Funeral for five journalists killed in Israeli airstrike
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A funeral has taken place for five journalists killed in an Israeli strike outside a hospital in Gaza, according to its health ministry. They were among at least 10 people reportedly killed in Israeli strikes in Gaza, while a three-week-old baby girl froze to death while staying in a tent camp.
An Israeli airstrike on a house in Gaza City's Zeitoun neighbourhood killed five people and wounded 20, medics said, warning the number of deaths could rise as many people remained trapped under the rubble. Separately, five journalists working for the Al-Quds Al-Youm television channel were killed when their vehicle was hit in the vicinity of Al-Awda hospital in Nuseirat in central Gaza, the enclave's Hamas-run health authorities said.
The vehicle was marked as a media van and was used by journalists to report from inside the hospital and Nuseirat camp. The Israel Defence Forces said its aircraft attacked the vehicle in a "targeted manner", adding members of the Islamic Jihad militant group were inside.
They have not yet commented on the strike in Gaza City's Zeitoun area. The Committee to Protect Journalists says more than 130 Palestinian reporters have been killed since the start of the war, while Israel has not allowed foreign reporters to enter Gaza except on military embeds.
Israel has been waging a war on Gaza since 7 October last year, when Hamas, the militant group in control of the besieged enclave, killed 1,200 people in southern Israel and kidnapped more than 250 others - an unprecedented attack which marked the bloodiest day in Israeli history.
