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An Israeli strike killed five Palestinian journalists outside a hospital in the Gaza Strip overnight, the Israelie health ministry said early on St Stephen's Day.
The Israeli military said it had targeted a group of militants.
The strike hit a car outside the Al-Awda Hospital in the built-up Nuseirat refugee camp in the central part of the territory.
The journalists had been working for the local Quds News Network, which also reported the strike.
The military said it targeted a group of fighters from Islamic Jihad, a militant group allied with Hamas, whose October 7 2023 attack in southern Israel ignited the war.
The Committee to Protect Journalists says more than 130 Palestinian reporters have been killed since the start of the war. Israel has not allowed foreign reporters to enter Gaza except on military embeds.
The war began when Hamas-led militants stormed across the border in a surprise attack on nearby army bases and farming communities.
They killed some 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and abducted around 250.
Some 100 hostages are still inside Gaza, at least a third of whom are believed to be dead.
Israel’s air and ground offensive has killed more than 45,000 Palestinians, according to the Health Ministry.
It says more than half the fatalities have been women and children but does not say how many of the dead were fighters.
The offensive has caused widespread destruction and driven around 90% of the population of 2.3 million from their homes.
Hundreds of thousands are packed into squalid tent camps along the coast, with little protection from the cold, wet winter.