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Al Jazeera cameraman killed in Gaza months after his journalist brother died in a separate strike

Israeli strikes in central Gaza killed Al Jazeera cameraman Ahmed Wishah. The network reports he is the 12th of its media workers killed since October 2023. Wishah died months after his brother, also an Al Jazeera journalist, was killed in a separate strike.

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New reports confirm the identity of the killed cameraman and the death of his brother in a previous strike.

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  1. Al Jazeera cameraman Ahmed Wishah killed in Israeli strike in Gaza

    Israeli strikes in central Gaza killed Al Jazeera cameraman Ahmed Wishah. The network reports he is the 12th of its media workers killed since October 2023. Wishah died months after his brother, also an Al Jazeera journalist, was killed in a separate strike.

    What's confirmed:

    • Ahmed Wishah, a cameraman for Al Jazeera, was killed by an Israeli strike in central Gaza.
    • Wishah is the 12th Al Jazeera journalist killed in Gaza since October 2023.
    • Wishah's brother, also an Al Jazeera journalist, was killed in a separate Israeli strike months earlier.
    • At least 260 journalists have been killed since the war on Gaza began in October 2023.

    Still unconfirmed:

    • The IDF claims Ahmed Wishah was a Hamas sniper.
    • The IDF alleges Wishah's brother was a terror commander.
    • Al Jazeera describes the targeting of Wishah as deliberate.
    • Israeli strikes killed between 5 and 11 people in the latest violence, with some reports specifying two children.
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