An Israeli airstrike on a car near Rafah in southern Gaza killed two Palestinian journalists on Sunday, according to Gaza health officials and the journalists’ union.

Hamza Al-Dahdouh and Mustafa Turaiya were both freelancers. Al-Dahdouh worked freelance for Al Jazeera and was the son of Wael Al-Dahdouh, the Qatari TV station’s chief correspondent in Gaza. A third freelancer, Hazem Rajab, was injured.

The Al Jazeera media network condemned the killing of the two and said it was a deliberate attack.

“We call on the International Criminal Court, governments and human rights organizations and the United Nations to hold Israel accountable for its heinous crimes and demand an end to attacks and killings of journalists,” the network said in a statement.

The Israel Defense Forces did not immediately respond to requests for comment on the attack or the television network’s statement that the two journalists were intentional targets.

In a December 16 statement in response to the death of yet another Al Jazeera journalist in Gaza, the Israeli military said that “the IDF has never and will never deliberately attack journalists.”

The war between Israel and Hamas, which began on October 7, claimed the lives of several journalists. The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), an international watchdog, said 77 journalists and media workers – 70 Palestinians, four Israelis and three Lebanese – had been killed as of Saturday.