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 situated outdoors the primary gate of Gaza Metropolis’s al-Shifa Hospital late on Sunday night. They embrace Al Jazeera correspondent Mohammed Qreiqeh and digicam 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 “hearth belts” – on the jap and southern components of Gaza Metropolis.
In his final video, the loud booms of Israel’s intensive missile bombing might be heard within the background because the darkish sky is lit in a flash of orange mild.
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 closing message, written on April 6, to be revealed within the occasion of his demise, 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 people who suffocated our very breaths,” he mentioned.
“Not even the mangled our bodies of our youngsters and ladies moved their hearts or stopped the bloodbath that our folks have been subjected to for over a 12 months and a half.”
The reporter additionally expressed sorrow for having needed to go away his spouse, Bayan, behind, and for not seeing his son, Salah, and daughter, Sham, develop up.
In an announcement, Al Jazeera Media Community condemned the killings as “one more blatant and premeditated assault on press freedom”.
“This assault comes amid the catastrophic penalties of the continuing Israeli assault on Gaza, which has seen the relentless slaughter of civilians, compelled hunger, and the obliteration of whole communities,” the community mentioned.
“The order to assassinate Anas Al Sharif, certainly one of Gaza’s bravest journalists, and his colleagues, is a determined try and silence the voices exposing the upcoming seizure and occupation of Gaza.”
Al Jazeera referred to as on the worldwide group and all related organisations to “take decisive measures to halt this ongoing genocide and finish the deliberate focusing 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 demise was the toughest factor he has needed to do previously 22 months of battle.
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 an announcement 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 whole day by day routine was standing in entrance of a digicam from morning to night,” he informed 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 idea of unsubstantiated claims that they had been Hamas terrorists,” Khan mentioned.
Al Jazeera, which has accused Israeli authorities of fabricating proof to hyperlink its workers to Hamas, had lately denounced Israel’s army for waging a “campaign of incitement” towards its reporters within the Gaza Strip, together with al-Sharif.
The Committee to Defend 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 battle 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 relations.
