An apartment. A refugee camp. A tent colony in the south. Three strikes, one morning, six lives gone. Ahmed Wishah was filming a war that had already taken his brother. On Saturday, it took him too.
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Multiple Israeli airstrikes across Gaza on Saturday killed at least six people. Among the dead were two young sisters, a press cameraman, and others in a tent camp and on a street in Gaza City. Palestinian health officials confirmed the toll. The strikes hit different parts of the territory within the same day.
The first strike came in the early hours of Saturday. It hit an apartment in Gaza City at around 2 am, according to the Palestinian Health Ministry. An AP reporter at the scene found rubble and blood-stained concrete.
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Two sisters died in that strike. Zina, aged four, and Lana, aged 14, were brought to Shifa Hospital’s morgue, where family members gathered around their bodies. The girls’ full names have been reported elsewhere as Zeina and Lana Safadi. Their funeral was held in Gaza City the same day.
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A separate strike hit a house in the Bureij refugee camp in central Gaza without any prior warning. Three people died in that attack, including Al Jazeera cameraman Ahmed Wishah. Al-Aqsa hospital confirmed the deaths. Al Jazeera later confirmed Wishah’s death as well.
Wishah’s death carries added weight because of his family’s recent loss. His brother Mohamed, also a journalist with Al Jazeera, was killed in another Israeli strike in April 2026. The two brothers were both working for the same broadcaster in the same conflict zone when they died.
The Israeli military released a statement regarding Wishah’s killing. It called the strike a “precise” operation and claimed Wishah had been a member of Hamas’s military wing and had posed a threat to Israeli troops in the area. Al Jazeera has not accepted that characterisation. Israel’s standard position is that its forces target Hamas operatives and other armed individuals who endanger soldiers.
A third strike on Saturday struck a group of people in Muwasi, a large tent camp in southern Gaza. One person was killed and eight others were wounded. Nasser hospital received those casualties.
A fourth incident saw a strike hit a group of people on a street in Gaza City, wounding at least four. Shifa hospital treated them.
Saturday’s strikes are part of a longer pattern. A ceasefire between Israel and Hamas was agreed in October, but Gaza has seen near-daily Israeli attacks since then. Those post-ceasefire strikes have killed over 1,000 Palestinians, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry.
The overall death toll from Israel’s military campaign in Gaza now stands at 73,018, including those killed after the ceasefire took effect, according to the Health Ministry. The ministry is run by medical staff and is widely considered credible by UN agencies. It does not separate civilian from militant deaths but notes that women and children account for roughly half of all fatalities.
Five Israeli soldiers have been killed since the truce began.
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