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Another attack hit a Civil Defense building in the Nuseirat urban refugee camp in central Gaza.
Civil Defense spokesman Mahmoud Basal said the attack killed the directors of its Nuseirat and Sheikh Radwan centers along with two volunteers, one of whom he named as Ahmad Baker al-Louh. Five other people were injured, three of them seriously, he added.
“The Israeli occupation has once again demonstrated to the world that there is no protection for humanitarian workers in Gaza and no compliance with international humanitarian law,” he said, adding that 94 Civil Defense workers had been killed since the start of the war.
Ahmad al-Louh was a cameraman for the Qatar-based Al Jazeera network, which strongly condemned what it called Israel’s “targeted killing” of its journalist.
He said Louh had been covering a Civil Defense rescue operation following an earlier attack on Sunday and that it came “just days after the attack on his house”.
“The network calls on all human rights and media organizations to condemn the systematic murder of journalists in cold blood by the Israeli occupation, the evasion of responsibilities under international humanitarian law, and to bring to justice the perpetrators of this heinous crime brought to justice,” a statement said.
The IDF said the Civil Defense building was used by “terrorists to plan and carry out an imminent terrorist attack against IDF troops.”
“Among the terrorists eliminated in the attack was Islamic Jihad terrorist Ahmad Bakr al-Louh, who previously served as a platoon commander in the Islamic Jihad Central Camps Brigade,” he alleged, without providing any evidence.
Al Jazeera did not comment on the Israeli allegation, but Louh’s cousin, Mahmoud, told the Associated Press, external: “We were stunned by the Israeli declaration of occupation.”
“These claims are lies and misleading to cover up this crime,” he added.
The Committee to Protect Journalists says at least 137 journalists and media workers have been killed in Gaza, the occupied West Bank, Israel and Lebanon since the war began.
