The incident marked the first time during the war that Israel\u2019s military has swiftly claimed responsibility after a journalist was killed in a strike.<\/p>\n
It came less than a year after Israeli army officials first accused al-Sharif and other Al Jazeera journalists of being members of the militant groups Hamas and Islamic Jihad. In a July 24 video, Israel\u2019s army spokesperson Avichay Adraee attacked Al Jazeera and accused al-Sharif of being part of Hamas\u2019 military wing.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n Palestinians inspect the destroyed tent where journalists, including Al Jazeera correspondents Anas al-Sharif and Mohamed Qureiqa, were killed by an Israeli airstrike outside the Gaza City\u2019s Shifa hospital complex Monday, Aug. 11, 2025. (AP Photo\/Jehad Alshrafi)<\/p>\n Palestinians inspect the destroyed tent where journalists, including Al Jazeera correspondents Anas al-Sharif and Mohamed Qureiqa, were killed by an Israeli airstrike outside the Gaza City\u2019s Shifa hospital complex Monday, Aug. 11, 2025. (AP Photo\/Jehad Alshrafi)<\/p>\n Read More<\/p>\n Al Jazeera calls strike \u2018assassination\u2019<\/p>\n Al Jazeera called the strike \u201ctargeted assassination\u201d and accused Israeli officials of incitement, connecting al-Sharif\u2019s death to the allegations that both the network and correspondent had denied.<\/p>\n \u201cAnas and his colleagues were among the last remaining voices from within Gaza, providing the world with unfiltered, on-the-ground coverage of the devastating realities endured by its people,\u201d the Qatari network said in a statement.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Colleagues and friends mourn over the body Al Jazeera correspondent Mohamed Qureiqa who was killed with his colleague Anas al-Sharif and other journalists by an Israeli airstrike, at Shifa Hospital in Gaza City Monday, Aug. 11, 2025. (AP Photo\/Jehad Alshrafi)<\/p>\n Colleagues and friends mourn over the body Al Jazeera correspondent Mohamed Qureiqa who was killed with his colleague Anas al-Sharif and other journalists by an Israeli airstrike, at Shifa Hospital in Gaza City Monday, Aug. 11, 2025. (AP Photo\/Jehad Alshrafi)<\/p>\n Read More<\/p>\n Apart from rare invitations to observe Israeli military operations, international media have been barred from entering Gaza for the duration of the war. Al Jazeera is among the few outlets still fielding a big team of reporters inside the besieged strip, chronicling daily life amid airstrikes, hunger and the rubble of destroyed neighborhoods.<\/p>\n The network has suffered heavy losses during the war, including 27-year-old correspondent Ismail al-Ghoul and cameraman Rami al-Rifi, killed last summer, and freelancer Hossam Shabat, killed in an Israeli airstrike in March.<\/p>\n Like al-Sharif, Shabat was among the six that Israel accused of being members of militant groups last October.<\/p>\n Funeral-goers call to protect journalists<\/p>\n Hundreds of people, including many journalists, gathered Monday to mourn al-Sharif, Qureiqa and their colleagues. The bodies lay wrapped in white sheets at Gaza City\u2019s Shifa Hospital complex. Ahed Ferwana of the Palestinian Journalists Syndicate said reporters were being deliberately targeted and urged the international community to act.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Palestinians carry the body of Al Jazeera correspondent Anas al-Sharif, who, along with other journalists, was killed in an Israeli airstrike, during his funeral outside Gaza City\u2019s Shifa hospital complex, Monday, Aug. 11, 2025. (AP Photo\/Jehad Alshrafi)<\/p>\n Palestinians carry the body of Al Jazeera correspondent Anas al-Sharif, who, along with other journalists, was killed in an Israeli airstrike, during his funeral outside Gaza City\u2019s Shifa hospital complex, Monday, Aug. 11, 2025. (AP Photo\/Jehad Alshrafi)<\/p>\n Read More<\/p>\n Al-Sharif reported a nearby bombardment minutes before his death. In a social media post that Al Jazeera said was written to be posted in case of his death, he bemoaned the devastation and destruction that war had wrought and bid farewell to his wife, son and daughter.<\/p>\n \u201cI never hesitated for a single day to convey the truth as it is, without distortion or falsification,\u201d the 28-year-old wrote.<\/p>\n The journalists are the latest to be killed<\/a> in what observers have called the deadliest conflict for journalists in modern times. The Committee to Protect Journalists said on Sunday that at least 186 have been killed<\/a> in Gaza, and Brown University\u2019s Watson Institute in April said the war was \u201cquite simply, the worst ever conflict for reporters.\u201d<\/p>\n Al-Sharif began reporting for Al Jazeera a few days after war broke out. He was known for reporting on Israel\u2019s bombardment in northern Gaza, and later for the starvation gripping much of the territory\u2019s population. Qureiqa, a 33-year-old Gaza City native, is survived by two children.<\/p>\n Both journalists were separated from their families for months earlier in the war. When they managed to reunite during the ceasefire earlier this year, their children appeared unable to recognize them, according to video footage they posted at the time.<\/p>\n In a July broadcast al-Sharif cried on air as woman behind him collapsed from hunger.<\/p>\n \u201cI am taking about slow death of those people,\u201d he said at the time.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
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