Qatar-based broadcaster Al Jazeera has said that two of its journalists were severely wounded in an Israeli strike in Gaza’s southern city of Rafah, AFP reports.

Reporter Ismail Abu Omar’s life is at risk after he had his right leg amputated, while doctors are attempting to save the left one, Al Jazeera said quoting an emergency physician.

Cameraman Ahmad Matar was described by Al Jazeera as being in a “serious condition” after being targeted by an Israeli drone in northern Rafah.

The two journalists have been admitted to the European Hospital, on the southern edge of Khan Yunis city.

The health ministry in Gaza said the two were hit in a strike from an Israeli warplane in the Moraj area.

Hamas’s government media office said it “condemns in the strongest terms the Israeli occupation army’s targeting of the Al Jazeera crew”.