The Israeli army assassinated Al Jazeera correspondent Anas
al-Sharif and several of his colleagues on Sunday in a targeted
airstrike on a journalists' tent outside al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City.
The strike has effectively wiped out the entire staff of Al Jazeera in
Gaza City, claiming the lives of one child and six journalists,
including Al Jazeera correspondent Muhammad Qreiqeh.
Widely celebrated as the "voice of Gaza," al-Sharif's assassination comes after months of incitement against him and puts an end to his coverage ahead of an expected Israeli invasion of Gaza City. The Israeli army has reportedly given Gaza City residents until October 7 to evacuate, when the Israeli army reportedly plans to invade northern Gaza as part of its stated plan of conquering the entire Strip.
Al-Sharif
and Qreiqeh each have two children. Both stayed behind in northern Gaza
as their families fled south when Israel forcibly displaced the
population at the beginning of the genocide in late 2023.
Shortly after the airstrike that killed al-Sharif and his colleagues, the Israeli army released a statement
claiming that al-Sharif was a member of Hamas and was responsible for
"rocket attacks" on Israeli civilians and soldiers. The Israeli army
claimed that "intelligence and documents from Gaza" allegedly "proved he
was a Hamas operative."
In October 2024, the Israeli army published the names of al-Sharif and five other journalists
who it claimed were Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad fighters. One
of those journalists, Drop Site contributor and Al Jazeera Mubasher
correspondent Hossam Shabat, was assassinated on March 24, 2025. Another journalist on the "hit list" was Anas al-Sharif.
Israel has killed 238 journalists in Gaza since the start of the genocide, the Gaza Government Media Office said in a statement on Monday.
"The targeting of journalists and media institutions is a full-fledged war crime that aims to silence the truth and erase evidence of the genocide."
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