Two Al Jazeera journalists were seriously injured today by an Israeli airstrike in the city of Rafah, as reported by the Qatar network.

According to Al Jazeera, correspondent Ismail Abu Omar and his cameraman Ahmed Mataar were injured by a strike in Rafah, in the south of the Gaza Strip. Asked by Agence France-Presse, the Israeli army has not yet made any comment.

Ismail Abu Omar’s right leg was amputated and doctors are trying to save the left one, the network announced, broadcasting images of the journalist surrounded by doctors in an operating room explaining that his life was in danger. In Ahmed Mattar’s case, he was seriously injured, Al Jazeera added.

According to the Hamas Health Ministry, the two journalists were hit by an airstrike in Rafah, where they are being held at this time 1.3 million Palestinianswith the greater majority having been displaced by the raids and fighting in the rest of the region.

The Qatari network has been hit hard by the ongoing war in Gaza. In early January, two Al Jazeera journalists, Hamza Dakhtouh and Mustafa Thuraya, were killed in a hit to their car in the southern part of the Palestinian enclave.

The Israeli military said “the two piloted drones that posed a direct threat to Israeli troops” and described them as “terrorist agents”, claims denied by their family and employer. In December, cameraman Samer Abu Dakka was killed by an Israeli strike.

The head of the network’s Gaza office, Wael Dakhtouh, father of Hamza Dakhtouh, also lost his wife, two children and a grandson in a strike in the Nuseirat refugee camp (center) in late October.

Wael Dahdouh, 53, who has become an icon of Palestinian journalists covering the war in Gaza, himself injured in the Israel/Hamas war, left the region in mid-January for Qatar, where he underwent surgery.

At least 85 journalists and media professionals, the vast majority of them Palestinians, have been killed since the Israel/Hamas war broke out on October 7, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPI).