Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi has condemned the killing of five Al Jazeera journalists in an Israeli airstrike in the Gaza Strip, highlighting this crime as evidence of the desperation of a globally reviled regime that is going downhill.
In a social media post on Monday evening, Araghchi stated that the targeted assassinations of high-profile Palestinian journalists are not a sign of the regime’s strength.
He further emphasized the complicity of Western governments in the regime’s atrocities, noting that their “shameful silence is deafening.”
Israel just carried out targeted assassinations of several more accredited and high-profile Palestinian journalists. Is that strength? Or the panic of a globally reviled regime that is going downhill?
When all this is over, the world will remind Western governments’ of their… https://t.co/OKFNIxbHPY
— Seyed Abbas Araghchi (@araghchi) August 11, 2025
The Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) also condemned the regime’s actions as a blatant attack on freedom of expression and human rights, asserting that such crimes aim to silence the voice of truth.
The IRGC urged the international community and human rights organizations to speak out and take action to halt the regime’s crimes.
Additionally, the European Union condemned the killing of journalists in Gaza.
Al Jazeera reporters Anas al-Sharif and Mohammad Qareqa, and camera operators Ibrahim Zaher, Mohammed Nofal, and Mo’men Aliwa, as well as Mohammad al-Khalidi, a journalist with the Sahat platform, were killed in a deliberate Israeli strike on their tent outside the al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City on Sunday evening.
The Israeli military shamelessly admitted carrying out the assassination, claiming Anas al-Sharif was a member of the Hamas resistance group, an accusation that Al Jazeera and Sharif had previously rejected as baseless.
The Israeli army targeted a journalists’ tent near the al-Shifa Hospital in western Gaza City late on Sunday, killing five journalists, according to Gaza’s Government Media Office.
The Gaza government condemned “Israel’s systematic assassination of Palestinian reporters in Gaza” and called on human rights and media institutions to “condemn these systematic crimes against Gaza journalists.”
At least 61,499 Palestinians have been killed, mostly women and children, and another 153,575 individuals have been injured in the brutal Israeli onslaught on Gaza since October 7, 2023, according to the health ministry of Gaza.