Heavy Israeli strikes pounded Gaza on Saturday, with attacks targeting an Al Jazeera journalist and killing women and children, as the IDF continues its constant violations of the US-backed ceasefire deal.
An Israeli strike on a home in central Gaza killed three men, including Ahmed Wishah, a 25-year-old cameraman for Al Jazeera, marking the 12th Al Jazeera journalist killed by Israel in Gaza, according to the Qatar-based outlet.
Wishah was the brother of Mohammed Wishah, an Al Jazeera correspondent who was also killed by the IDF in Gaza when an Israeli strike hit a car he was traveling in back in April. According to the Committee to Protect Journalists, the IDF has now killed 260 journalists in Gaza.
The Israeli military acknowledged targeting Wishah on Saturday, claiming, without providing any evidence, that he was a “Hamas terrorist,” a smear strongly rejected by Al Jazeera as “baseless.” The outlet said that the Israeli military “relentlessly spreads false allegations” against its employees to “justify its crimes against Al Jazeera journalists and cameramen in Gaza.”
The Quds News Network reported that Israeli attacks in Gaza on Saturday killed a total of 10 Palestinians, including two girls, a four-year-old and a fourteen-year-old, and their father, who were massacred while sleeping in their home in Gaza City. According to Al Jazeera, the mother of the girls was injured in the attack and later died of her wounds. Another woman was reported killed by Israeli fire in Beit Lahia, northern Gaza.
Israeli attacks continued on Sunday with the Palestinian news agency WAFA reporting that two Palestinians, including a girl, were killed by an Israeli drone strike west of Khan Younis in southern Gaza. WAFA also reported that a drone targeted the courtyard of a school in al-Shati, a refugee camp on the coast west of Gaza City, injuring several people.
Gaza’s Health Ministry said in its daily update on Sunday that since the so-called ceasefire deal was signed in October 2025, the IDF has killed at least 1,021 Palestinians in Gaza and wounded 3,249.
