Turkish Broadcaster Says Reporter Badly Wounded in Gaza

"The vehicle of a team from TRT Arabi (TRT's Arabic-language channel) that was preparing to broadcast from the Nuseirat camp... was targeted by an Israeli army strike," the broadcaster said.

"Sami Shahada, a freelance cameraman, was badly wounded," it added.

TRT's chief Zahid Sobacı said Shahada had "lost a foot and is currently in surgery", calling the attack "Israeli brutality".

The channel reported that other journalists were wounded in the central Gaza refugee camp.

"To keep its massacres hidden, Israel targets journalists and undermines press freedom. The international community's indifference to these attacks encourages Israel,"  Türkiye's Communications Director Fahrettin Altun said on X.

"The international community must take action against the atrocities taking place before our eyes," he continued.

"Those who remain silent against these systematic attacks are complicit in Israel's crime of genocide."

A tally from the New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) numbers at 95 the number of media workers killed in fighting since Oct. 7, 90 of them Palestinians.

At least 16 more have been wounded.

Israel waged its brutal war on besieged Gaza on October 7 after Hamas carried out an unprecedented operation against the occupying entity in retaliation for its intensified atrocities against the Palestinian people.

Israel has imposed a complete siege on the densely populated territory, cutting off fuel, electricity, food, and water to the more than two million Palestinians living there.

More than 33,600 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza since the war began.