By Servet Gunerigok
WASHINGTON (AA) - The UN expressed its condolences Monday to Anadolu cameraman Mohamed Alaloul, who lost his four children and three siblings in an Israeli airstrike over the weekend on the Al-Maghazi refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip.
"We extend our condolences to your colleague, who is not the first journalist, sadly, to have lost loved ones in Gaza," said spokesman Stephane Dujarric.
He was responding to an Anadolu reporter who asked whether UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres is planning to establish a commission of inquiry or fact-finding mission for serious violations of international humanitarian law in Gaza.
"The Secretary-General, in order to launch an investigation, would need a mandate from a legislative body in the UN," said Dujarric.
More than 50 Palestinians were killed in an Israeli airstrike on the Al-Maghazi refugee camp at midnight local time Saturday.
According to the Committee to Protect Journalists, 36 journalists and media workers have been confirmed dead in the conflict between Israel and the Palestinian group Hamas. Thirty-one are Palestinians, four are Israelis and one is Lebanese.
*Serife Cetin in New York contributed to this story