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Al Jazeera Says Two Gaza Journalists Killed In Israeli Strike

Crowds examine the car in which two journalists, Mustafa Thuria, a video stringer for AFP news agency, and Hamza Wael Dahdouh, a journalist with Al Jazeera television network, were killed in an air strike on Rafah blamed by Hamas on Israel (Credit: AFP)

Al Jazeera on Sunday said two of its Palestinian journalists in the Gaza Strip were killed in an Israeli strike on their car, in what the Qatar-based media network claimed was a "targeted killing".

Hamza Wael Dahdouh and Mustafa Thuria, who also worked as a video stringer for AFP and other news organisations, were killed while they were "on their way to carry out their duty" for the channel in the Gaza Strip, the network said. A third journalist travelling with them, Hazem Rajab, was seriously injured.

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