The Palestinian Al-Quds Al-Youm channel announced today, Thursday, that 5 of its employees were killed as a result of an Israeli air strike that targeted the channel’s external broadcast vehicle in the Nuseirat refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip.

The channel stated in a statement that the journalists were killed while performing their journalistic and humanitarian duty, describing this as a crime added to the series of occupation crimes against Palestinian journalists.

According to eyewitnesses, an Israeli plane bombed the external broadcast vehicle that was parked in front of Al-Awda Hospital in the Nuseirat camp, killing the five workers and completely burning the vehicle.