The official Wafa news agency said that among those killed in the raid were Hossam al-Masry and Mohammed Salama, cameramen for Palestine TV and Al Jazeera, respectively, as well as journalists Mariam Abu Daqqa and Moaz Abu Taha.

Several journalists were also injured, while members of ambulance and Civil Defense teams lost their lives while evacuating the injured, he stressed.

The Civil Defense Directorate reported that one of its crew members died and seven others were injured as a result of the bombing.

The Safa news agency reported that one citizen was killed in another Israeli raid in the Al-Balad area and another in the city of Khan Yunis.

Three more were killed in an attack on a group of civilians near the Faculty of Science and Technology, south of the same town.

It added that one citizen was killed and seven others were wounded as a result of a raid on a tent for displaced persons in the area of Al-Mawasi.

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