UAV event in Palestine on Sun 7th January 2024

The IDF responds to reports of the deaths of two Palestinian journalists in an Israeli airstrike the Gaza Strip earlier today, saying the pair, working for Al Jazeera, were in a vehicle with a terror operative who was operating a drone. In response to a query on the matter, the IDF Spokesperson's Unit tells The Times of Israel that a military aircraft "identified and struck a terrorist who operated an aircraft in a way that put IDF forces at risk." The IDF says it is aware of "the claim that during the strike two other suspects who were with the terrorist in the same vehicle were hit." Hamza Wael Dahdouh, the son of Al Jazeera's Gaza correspondent Wael Al-Dahdouh, and Mustafa Thuria, a video stringer for AFP who was also working for Qatar-based television, both died in the strike in southern Gaza's Rafah.