Renowned Palestinian journalist Anas al-Sharif, a correspondent for Al Jazeera, was killed alongside four colleagues in an Israeli airstrike on a journalists’ tent outside Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza on Sunday evening.
Al Jazeera said the tent mainly sheltered media workers. Seven people were killed in total, including reporters Mohammed Qreiqeh and cameramen Ibrahim Zaher, Mohammed Noufal, and Moamen Aliwa.
Gaza’s government media office said the strike brought the number of journalists killed by Israel since October 2023 to 237.
The Israeli military acknowledged targeting al-Sharif, alleging he led a Hamas cell and planned rocket attacks — accusations dismissed by colleagues and press-freedom advocates as a pretext for silencing the media.
Reporting from northern Gaza since the war began on October 7, al-Sharif had repeatedly warned of threats to his life. In December 2023, his father was killed in an Israeli bombing on their Jabalia home. Despite personal tragedy and ongoing danger, he continued documenting Israeli attacks, often during communications blackouts.
Just hours before his death, he posted on X about “concentrated bombardment, also known as fire belts,” across Gaza.
His killing has triggered widespread condemnation, with journalists, rights groups, and social-media users denouncing what they call a systematic targeting of Palestinian voices as civilian deaths mount without international intervention.
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