Israel kills five Al Jazeera journalists in Gaza strike

Five Al Jazeera journalists have been killed in an Israeli strike near Gaza City's Al-Shifa Hospital, Al Jazeera has said.

The broadcaster’s correspondents Anas al-Sharif and Mohammed Qreiqeh, alongside cameramen Ibrahim Zaher, Mohammed Noufal and Moamen Aliwa were in a tent for journalists at the hospital's main gate when it was struck, Al Jazeera said.

The "targeted assassination" on Sunday was "yet another blatant and premeditated attack on press freedom", it said. Shortly after the strike, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) confirmed that it had targeted Anas al-Sharif, writing in a Telegram post that he had "served as the head of a terrorist cell in Hamas".

The IDF did not mention any of the other journalists who were killed.

In total, seven people died in the strike, Al Jazeera reports. Its managing editor, Mohamed Moawad, told the BBC that al-Sharif was an accredited journalist who was "the only voice" for the world to know what was happening in the Gaza Strip.