Israeli strike kills Palestinian reporter in Gaza: news agency

A Palestinian journalist was killed in an Israeli air strike in the Gaza Strip and another was wounded, the official Palestinian news agency reported Tuesday.

Mohammad Abu Hasira was the latest among dozens of journalists killed in the month-long war on Gaza.

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He "was killed in an Israeli bombing that targeted his house located near the fishermen's port west of Gaza City," WAFA news agency said.

WAFA reported that Abu Hasira "and 42 members of his family, including his sons and brothers" were killed in the strike.

The news press service in the Gaza Strip said the bombardment that killed Abu Hasira took place overnight between Sunday and Monday, but that his body was only found in the rubble on Tuesday.

On Thursday, a correspondent for the official Palestinian TV station was killed in an Israeli air strike in the southern Gaza Strip.

The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) said Monday that at least 37 journalists and media employees (32 Palestinians, four Israelis, one Lebanese citizen) had been killed since the start of the war.

More than 10,000 people have been killed in the Gaza Strip since Israel launched its unprecedented bombardment of the territory on 7 October, the day Hamas carried out a large-scale surprise attack on southern Israel, killing over 1,400 people and taking more than 200 others hostage.

The attack, Hamas says, came in retaliation for 17 years of Israeli blockade on Gaza and decades of occupation and aggression in the West Bank.