The small hill of Tal Al-Zaatar, in the east of the Jabaliya camp, where the now-destroyed Al-Bashir mosque was built, is well known to the few Palestinian journalists present in the area. It is one of the few places in the besieged north of the Gaza Strip that offers sufficient network coverage to send images to the outside world or carry out live broadcasts.

At around 2 pm on January 22, journalists Emad Ghaboun, Mahmoud Sabbah, Mahmoud Shalha and Anas Al-Sharif were themselves looking for Internet signal to send their latest reports when a strike occurred. The place was exposed, almost desert. A reporter for Al Jazeera, Al-Sharif, was wearing a blue press vest when he was slightly wounded on his back. He dashed into the cloud of smoke. The body of a civilian was lying on the blood-soaked rubble, he had been killed instantly while on the phone with his family abroad. Three men were wounded. Prostrate and bloodied. They were crying and calling for help. 

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