The Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) said on Thursday that the five people killed in a recent airstrike in Gaza were Islamic Jihad terrorists posing as journalists, rejecting prior reports claiming they were in fact press workers.
The IDF added in a social media publication that the people were part of a "terrorist cell" and that it confirmed their true operations from "multiple sources." "One key source was a list of Islamic Jihad operatives discovered by the IDF during operations in Gaza. This list explicitly identified four of the eliminated individuals as members of the Islamic Jihad terrorist organization."
