A funeral was held for five Al Jazeera journalists who were targeted by an Israeli airstrike in Gaza on Sunday night, as the UN said the killings were a "grave breach of international law".

Correspondents Anas Al-Sharif and Mohammed Qreiqeh, camera operators Ibrahim Zaher and Moamen Aliwa, and their assistant Mohammed Noufal, died after a strike on a tent near Al Shifa Hospital in Gaza.

The Israeli military defended the attack, claiming the most prominent of the group, Sharif, was the head of a Hamas terrorist cell and only "posed as a journalist" - claims consistently denied by Sharif himself, Al Jazeera and the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ).

A sixth journalist - a freelancer called Mohammad al Khaldi - was also killed in the strike, medics at the Al Shifa Hospital told Re

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