Al Jazeera journalist, Anas Al-Sharif, and 4 team members killed in the Israeli attack in Gaza

Israel’s army attacked and killed five jazeera journalists in Gaza on Sunday, including Al Jazeera correspondent, Anas Al-Sharif, who only three weeks before had appealed to the committee to protect journalists for fear that he could be killed.

Al-Sharif began informing Al Jazeera a few days after the war began in 2023. He was known to inform about Israel’s bombing in northern Gaza, and then to cover the hunger that grabbed a large part of the population of the territory.

In a July transmission, Al-Sharif cried in the air when a woman behind him collapsed, apparently from malnutrition.

“I am talking about the slow death of those people,” he said in the report.

Israel assumed the responsibility of the strike, claiming that Al-Shariff was a leader of a Hamas cell, an accusation that Al Jazeera and Al-Shariff had previously ruled out as without foundation, said News. The incident marked the first time during the war that the Israel Army has quickly claimed responsibility after a journalist was killed in a strike.

Since the war began, Israel has refused to allow international journalists to enter Gaza, apart from rare invitations to observe Israeli military operations with FDI companions, which means that the burden of documenting the war there has fallen on Palestinian journalists inside the strip. That work has been deadly: at least 178 Palestinian journalists and media workers have been killed during the war, according to the committee to protect journalists.

The foreign press association, the oldest association of international journalists in the world, condemned Israel’s orientation to journalists who report on the war in Gaza.

“In the last 22 months, the Israeli army has repeatedly labeled Palestinian journalists as militants, often without verifiable evidence, making them goals,” said the FPA in a statement on Monday.

Al-Sharif’s murder occurred less than a year after the Israeli army officials accused him for the first time other jazeera journalists from being members of Hamas terrorist groups and Islamic Jihad.

Al Jazeera described the strike as a “directed murder” and accused Israeli incitement officials.

“Anas and his colleagues were among the last remaining voices of Gaza, providing the world for coverage without filter in the field of the devastating realities suffered by their people,” said the Qatari network in a statement.

With the international media forbidden when entering Gaza, Al Jazeera is among the few points of sale that still have a great team of reporters inside the Sitgeard Strip, which tells everyday life in the midst of air attacks, hunger and the debris of destroyed neighborhoods.

The network has He suffered great losses During the war, including the 27-year-old correspondent, Ismail Al-Ghoul and the cameraman Rami al-Rifi, killed last summer, and the freelancer Hossam Shabbat, killed in an Israeli air attack in March.

Like Al-Sharif, Shabat was one of the six that Israel accused of being members of militant groups last October.

Hundreds of people, including many journalists, gathered on Monday to cry Al-Sharif, Qureiqa and their colleagues. Their bodies lay wrapped in white sheets in the Shifa hospital complex in the city of Gaza.

Ahed Ferwana, from the Palestinian journalist union, said journalists were deliberately attacked and urged the international community to act.

Al-Sharif reported a bombing near minutes before his death. In a publication on social networks that Al Jazeera said it was written to be published in the case of his death, he lamented the devastation and destruction that the war had been made and said goodbye to his wife, son and daughter.

“I never hesitated during a single day to convey the truth as it is, without distortion or falsification,” the 28 -year -old wrote.

Journalists are the last to be killed in what observers have called the most fatal conflict for journalists in modern times. The committee of protecting journalists on Sunday that at least 186 have been killed in Gaza, and the Watson Institute of Brown University in April said the war was “simply the worst conflict for journalists.”

Irene Khan, the UN Special Rapporteur about freedom of expression, said on July 31 that these murders were “part of a deliberate strategy of Israel to suppress the truth, obstruct the documentation of international crimes and bury any possibility of future responsibility.”

The committee of protecting journalists on Sunday that he was horrified by the strike.

“Israel’s patron of labeling journalists as militants without providing credible evidence raises serious questions about his intention and respect for press freedom,” said Sara Qudah, regional director of the group, in a statement.

Al Jazeera is blocked in Israel and the soldiers raided their offices in the West Bank occupied last year, ordering them closed.

Debora Patta and Haley Ott contributed to this report.

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