Another attack hit a civil defense building in the Nusseyrat refugee camp in central Gaza.
Civil Defense spokesman Mahmoud Basal said the airstrike killed Nuseirat, the center’s director, Sheikh Radwan, and two volunteers, one of whom was Ahmad Baker al-Louh. He said he named it. He added that five people were injured, three of whom were in critical condition.
“The Israeli occupation has once again shown the world that there is no protection for humanitarian workers in the Gaza Strip and that international humanitarian law is not respected,” he said, adding that 94 civil defense workers have been killed since the outbreak of war.
Ahmad al-Louh, a cameraman for the Qatar-based Al Jazeera network, strongly condemned what he called Israel’s “targeted killing” of the journalist.
Lu has been covering the Civil Defense rescue operation since last Sunday’s airstrike, which he said came “just days after his house was targeted.”
“The network calls on all human rights and media organizations to condemn the Israeli occupation forces’ callous massacre of journalists and their evasion of responsibility under international humanitarian law, and to punish the perpetrators of this heinous crime,” the statement said.
The IDF said the civil defense building was used by “terrorists to plan and carry out imminent terrorist attacks against IDF forces.”
“Among the terrorists eliminated in the airstrikes was Ahmad Bakr Allukh, an Islamic Jihad terrorist who previously served as a platoon leader in the Islamic Jihad Central Camp Brigade,” he claimed, without providing any evidence.
Al Jazeera did not comment on Israel’s claims, but Lu’s cousin Mahmoud told The Associated Press., external: “We are surprised by Israel’s occupation statement.”
He added, “These claims are lies and misleading to cover up the crime.”
The Committee to Protect Journalists said at least 137 journalists and journalists have been killed in Gaza, the West Bank, Israel and Lebanon since the war began.
