Al Jazeera journalist Anas al-Sharif has been killed alongside 4 colleagues in a focused Israeli assault on a tent housing journalists in Gaza Metropolis.
Seven folks had been killed within the assault on the tent positioned exterior the principle gate of Gaza Metropolis’s al-Shifa Hospital late on Sunday night. They embrace Al Jazeera correspondent Mohammed Qreiqeh and digital camera operators Ibrahim Zaher, Mohammed Noufal and Moamen Aliwa.
Shortly earlier than being killed, al-Sharif, a widely known 28-year-old Al Jazeera Arabic correspondent who had reportedly extensively from northern Gaza, wrote on X that Israel had launched intense, concentrated bombardment – often known as “fireplace belts” – on the jap and southern elements of Gaza Metropolis.
In his final video, the loud booms of Israel’s intensive missile bombing could be heard within the background because the darkish sky is lit in a flash of orange gentle.
قصف لا يتوقف…
منذ ساعتين والعدوان الإسرائيلي يشتد على مدينة غزة. pic.twitter.com/yW8PesTkFT— أنس الشريف Anas Al-Sharif (@AnasAlSharif0) August 10, 2025
Translation: Nonstop bombing… For the previous two hours, the Israeli aggression on Gaza Metropolis has intensified.
In a last message, written on April 6, to be revealed within the occasion of his loss of life, al-Sharif mentioned he “lived the ache in all its particulars” and “tasted grief and loss repeatedly”.
“Regardless of that, I by no means hesitated to convey the reality as it’s, with out distortion or misrepresentation, hoping that God would witness those that remained silent, those that accepted our killing, and those that suffocated our very breaths,” he mentioned.
“Not even the mangled our bodies of our youngsters and girls moved their hearts or stopped the bloodbath that our folks have been subjected to for over a yr and a half.”
The reporter additionally expressed sorrow for having needed to depart his spouse, Bayan, behind, and for not seeing his son, Salah, and daughter, Sham, develop up.
In a press release, Al Jazeera Media Community condemned the killings as “yet one more blatant and premeditated assault on press freedom”.
“This assault comes amid the catastrophic penalties of the continued Israeli assault on Gaza, which has seen the relentless slaughter of civilians, pressured hunger, and the obliteration of total communities,” the community mentioned.
“The order to assassinate Anas Al Sharif, one among Gaza’s bravest journalists, and his colleagues, is a determined try to silence the voices exposing the approaching seizure and occupation of Gaza.”
Al Jazeera known as on the worldwide neighborhood and all related organisations to “take decisive measures to halt this ongoing genocide and finish the deliberate concentrating on of journalists”.
“Al Jazeera emphasises that immunity for perpetrators and the shortage of accountability embolden Israel’s actions and encourage additional oppression towards witnesses to the reality,” the community mentioned.
Al Jazeera correspondent Hani Mahmoud, who was only one block away when the strike hit, mentioned reporting on al-Sharif’s loss of life was the toughest factor he has needed to do previously 22 months of struggle.
Mahmoud, who works for the community’s English channel, mentioned the reporters had been killed “due to their relentless reporting on the hunger and the famine and the malnutrition” suffered by Palestinians in Gaza, “as a result of they’re bringing the reality of this crime to everybody”.
No proof of Hamas affiliation
In a press release confirming the deliberate killing of al-Sharif, Israel’s army accused the journalist of heading a Hamas cell and “advancing rocket assaults towards Israeli civilians and [Israeli] troops”. It additionally alleged that it had paperwork offering “unequivocal proof” of his involvement with the Palestinian group.
Muhammed Shehada, an analyst on the Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor, mentioned there was “zero proof” that al-Sharif took half in any hostilities.
“His total every day routine was standing in entrance of a digital camera from morning to night,” he advised Al Jazeera.
Final month, after Israeli military spokesperson Avichai Adraee reshared a video on social media accusing al-Sharif of being a member of Hamas’s army wing, the United Nations particular rapporteur on freedom of expression, Irene Khan, mentioned she was “deeply alarmed by repeated threats and accusations of the Israeli military” towards al-Sharif.
“Fears for al-Sharif’s security are well-founded as there’s rising proof that journalists in Gaza have been focused and killed by the Israeli military on the premise of unsubstantiated claims that they had been Hamas terrorists,” Khan mentioned.
Al Jazeera, which has accused Israeli authorities of fabricating proof to hyperlink its employees to Hamas, had not too long ago denounced Israel’s army for waging a “campaign of incitement” towards its reporters within the Gaza Strip, together with al-Sharif.
The Committee to Shield Journalists final month mentioned it was gravely involved for the journalist’s security as he was being “focused by an Israeli army smear marketing campaign”.
Since Israel launched its struggle on the enclave in October 2023, it has routinely accused Palestinian journalists in Gaza of being Hamas members as a part of what rights teams say is an effort to discredit their reporting of Israeli abuses.
The Israeli army has killed more than 200 reporters and media staff since its bombardment started, together with a number of Al Jazeera journalists and their family.
