Al-Jazeera confirm reporter, cameraman killed in Israel strike near house of slain Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh

Qatari broadcaster al-Jazeera TV says its reporter Ismail al-Ghoul and cameraman Ramy El Rify were killed in an Israeli strike on Gaza City.

Anas al-Sharif, a colleague of the two dead journalists, told al-Jazeera that Ghoul and Rifi were on a mission to film near the house of Ismail Haniyeh, the Hamas chief killed in Iran earlier on Wednesday in an attack the movement blamed on Israel.

The Hamas-run Gaza government media office said the new deaths raised to 165 the number of Palestinian journalists who were killed by Israeli fire since October 7.

United Nations spokesman Stéphane Dujarric called for a full investigation and accountability for the killings of the al-Jazeera reporters and others, saying that journalists everywhere need to be protected.

with AP