GAZA CITY: Al Jazeera mentioned on Monday (Mar 24) {that a} journalist working with considered one of its channels was killed in an Israeli strike on his car in northern Gaza.
“Hussam Shabat, a journalist collaborating with Al Jazeera Mubasher, was martyred in an Israeli strike concentrating on his automotive within the northern Gaza Strip,” an Al Jazeera alert mentioned, referring to the community’s reside Arabic channel.
The territory’s civil defence company confirmed his dying, in addition to that of Muhammad Mansour, an worker of the Islamic Jihad-affiliated Palestine As we speak TV.
The company mentioned Shabat was focused by an Israeli drone strike on his automotive on Monday afternoon close to a petroleum station within the northern city of Beit Lahia.
It mentioned Mansour was killed in a separate airstrike on his house within the southern metropolis of Khan Yunis within the morning.
Mahmud Bassal, spokesman for the civil defence company, mentioned airstrikes had focused greater than 10 vehicles in numerous areas of the Gaza Strip.