Since dawn on Saturday, 10 Palestinians, including a cameraman for Al Jazeera and 4 from the same family, have been killed and others injured in a series of Israeli attacks targeting different areas of the Gaza Strip, according to data, medical sources and eyewitnesses inside the occupied territories.
Sources in the central Gaza Strip reported that an Israeli drone targeted a house in al-Bureij refugee camp, killing two Palestinians, one of whom was Al Jazeera cameraman Mubasher Ahmed Washah, and wounding a third.
In Gaza City in the north, four people from one family (father, mother and two girls, aged 6 and 13) were killed after shelling by an Israeli drone targeted their home near the aviation junction, according to medical sources, noting that a 62-year-old Palestinian was killed by Israeli naval gunfire that targeted tents for displaced people on Al-Bahr Street in the west of the city.
Medical sources said that a 38-year-old Palestinian was killed and a woman was moderately wounded in shelling that targeted passers-by near the Saftawi roundabout, while 5 others were injured in a similar shelling on a civilian gathering in the Sheikh Radwan neighborhood, in addition to the killing of a woman in Beit Lahiya.
In Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip, shelling from an Israeli march targeting a gathering in the west of the city killed a Palestinian and wounded seven others, while two boys were moderately wounded by Israeli army fire near the Abu Hamid roundabout east of the city.
Al Jazeera announces that the death toll of its cadres in Gaza has risen to 13
Al Jazeera confirmed the death of Al Jazeera Mubasher cameraman Ahmed Samir Washah on Saturday, June 20, 2026 , following an Israeli airstrike that targeted a residential house in Al-Bureij refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip, raising the number of journalists and workers of Al Jazeera who have been killed in the Gaza Strip since the start of the war to 13, according to the network's statistics.
Al Jazeera strongly condemned the crime, calling it a "flagrant violation of international laws" and a continuation of a systematic policy targeting journalists aimed at obliterating the truth and preventing the reporting of what is happening on the ground.
Washah's death comes about two and a half months after the family lost his brother, Mohammed Washah, a correspondent for Al Jazeera Mubasher, who was assassinated by an Israeli drone on April 8 by targeting his car on the coastal road of al-Rashid in Gaza.
In an initial comment, an IDF spokesperson claimed that the targeting was allegedly a "Hamas operative," without providing immediate evidence to support this claim, the same accusation made by Israel when his brother Mohammed was assassinated.
Israel has killed 262 journalists in Gaza since October 2023
The total number of journalists and media workers killed by Israel has risen to 262 since the start of the war on Gaza in October 2023, according to the official statistics issued by the government media office and the Palestinian Journalists Syndicate.
According to the documented data, 262 journalists were killed, including 261 in the Gaza Strip and one in the West Bank. More than 420 journalists were also injured in various ways, some of which resulted in amputations and permanent disabilities as a result of direct targeting during field coverage.
About 50 journalists have been arrested and detained in harsh conditions inside IDF camps, while three journalists are still missing without knowing their fate.
International organizations, including the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), say the death toll in Gaza is the highest and fastest rising in the history of global journalism since the documentation of violations against media workers in conflict zones began, reflecting the unprecedented risks to journalists while covering the ongoing war.
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