Hamas and rescuers have said an Israeli strike on southern Gaza killed one journalist and wounded nine others, while the Israeli military reported it targeted a fighter posing as a reporter, AFP reports.

An air strike hit a tent used by journalists in the southern Gaza city of Khan Younis, killing two people, said civil defence spokesman Mahmud Bassal. Nine journalists were wounded in the strike, Bassal added.

The Hamas government media office said journalist Hilmi al-Faqaawi, who worked for a local news agency, was killed in the attack.

The Israeli military meanwhile said its forces had “struck the Hamas terrorist Hassan Abdel Fattah Mohammed Aslih in the Khan Younis area” overnight, without specifying whether he had been killed.

The military claimed Aslih operated “under the guise of a journalist and owns a press company.”