The Al Jazeera media company said in a Sunday statement that five of its journalists -- including correspondent Anas Al Sharif -- were killed in an Israeli airstrike.

Israel’s military has targeted an Al Jazeera correspondent with an airstrike, killing him, another of its journalists and at least six other people sheltering outside a Gaza City hospital.

An Israeli strike on a hospital near Gaza City killed four Al Jazeera journalists, the network said, including one whom Israel had accused of being a Hamas fighter posing as a reporter. Israel said it had targeted Anas al-Sharif for being “the head of a terrorist cell” responsible for attacking Israeli civilians.