JERUSALEM, DEC 26 : The Israel Defence Forces (IDF) said it had struck a vehicle belonging to members of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad movement near the Nuseirat refugee camp in the Gaza Strip.

Earlier, Al Jazeera reported that five journalists from the Palestinian news network Quds were killed when Israeli forces struck their van while they were filming a story in the Nuseirat refugee camp.

“Overnight, with the direction of IDF intelligence, the IAF [Israeli Air Force] conducted a precise strike on a vehicle with an Islamic Jihad terrorist cell inside in the area of Nuseirat,” the IDF said in a statement on Telegram.