Egypt demands clarification from the occupation after the assassination of journalists working with it in Gaza

Sources reported that Cairo requested clarifications from the occupying state regarding the bombing of Palestinians working with the Egyptian Committee for the Reconstruction of the Gaza Strip, while the Israeli occupation army claimed it bombed drone operators who “posed a threat to its forces.”

According to sources, “Egypt demanded explanations from Israel regarding the incident that occurred in the central Gaza Strip.”

It added: “Egypt is determined to understand why the Israeli Air Force bombed a car carrying Gazans working for the Egyptian Committee for the Reconstruction of the Gaza Strip.”

Earlier on Wednesday, the Islamic Resistance Movement “Hamas” said that “the targeting by the Zionist occupation aircraft of a car belonging to the Egyptian Relief Committee in the central Gaza Strip this evening, and the martyrdom of 3 photojournalists who were on board while performing their media duty in the shelter camps in the central Gaza Strip, constitutes a described war crime.”

The committee referred to is a non-governmental Egyptian relief committee that has been active during the war of extermination, overseeing the implementation of relief projects for residents and displaced persons, and the restoration of infrastructure in the Strip, in cooperation with governmental bodies and local institutions, according to Palestinian media and local sources in the Strip.

In contrast, the occupation army claimed, in an attempt to justify its bombing, that its forces detected “a number of suspects operating a drone belonging to the Hamas movement in the central Gaza Strip, in an area that poses a threat to the forces.”

It added: “Immediately after detecting the suspects, and due to the danger posed by the drone, the Israeli army forces specifically attacked the suspects who were operating it.”

Earlier on Wednesday, the Ministry of Health in Gaza said that the Israeli army assassinated 11 Palestinians and injured 6 others, as a result of raids and shelling carried out by the army on several areas in the Gaza Strip.

The Director General of the Ministry of Health in the Gaza Strip, Munir Al-Barsh, stated that among the martyrs were three Palestinian journalists.

On December 2nd last year, the government media office announced that the number of martyred journalists had risen to 257, since the beginning of the genocide war on the Gaza Strip” on October 8, 2023, and the Israeli extermination since October 8, 2023, which lasted two years, left more than 71,000 martyrs and over 171,000 injured Palestinians, most of them children and women, and destruction that affected 90 percent of the civilian infrastructure.

Since the ceasefire on October 10, 2025, the occupation has killed 483 Palestinians and injured 1287 others, and severely restricts the entry of food, shelter, and medical supplies into Gaza, where about 2.4 million Palestinians live in tragic conditions.