According to a Palestinian television channel, five of its journalists were murdered in an Israeli strike in the central Gaza Strip.
They were in a Quds Today van parked outside al-Awda hospital, where one of the journalists’ wives was due to give birth, in the central Nuseirat refugee camp.
The station shared a video of what it claimed was a flaming truck with “press” signs on the back doors.
The Israeli Air Force stated that it attacked “in a targeted manner and with intelligence guidance” a vehicle carrying members of the armed group Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ). It said that precautions had been taken to reduce civilian casualties.
Following last year’s Hamas onslaught, the Israeli military started air strikes and a ground offensive in the Gaza Strip. About 1,200 people were killed in the attack and another 251 taken back to Gaza as hostages.
More than 45,000 Palestinians have been killed in Israel’s offensive, Gaza’s health ministry says. Almost two million people – 90% of the population – have been displaced, according to the UN.
Hamas said that “new conditions” imposed by the Israeli government were causing the deal to be delayed.
Benjamin Netanyahu, the prime minister of Israel, claimed the organization was breaking agreements already made over a potential truce.
Following hopeful signals, the most recent pronouncements represent a significant shift in tone on all sides.
The family was taking refuge in the al-Mawasi region on the shore of Gaza, a strip of territory that has been struck by airstrikes but has been declared a humanitarian zone by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF).
Two other infants, one three days old and the other one a month old, were brought in during the last 48 hours after succumbing to hypothermia, according to Ahmed al-Farra, the pediatrics head.
With Israel and Hamas blaming one another, hopes of recent progress toward a truce have started to wane.
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