Israeli military seems to alter tack on strike that killed Gaza journalists | Israel Warfare on Gaza Information

Al Jazeera journalists Hamza Dahdouh and Mustafa Thuraya had been killed in a focused strike on their automobile in Khan Younis.

The Israeli army has seemingly walked again its justification for focusing on a automobile in Gaza final week, killing two Al Jazeera journalists, United States broadcaster NBC reported.

Hamza Dahdouh, the eldest son of Al Jazeera’s Gaza bureau chief Wael Dahdouh, was killed in an Israeli missile strike on Sunday in Khan Younis, southern Gaza. Journalist Mustafa Thuraya was additionally killed within the assault, whereas a 3rd passenger, journalist Hazem Rajab, was severely injured.

On the time of the assault, the Israeli military mentioned it was focusing on a “terrorist” within the automobile.

It confirmed in a press release {that a} army plane “recognized and struck a terrorist who operated an plane that posed a risk to (Israeli) troops,” including that “we’re conscious of the stories that in the course of the strike, two different suspects who had been in the identical automobile because the terrorist had been additionally hit”.

Nonetheless, when requested if Israel had any proof {that a} so-called terrorist was current within the automobile, military spokesperson Daniel Hagari described the incident to NBC as “unlucky”, and mentioned that an investigation was persevering with to find out what occurred.

“Each journalist who dies, it’s unlucky,” Hagari advised NBC. “We perceive they had been placing a drone, utilizing a drone. And utilizing a drone in a warfare zone, it’s an issue. It appears just like the terrorists,” including that Hamas makes use of drones to gather intel on Israeli forces.

“We are going to examine this incident and we are going to present the information,” Hagari mentioned.

Calling for an impartial investigation into the strike, the Committee to Defend Journalists (CPJ) mentioned: “Israel first mentioned it lethally focused a automobile carrying journalists in Gaza as a result of there was a terrorist within the automobile. Now it says that the use by a journalist of a drone made it ‘seem like’ they had been terrorists.”

CPJ’s Center East and North Africa Programme Coordinator Sherif Mansour mentioned: “Focusing on of civilians is illegitimate. Journalists use tools like cameras and drones for his or her work. It doesn’t make them terrorists and will definitely not make them targets.”

Al Jazeera correspondents mentioned that the automobile with the journalists was hit as they had been attempting to interview civilians displaced by earlier bombings.

The Al Jazeera Media Community strongly condemned the assault saying the “assassinations” of Dahdouh and Thuraya reaffirmed the necessity “to take quick mandatory authorized measures in opposition to the (Israeli) occupation forces to make sure that there isn’t a impunity”.

In October, Dahdouh’s mom, brother, sister and nephew had been killed in an Israeli air raid. His father Wael was injured in a drone assault final month, which killed Al Jazeera journalist and cameraman Samer Abudaqa.

Greater than 100 journalists have been killed in Gaza because the present battle broke out on October 7. Extra journalists have been killed in three months of Israel’s warfare on Gaza than in all of World Warfare II or the Vietnam Warfare.

CPJ knowledge exhibits that extra journalists had been killed within the first 10 weeks of the battle than have ever been killed in a single nation over a whole yr.