Five Al Jazeera staff, including well-known Arabic correspondent Anas al-Sharif, have been killed in a targeted Israeli air strike in Gaza. Al Jazeera says its journalists Anas al-Sharif and Mohammed Qreiqeh were killed along with camera operators Ibrahim Zaher, Mohammed Noufal and Moamen Aliwa when Israel bombed a journalists’ tent in Gaza City, near Al-Shifa Hospital. The attack killed the whole of Al Jazeera’s reporting team in Gaza City.
“Al Jazeera journalist Anas al-Sharif has been killed alongside three colleagues in what appears to be a targeted Israeli attack, the director of Al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City has said,” the Qatar-based broadcaster said.
“Al-Sharif, 28, was killed on Sunday after a tent for journalists outside the main gate of the hospital was hit. The well-known Al Jazeera Arabic correspondent reported extensively from northern Gaza.”
People look at the burnt and tattered remains of a tent on a street. The tent of journalists Anas al-Sharif, Mohammed Qreiqeh and three photojournalists in Gaza City. (Reuters: Ebrahim Hajjaj)
Israel had been openly threatening to target al-Sharif for several weeks, claiming he was a Hamas operative, which al-Sharif and Al Jazeera had denied.
Israel’s military said it had struck an Al Jazeera correspondent in Gaza, calling him a “terrorist” who “posed as a journalist”.
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