Anas al-Sharif, prominent Al Jazeera correspondent, among five journalists killed in Israeli airstrike on Gaza | Israel-Gaza war

A leading Al Jazeera journalist, who was previously threatened by Israel, was killed with four colleagues in the Israeli air strike.

Anas Al-Sharif, one of the most prominent faces of Al Jazeera in Gaza, was killed in a tent for journalists outside the Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City on Sunday night.

According to Qatar-based publisher, a total of seven people, including Al-Sharif, Al Jazeera correspondent Muhammed Qreiqeh and camera operators Ibrahim Zaher, Mohammed Noufal and Moamen Aliwa, were killed.

The Israeli defense force agreed that the reporter was “the head of a terrorist cell in the Hamas terrorist organization, and that he was responsible for advancing rocket attacks against Israeli civilians and IDF forces”.

He claimed that there were intelligence and documents found in Gaza as proof, but the rights defenders were targeted for the front report on the Gaza War and that Israel’s claim was not evidence.

Al-Sharif called Al Jazeera, one of the braveest journalists in Gaza, and said that the attack was üz desperate attempt to silence the voices of Gaza with the expectation of the occupation of Gaza ”.

Last month, Israel IDF spokesman Avichai Adraee shared a video of Al-Sharif on X and accused him of being a member of Hamas’s military wing. UN Freedom of Expression Special Rapporteur Irene Khan, He said to this “an unfounded claim” And “an open attack on journalists”.

In July, Al-Sharif told the committee to protect the journalists (CPJ) and said that he lived with the feeling that I could be bombed and martyred at any moment ”.

After the attack, CPJ said that learning the deaths of journalists was “horrified”.

CPJ Regional Director Sara Qahd, Israel’s journalists as a militant without providing a reliable evidence of the labeling model, the intention and respect for the freedom of the press, “he said.

“Journalists are civilians and should never be targeted. Those responsible for these murders should be held responsible.”

The Palestinian journalists condemned that the union of the union described it as a kiri a bloody assassination crime ..

In January of this year, after the ceasefire between Hamas and Israel, al-Sharif attracted widespread attention when he took off his body armor with dozens of Gaza resident who celebrated temporary stood in hostility during a live broadcast.

A few minutes before his death, he published it on Al-Sharif X: “Breaking: Intense, intense Israeli bombing ‘Firefighters’ using the Eastern and Southern regions of the city of Gaza.”

In a final message that Al Jazeera was written on April 6 and that he was sent to Al-Sharif after his death, he said, “I did not hesitate to convey the losses many times and the losses without deterioration or fallsification,” he said.

“Allah may witness to those who remain silent, those who accept to kill, to those who suffocate our breath and those who are not affected by the scattered remains of our hearts and women, without doing anything to stop the massacre that our people have faced for more than a year and a half,” he continued.

A 28 -year -old wife and two little children leave behind. His father was killed in December 2023 with an Israeli strike in the family house in the Jabalia refugee camp in Gaza. Al-Sharif said he would continue to report and refused to leave the North Gaza.

“This is perhaps the hardest thing I have reported about the last 22 months. I am not too far away from the Al-Shifa Hospital and I could hear the big explosion near the Al-Shifa Hospital in the last half hour.

“I could see when he illuminated the sky, and in a few minutes, the news traveled that he was a journalist camp at the main gate of the Al-Shifa Hospital.”

Al-Sharif and his colleagues have been reporting from Gaza since the beginning of the conflict.

Mahmoud added that this attack is just one week because this attack is just one week because of the ruthless reports of hunger and famine and malnutrition because of the directly accusing an Israeli military official Anas directly and directly for Al Jazeera and reporters, Mah Mahmoud added.

Israel killed multiple Al Jazeera journalists and members of their families, including Hossam Shabat, who was killed in March and Ismail Al-Ghoul, who was killed in August, and the cameraman Rami al-Rifi.

The chief reporter Wael Al Dahdhydi’s wife, son, daughter and grandson was killed in October 2023, and weeks later, Al Jazeera Cameraman Samer Abu Daqqa was injured in an attack that killed.

According to Gaza’s government media office, Israel, which does not allow foreign journalists to Gaza and targeted local journalists, has killed 237 journalists since the war on October 7, 2023. Journalists’ Protection Committee said that at least 186 journalists were killed in the Gaza conflict. Israel deliberately targets journalists.

With Reuters and Agency France-Presse