Israeli forces killed two of Gaza’s leading journalists and their colleagues late on Sunday, hours after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu rejected international condemnation over his plan to “take over” Gaza City.
The Al Jazeera Media Network said in a statement that its correspondents Anas al-Sharif and Mohammed Qreiqea, along with three other colleagues, were deliberately killed when Israeli forces struck their tent outside al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City.
Sharif, a 28-year-old father of two, had been stationed outside the hospital’s main gate along with cameramen and photojournalists Ibrahim Zaher, Mohammed Noufal and Mosaab Al Sharif when their tent was attacked.
Two other unnamed Palestinians were also killed in the attack.
Shortly before his killing, Sharif had posted a video on X showing what he called Israel’s intense missile strikes on the eastern and southern parts of Gaza City. His final video captured the deafening booms of the attacks near to where he was.
Later, the Israeli military claimed, without providing any evidence, that it killed Sharif because he “served as the head of a terrorist cell in the Hamas terrorist organisation.”
Since Israel launched its war on the enclave in October 2023, it has routinely accused Palestinian journalists in Gaza of being Hamas members as part of what rights groups say is an effort to discredit their reporting of Israeli abuses.
Middle East Eye.
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