Al Jazeera reported that Israel had just killed five of its press that were covering the war in Gaza in a targeted airstrike. According to the Middle Eastern news network, the deceased staff are correspondents Anas al-Sharif and Mohammed Qreiqeh, their assistant Mohammed Noufal, and two cameramen, Ibrahim Zaher and Moamen Aliwa. Two other people, including Mohammad Al-Khaldi, a freelance reporter, also lost their lives in the attack.
A video making rounds on the internet showed the aftermath of the bombing and the bodies of the reporters, including Anas al-Sharif, as people wailed in anger.
The pressmen were bombed and killed in active service while they were inside a designated tent at al-shifa hospital, in what Al Jazeera described as Israel’s desperate efforts to prevent the world from knowing about the atrocities they were committing in Gaza.
The Israeli Defence Force (IDF) did not deny the attack but claimed that the popular Al Jazeera journalist, Anas al-Sharif, was heading a terrorist cell in Hamas, and participated in firing rockets at Israeli civilians as well as the IDF.
The IDF also said it has a document that proves the deceased journalist’s involvement with Hamas as far back as 2019.
Reacting to the IDF’s claims, the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) said they have not tendered the evidence and held that Israel had been in the habit of killing journalists covering the onslaught and heaping terrorist accusations on them.
Al Jazeera also denied the accusation and said it conducted strict background checks on its journalists and reporters to ensure their credibility. However, BBC reported that a post apparently made by Anas al-Sharif shortly before he was killed appeared to have been pre-written and published by someone else.
Anas al-Sharif’s death comes less than a month after the CPJ cried foul that the IDF was planning to kill the 28-year-old News reporter after an IDF representative, Avichay Adraee, labeled him a Hamas terrorist sympathizer after he could not control his emotions and cried on live while reporting the hunger and starvation in Gaza.
This follows IDF’s killing of journalists they classified as terrorists, such as Hamza Al Dahdouh,Ismail Al Ghoul,Rami Al Refee, andHossam Shabat.
The five slain Al Jazeera journalists staff were buried today. Hundreds of palestines joined the procession that saw their bodies carried from the hospital to their final resting ground at Sheikh Radwan Cemetery in Gaza.
U.S. President Donald Trump is yet to make an official statement on the attack, however UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer condemned the continual attack killing of pressmen and called for an independent investigation on the recent incident.
Two weeks ago, Starmer had said that Israel should initiate the process of ending the war before September or risk Britain officially recognizing the state of Palestine.
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