Prominent Al Jazeera journalist among several killed in Israeli strike on Gaza press tent
Amman, Jordan – Israel’s army targeted a tent for journalists in Gaza on Sunday, Seven peopleAnas Al-Sharif, which attracted millions of followers on social media and emerged as the best sound in the Arab world because of chronicization of the war in Gaza for the last 22 months.
28-year-old Al-Sharif Al-Sharif Al Jazeera correspondent Muhammed Qreiqeh and camera operators Ibrahim Zaher, Moemen Aliwa and their assistant Muhammad Noufal. According to the protection committee of journalists, a seventh journalist Muhammad Al-Khaldi was killed in a nearby tent.
In a statement, Al Jazeera, which has been financed by the Qatar government and has a relationship with the Israeli government for a long time, is the murders.targeted assassination“This was“ another open and pre -written attack against the freedom of the press ”.
“One of the bravest journalists in Gaza, Anas Al-Sharif and his colleagues, one of the bravest journalists in Gaza, a desperate attempt to silence the seizure and occupation of Gaza,” he said.
“Al Jazeera emphasizes that immunity and lack of accountability for perpetrators strengthen Israel’s actions and encourage further pressure against witnesses, Al al Jazeera said.
Qatar Prime Minister Sheikh Muhammad bin Abdulrahman Al-Thani said in a statement about X, “Israel’s deliberate targeting in the Gaza Strip revealed how these crimes are beyond the imagination”.
The Israeli army confirmed that he had carried out the attack and said that he had “posing as a journalist” shortly after midnight on Monday, but he shot “terrorist Anas Al-Sharif öyle who said“ the head of the terrorist was the head of the terrorist cell ”.
“Intelligence Information previously disclosed” and “many documents in the Gaza Strip veril confirmed that Al-Sharif confirmed the participation of Hamas. The documents of the statement include the personnel cadres, the lists of terrorist training courses, and in addition to others, Al Jazeera “ensure evidence of the integration of Hamas terrorist”.
The documents were first released in October 2024 and accused the six Al Jazeera journalist with the participation of Hamas or Islamic Jihad Militant group.
At that time, the BM expert Al Jazeera, the project journalists and other groups committee aroused doubt the accuracy of the documents. UN Freedom of Expression Special Rapporteur Irene Khan condemned Israel’s accusations against Al-Sharif in July as “unfounded” and önmek to endanger his life and silence his reports on genocide in Gaza ”.
The Israeli army had made unfounded claims before Journalists targeted and killed in Gaza They were terrorists. In March, Israel killed Al Jazeera correspondent Hossam Shabat; In July 2024, İsmail Ghoul and cameraman killed Rami Al-Rifi.
Chef correspondent Wael Al Dahdouh lost his wife, son, daughter and grandson in an Israeli air strike in October 2023. After that, Al Jazeera cameraman Samer Abu was injured in a strike that killed Daqqa.
Israel prevented international journalists from entering Gaza, even if they targeted local journalists. Health officials in Gaza say that 237 journalists have been killed since the war began on October 7, 2023. The project says that at least 186 of the journalists committee were killed.
The drone attack on Sunday arrived weeks after the Israeli army accelerated the attacks on Al-Sharif, the Israeli army’s Arabic language spokesman accused Al Jazeera correspondent of spreading “Propaganda ve in July and joining the“ Fake Hamas Campaign in hunger.
Later in that month, the Project Journalists Committee said that Al-Sharif was “heavy anxious” about the security of the security. The group’s Middle East and North African Director Sara Quah warned that the Smear campaign against Al-Sharif represented the effort to produce consent to kill Al-Sharif ”.
“Israel is killing ambassadors,” he said in a statement on Monday.
“If Israel can kill the leading Gazan journalist, then he can kill everyone. The world needs to see these deadly attacks on journalists in Gaza and the censorship of journalists in Israel and the West Bank: for what they are.
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said that he was “great concern” about the re -targeting of journalists in Gaza; Human Rights Monitoring Organization, Amnesty International, Unlimited Reporters and other groups also condemned. The US government did not comment immediately.
Al-Sharif’s killing took tribute for a journalist who came to embody Gaza’s pain for many people in the region.
On social media, people shared touching moments, including when their father was killed in an Israeli air strike in the Jabalia refugee camp in Gaza in December 2023; A video when he reunited with his daughter earlier this year; Or when it spreads almost, it cracks.
“Continue, Mr. Anas,” he says, a passage. You are our voice.
The video sent to social media showed mass crowds at Sheikh Radwan Cemetery The funeral of journalists. While the images described that the mourning is crying and embracing each other, the others of the crowd carried the covered body of al-Sharif and said, iz We will sacrifice ourselves with our soul and blood, Anas ”.
Al-Sharif survived by his wife, daughter and son.
A few minutes before the strike that killed him, Al-Sharif said that he was a “intense, intense Israeli bombardment” in Gaza City for two hours.
Al-Sharif’s latest messageIt was written in the case of death in April: “If these words reach you, know that Israel has managed to kill me and silence my voice.”
He continued: ım I have suffered in all its details, I suffered many times, but I did not hesitate to transfer the truth without deterioration or distortion – so Allah did not witness those who were silent, those who suffocate our breath, those who were opposed to the remains of our hearts, and those who were opposed to our faces, and this. “
