An Israeli army spokesperson had called Al Jazeera Arabic’s Gaza correspondent Anas Al-Sharif a terrorist multiple times before his death in an Israeli airstrike on August 10, 2025. (File photo: Courtesy of Anas Al-Sharif)
New York, August 10, 2025—The Committee to Protect Journalists is appalled to learn of Sunday’s killing of Al Jazeera correspondents Anas al-Sharif and Mohammed Qreiqeh, and camera operators Ibrahim Zaher, Mohammed Noufal, and Moamen Aliwa by Israeli forces in Gaza. The five journalists were killed in an attack on a tent used by media near Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City during an Israeli bombardment, according to Al Jazeera.
In a statement announcing the killing of al-Sharif, Israel’s military accused the journalist of heading a Hamas cell and of “advancing rocket attacks against Israeli civilians and [Israeli] troops.”
Israel has a longstanding, documented pattern of accusing journalists of being terrorists without providing any credible proof.
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