{"id":503019,"date":"2026-06-20T20:36:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-20T20:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/503019\/"},"modified":"2026-06-20T20:36:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-20T20:36:08","slug":"al-jazeera-cameraman-ahmed-wishah-killed-in-israeli-strike-on-gaza-gaza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/503019\/","title":{"rendered":"Al Jazeera cameraman Ahmed Wishah killed in Israeli strike on Gaza | Gaza"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Qatar-based news network <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/al-jazeera\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" data-component=\"auto-linked-tag\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Al Jazeera<\/a> says one of its journalists was killed by an Israeli strike in Gaza on Saturday, becoming one of the at least 260 Palestinian journalists to have been killed since Israel\u2019s war on Gaza began in October 2023.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Ahmed Wishah, a cameraman for the network, was killed in a strike targeting a house in the Bureij refugee camp in central <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/gaza\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" data-component=\"auto-linked-tag\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Gaza<\/a>, the broadcaster said on its website.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Al Jazeera said it \u201cstrongly condemns the heinous crime\u201d, adding: \u201cThis constitutes a new and flagrant violation of all international laws and norms, and reflects a continued systematic policy of targeting journalists and silencing the voice of truth.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Ahmed\u2019s brother Mohammed was killed on 8 April this year by Israeli shelling when he was travelling in his vehicle, Palestinian civil defence authorities said at the time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Following Ahmed\u2019s death, the Israeli military said it had carried out the strike but said Wishah was a \u201cHamas terrorist\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">\u201cThe IDF (Israel Defense Forces) confirms it carried out a strike on Ahmed Wishah, who was a Hamas terrorist,\u201d a military spokesperson told AFP.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">The spokesperson did not immediately provide evidence to support the military\u2019s claim about Wishah, but said \u201cthere will be a statement issued with further details\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">At least 260 Palestinian journalists have been killed since Israel\u2019s war on Gaza began in October 2023, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Qatar-based news network Al Jazeera says one of its journalists was killed by an Israeli strike in Gaza&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":503020,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[85,46,43],"class_list":["post-503019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503019","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=503019"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503019\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/503020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=503019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=503019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=503019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}