The ministry said in an official statement earlier in the day that Nazar Alyan's house had come under fire, directly threatening his life and those of his wife and two children.
"We call on the Israeli authorities to do everything necessary to provide for the safety of the Russian correspondent and his family, as well as all the other media representatives located in the Gaza Strip in connection with the necessity of carrying out their professional duties," the statement said.
Alyan said that he, his family and the families of his brother and a friend were hiding in his kitchen after Israel began an attack on the town of Zahra in the south of the Gaza Strip.
"We have been hiding in the kitchen since 2:00 a.m. Fifteen people including eight children from three families," Alyan said.
The reporter said that he also called the Red Cross to ask for help in stopping the fire on his house. He said the organization replied that it could do nothing as the Israeli military said someone was shooting from the house.
"It seemed that we were safe in the kitchen until a bullet fired by Israelis pierced through a window and a wall and zipped only several inches above my head. At the time I sitting on the floor," he said.
More than 1,100 Palestinians have been killed since Israel launched a major military offensive in Gaza on December 27 in a bid to put an end to rocket attacks on Israeli territories from the Hamas-controlled enclave.
The Israeli government was expected to consider later Saturday calling a 10-day unilateral ceasefire, a move that has already been dismissed by a Hamas representative in Lebanon.
Last August, Alexander Klimchuk, a photographer working as a stringer for RIA Novosti, was killed while covering the armed conflict between Russia and Georgia over the breakaway republic of South Ossetia.
