The Gaza News Agency and Reporters Without Borders say there is evidence to suggest it was a targeted attack.
Three journalists were injured, one seriously, in an Israeli attack on the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza. Authorities in the besieged area said it was a targeted attack.
Turkish broadcaster TRT journalist Sami Shehade was injured in Friday's attack and had his leg amputated, the station said. TRT Arabic correspondent Sami Berhum was also injured.
“TRT Arabi team vehicle” [TRT’s Arabic-language channel] “We were preparing to broadcast from the Nuseirat camp… which became the target of an Israeli attack,” the broadcaster said.
TRT director-general Zahid Sobashi called the attack an “Israeli atrocity” and said it exceeded “all moral, legal and humanitarian limits.”
“We are far from the danger zone,” Shehadeh told AFP reporters as he lay on the floor of al-Aqsa hospital in Deir el-Balah, Gaza city. When the attack happened, I was surrounded by people and even journalists. ”
“We were firing when the attack targeted us. I don't know if it was a missile or a tank. I could see my leg being severed,” he said. said.
“Even though I was wearing a news vest and helmet, it was obvious to the visually impaired that I was a journalist.”
'Journalists were deliberately targeted'
Gaza's media office condemned the Israeli attack on a vehicle carrying three journalists.
“We strongly condemn the continued targeting of journalists and media crews by Israeli occupation forces,” the group said in a statement.
It added that Israeli forces “deliberately kill and injure journalists, not only to conceal the truth, but also to frighten and intimidate them and prevent them from carrying out their duties.”
Jonathan Dugger, head of Reporters Without Borders (RSF)'s Middle East desk, said reports of journalists being attacked, injured or killed by Israel in Gaza had become “very common”.
“I've had to report almost every day for the past six months. This is just the latest attack, it's egregious and it's unacceptable,” he told Al Jazeera.
Mr Dugger said the attack was “unprovoked” and there was sufficient evidence to prove the vehicle was targeted.
More than 100 journalists have been killed by Israel in the Gaza Strip in the past six months, he said.
He went on to say that this “genocide must stop” and called on the international community to “intensify pressure” on Israel.
“Israel carried out this massacre deliberately and deliberately, with targeted targets,” Falettin Altun, head of communications at the Turkish presidential palace, told reporters in Ankara.
Altun reported that Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas discussed the attack in a telephone conversation.
“No matter what happens, we will remain firm against Israel's barbaric attack on Gaza, and Israel will pay the price for this atrocity,” Altun reported. It is said that
At least 70 people injured in the Israeli attack on the Nuseirat camp in central Gaza have been taken to the al-Awda hospital in the camp since Friday morning, local sources said.
More than 33,600 people have been killed in Israeli attacks on Gaza since the war began on October 7.