JAKARTA - Israel's attack on Gaza killed 53 Palestinians, including a journalist and rescue workers.
The Israeli military said air and ground forces north of the area killed dozens of militants.
Airstrikes hit a civilian emergency center in the Nuseirat market area of the central Gaza Strip, killing Ahmed Al-Louh, a video journalist for Al Jazeera TV, and five others, medics and fellow journalists said.
Another attack on houses in the Nuseirat camp killed five people, including children, according to medics.
TV networks said Al-Louh was working when he was killed and condemned Israel.
Reported by Reuters on Monday, December 16, the Israeli military said the attack targeted Islamic Hamas and Jihad militants operating from Gaza's Civil Defense Nuseirat office. They called Al-Louh a member of the Islamist Jihad militant group, without providing evidence.
Al Jazeera did not immediately comment on Israel's accusations but condemned Israel's previous claims that some of Qatar's network journalists who died in the Gaza war were members of the militant group.
Hamas media said the head of the civil emergency service in Nuseirat, Nedal Abu Hjayyer, was also killed.
The civilian emergency headquarters at the Nuseirat camp were hit when the crew arrived, they were working around the clock to serve the community, Zaki Emadeleen said of civil emergency services to reporters at the hospital.
Another air strike hit a group of people with ties to Hamas tasked with protecting aid trucks west of Gaza City.
11 people were killed in three Israeli airstrikes against houses in Gaza City, nine people were killed in the city of Beit Lahiya, Beit Hanoun, and the Greater Java camp when several houses were bombed or burned, and two people were killed in Rafah.
The Israeli military said three homes in the militant-owned Gaza City were planning an attack in the near future. These measures, according to Israel, were taken to reduce risks to civilians, including the use of appropriate ammunition and air surveillance.
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