Palestinian medics said an Israeli airstrike early Thursday killed five journalists in the Nuseirat camp in central Gaza.
The Al-Quds Today television channel, which is affiliated with the Islamic Jihad militant group, said in a statement the strike hit a broadcast truck and killed its five staffers.
The channel said the group was killed “while performing their journalistic and humanitarian duty.”
The Israeli military said its forces struck a vehicle containing Islamic Jihad terrorists in the Nuseirat area.
A baby girl froze to death in southern Gaza, the head of the enclave’s Ministry of Health said Wednesday. The newborn is at least the third baby to die in recent days in the cold.
The girl’s father, Mahmoud al-Faseeh, told The Associated Press that he had wrapped her in a blanket to try to keep her warm in the family’s tent in the al-Muwasi camp outside of Khan Younis.
“It was very cold overnight and, as adults, we couldn’t even take it. We couldn’t stay warm,” he said. Baby Sila woke up crying three times in the night. In the morning, “she was like wood,” he said. They rushed her to a field hospital, but she did not survive.
Sila “died from the cold,” her mother, Nariman, told CNN on Wednesday. “I was warming her and holding her. But … [we] didn’t have extra clothes for me to warm this girl.” The overnight low was 9 degrees Celsius, and their tent did not keep the wind out, Mahmood al-Faseeh said.
Dr. Ahmed Al-Farra, the children’s ward director at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, confirmed the baby died of hypothermia, as did two others, both less than 1 month old, in the past two days.
According to The Associated Press, Israel is allowing more aid into Gaza: an average of 130 trucks a day in December, up from about 70 in October and November. Before the war, about 500 trucks entered daily.
Hamas militants killed 1,200 people in their October 2023 attack on southern Israel and took about 250 others hostage. There are still around 100 hostages still being held in Gaza, though at least one-third are believed to be dead.
Israel’s counteroffensive in Gaza has killed more than 45,300 people, according to the Gaza Health Ministry. The ministry does not differentiate between civilians and fighters in its count.
The United States, United Kingdom, European Union and others have designated Hamas as a terror group.
Some information for this story came from The Associated Press, Agence France-Presse and Reuters.
