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DOHA: As family and colleagues mourned the killing of cameraman Ahmed Wishah in Gaza, Al Jazeera condemned Israeli accusations on Sunday that he was a ‘sniper operative’ of Palestinian group Hamas.
Israeli forces have killed more than 220 journalists since the war in Gaza erupted, according to the media rights group Reporters Without Borders.
In a statement, the Qatar-based media network condemned the “Israeli occupation army’s baseless accusations, which seek to justify its crimes against Al Jazeera journalists and cameramen in Gaza, most recently the killing of cameraman Ahmed Wishah”.
His death comes mere weeks after his brother, Mohammad Wishah, also an Al Jazeera journalist, was killed by Israel.
