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Al Jazeera<\/p>\nAmy Walker & Tiffany Wertheimer<\/p>\n
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Anas al-Sharif had reported extensively from northern Gaza, Al Jazeera said<\/p>\n
Five Al Jazeera journalists have been killed in an Israeli strike near Gaza City’s Al-Shifa Hospital, the broadcaster has said.<\/p>\n
Correspondents Anas al-Sharif and Mohammed Qreiqeh, alongside cameramen Ibrahim Zaher, Mohammed Noufal and Moamen Aliwa were in a tent for journalists at the hospital’s main gate when it was targeted, Al Jazeera reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n The “targeted assassination” on Sunday was “yet another blatant and premeditated attack on press freedom”, it said in a statement.<\/p>\n Shortly after the strike, the IDF confirmed that it had targeted Anas al-Sharif, writing in a Telegram post that he had “served as the head of a terrorist cell in Hamas”.<\/p>\n The IDF did not mention any of the other journalists who were killed.<\/p>\n In total, seven people died in the strike, Al Jazeera reports. The broadcaster initially said that four of its staff had been killed, but revised it to five a few hours later.<\/p>\n Its managing editor, Mohamed Moawad, told the BBC that al-Sharif was an accredited journalist who was “the only voice” for the world to know what was happening in the Gaza Strip. <\/p>\n Throughout the war, Israel has not allowed international journalists into Gaza to report freely. Therefore, many outlets rely on local reporters within the territory for coverage.<\/p>\n “They were targeted in their tent, they weren’t covering from the front line,” Moawad said of the Israeli strike. <\/p>\n “The fact is that the Israeli government is wanting to silence the coverage of any channel of reporting from inside Gaza,” he told The Newsroom programme. <\/p>\n “This is something that I haven’t seen before in modern history.” <\/p>\n Al-Sharif, 28, appeared to be posting on X in the moments before his death, warning of intense Israeli bombardment within Gaza City. A post that was published after he was reported to have died appears to have been pre-written and published by a friend.<\/p>\n In two graphic videos of the aftermath of the strike, which have been confirmed by BBC Verify, men can be seen carrying the bodies of those who were killed. <\/p>\n Some shout out Qreiqeh’s name, and a man wearing a media vest says that one of the bodies is that of al-Sharif.<\/p>\n In its statement, the IDF accused al-Sharif of posing as a journalist, and being “responsible for advancing rocket attacks against Israeli civilians and IDF troops”<\/p>\n It said it had previously “disclosed intelligence” confirming his military affiliation, which included “lists of terrorist training courses”.<\/p>\n Last month, the Al Jazeera Media Network – along with the United Nations<\/a> and the Committee to Protect Journalists<\/a> (CPJ) – issued separate statements warning that al-Sharif’s life was in danger, and calling for his protection.<\/p>\n Jodie Ginsberg, chief executive of the CPJ, told the BBC that Israeli authorities have failed to provide evidence to show that the journalists they killed were terrorists.<\/p>\n “This is a pattern we’ve seen from Israel – not just in the current war, but in the decades preceding – in which typically a journalist will be killed by Israeli forces and then Israel will say after the fact that they are a terrorist, but provides very little evidence to back up those claims,” she said.<\/p>\n This is not the first time the IDF has targeted and killed Al Jazeera journalists in Gaza, who they claimed were Hamas-affiliated. <\/p>\n