Three Palestinian journalists were killed on early Tuesday in an Israeli air strike that hit a residential building near Gaza City's fishing port, a media union and an official said.
The journalists' syndicate announced ‘the martyrdom of three journalists in the Gaza Strip in the ongoing Israeli aggression’.
The head of Gaza's Hamas-run government's media office, Salameh Maarouf, identified the three as Said al-Taweel, Mohammed Sobboh and Hisham Nawajhah.
Israel imposed a total siege on the Gaza Strip on Tuesday and cut off the water supply as it kept bombing targets in the crowded Palestinian enclave in response to the Hamas surprise assault it has likened to the 9/11 attacks.
Reeling from the Islamist group’s unprecedented ground, air and sea attacks, Israel has counted over 900 dead and launched a withering barrage of strikes on Gaza that have killed 687 people there.
