Amman, Jordan – The Israeli army targeted a tent for reporters in Gaza City late on Sunday, Seven people were killedIncluding the people of Al -Sharif, Al -Jazeera correspondent, who attracted millions of followers on social media and appeared as a higher voice in the Arab world because of its history of the war in Gaza during the past 22 months.
He was killed along with 28 -year -old Sharif, Al -Jazeera correspondent Muhammad QRIQEH and camera operators Ibrahim Zahr, Mamin Elia, and their assistant Mohamed Nofal. The seventh journalist, Muhammad Khaldi, who was in a nearby tent, was also killed, according to the Committee for the Protection of Journalists.
In a statement, Al -Jazeera, funded by the government of Qatar and for a long time, described a preserved relationship with the Israeli government, the killing as “Hardcourse assassination“This was” another blatant and in -depth attack on freedom of the press. “
The statement said, “The assassination order of Anas Al -Sharif, one of the journalists of Gaza and his colleagues, is a desperate attempt to silence the voices that reveal the imminent Nubia and the occupation in Gaza,” referring to the recently approved Israeli government for its army to hand over the bus.
Al -Jazeera statement said: “Al -Jazeera emphasizes that immunity for the perpetrators and the lack of accountability encourages Israel’s actions and encourages more persecution against witnesses on the truth.”
The Qatari Prime Minister Sheikh Muhammad bin Abdul Rahman II also sparked Israel in a statement on social media, saying in a statement about X that “the deliberate targeting of journalists by Israel in the Gaza Strip reveals how these crimes exceed imagination.”
The Israeli army confirmed that it had conducted the attack, and issued a statement shortly before Monday night, saying that he hit the “terrorist people” who said “was put forward as a journalist” but he was “president of a terrorist cell” in Hamas.
He claimed that “the information of the intelligence that was previously disclosed” and “many documents in the Gaza Strip” confirmed the participation of Sharif with Hamas. The documents, which the statement said that the lists of employees, the lists of terrorist training courses, are among other matters, “providing evidence of Hamas terrorist integration” inside the island.
The documents were issued for the first time in October 2024 and accused six journalists from the island of Al -Jazeera of being involved with Hamas or the Islamic Jihad group.
At that time, Al -Jazeera, the United Nations expert, threw the committee to protect journalists and other groups, doubting the authenticity of the documents. Irene Khan, the United Nations’ special decision, denounced Israel’s accusations against the Sharif in July as “unfounded” and “a blatant attempt to threaten his life and silence his reports on the genocide in Gaza.”
The Israeli army has already made baseless claims Journalists that targeted and killed them in Gaza They were terrorists. In March, Israel killed the Al -Jazeera correspondent of young women; In July 2024, Ismail Gul and his photographer Rami Al -Rafi were killed.
The main correspondent Will Al -Dahdouh lost his wife, son, daughter and grandson in an Israeli air strike in October 2023.
Israel prevented international journalists from entering Gaza even because it targeted local reporters. Gaza’s health authorities say 237 have been killed since the war began on October 7, 2023. The committee that protects journalists says at least 186 was killed.
On Sunday, the drone attack came weeks after the Israeli army intensified its attacks on the Sharif, with a spokesman for Arabic languages in the Israeli army on charges of Al -Jazeera correspondent in July from publishing “propaganda” and participating in a “false Hamas campaign on hunger”.
Later that month, the committee to protect journalists said it was “very concerned” about Salama Al Sharif. The director of the Middle East and North Africa in the group warned that the Chaouv campaign against Sharif represents “an attempt to manufacture the approval of the murder of the Sharif.”
In a statement on Monday, Sada said: “Israel kills the apostles.”
“If Israel can kill the most prominent journalist of Ghazan, it can kill anyone. The world needs to see these deadly attacks on journalists inside Gaza, as well as the control of journalists in Israel and the West Bank, for what they are: a deliberate and methodological attempt to cover up the actions of Israel.”
British Prime Minister Kiir Starmer said it was “very concerned” about the repeated targeting of journalists in Gaza,; Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International, has also released correspondents without borders and other condemnation groups. The United States government did not immediately comment.
The murder in Sharif drained a journalist for many around the region to embody the suffering of Gaza.
On social media, people shared touching moments of his coverage, including when he covered the killing of his father in an Israeli air strike in the Gabalia Refugee camp in Gaza City in December 2023; A video clip when he gathered with his daughter earlier this year; Or almost collapsed on the air, his voice collides.
An invisible passerby says: “Send, Mr. Anas.” “You are our voice.”
The video posted on social media showed the crowds collected in the Sheikh Radwan Cemetery Future of journalists. The footage of the mourners who cry and embrace each other, while others in the crowd carried the body of the Sharif written and hesitated, “With our soul and our blood, we will sacrifice ourselves for you, people.”
Al -Sharif survived his wife, daughter and son.
Minutes before the strike he killed, Sharif posted on X saying that there was “intense Israeli bombing and center” in Gaza City for two hours.
Al -Sharif’s final messageHe wrote in April to be published in the event of his death, read: “If these words reach you, know that Israel has succeeded in killing me and silencing my voice.”
He continued: “I lived the pain in all its details, and tastes suffering and loss several times, yet I was not hesitant once in conveying the truth as it is, without distortion or forgery – that God may witness against those who were silent, those who accepted to kill us more, and stop more than anyone who stop them, and they strangle our breath and their hearts. Half.”