Al Jazeera workers killed in what seems to be a focused Israeli assault on a tent housing journalists exterior al-Shifa hospital.
Al Jazeera journalist Anas al-Sharif has been killed alongside three colleagues in what seems to be a focused Israeli assault, the director of the al-Shifa hospital in Gaza Metropolis has mentioned.
Al-Sharif, 28, was killed on Sunday after a tent for journalists exterior the primary gate of the hospital was hit. The well-known Al Jazeera Arabic correspondent reportedly extensively from northern Gaza.
Al Jazeera correspondent Mohammed Qreiqeh and digital camera operators Ibrahim Zaher and Mohammed Noufal had been additionally among the many victims.
Shortly earlier than being killed, al-Sharif wrote on X that Israel had launched intense, concentrated bombardment – also called “hearth belts” – on the jap and southern components of Gaza Metropolis.
In his final video, the loud booms of Israel’s intensive missile bombing might be heard within the background because the darkish sky is lit in a flash of orange gentle.
قصف لا يتوقف…
منذ ساعتين والعدوان الإسرائيلي يشتد على مدينة غزة. pic.twitter.com/yW8PesTkFT— أنس الشريف Anas Al-Sharif (@AnasAlSharif0) August 10, 2025
Translation: Continuous bombing… For the previous two hours, the Israeli aggression on Gaza Metropolis has intensified.
In a press release asserting the killing of al-Sharif, Israel’s army accused the journalist of heading a Hamas cell and of “advancing rocket assaults in opposition to Israeli civilians and [Israeli] troops.”
It alleged it possessed paperwork offering “unequivocal proof” of his involvement with the Palestinian group.
Muhammed Shehada, an analyst on the Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor, mentioned there was “zero proof” that al-Sharif took half in any hostilities. “His total day by day routine was standing in entrance of a digital camera from morning to night,” he informed Al Jazeera.
The Al Jazeera Media Community had just lately denounced the Israeli army for what it known as a “marketing campaign of incitement” in opposition to its reporters within the Gaza Strip, together with most notably al-Sharif.
In July, Israeli military spokesperson Avichai Adraee reshared a video on social media accusing al-Sharif of being a member of Hamas’s army wing – a declare that has been forcefully rejected as false.
Israel has routinely accused Palestinian journalists in Gaza of being members of Hamas because it launched its battle on the enclave in October 2023 as a part of what rights teams say is an effort to discredit their reporting on Israeli abuses.
The Israeli army has killed greater than 200 reporters and media employees since its bombardment started, together with a number of Al Jazeera journalists and their relations.
The Committee to Defend Journalists final month mentioned it was gravely involved for al-Sharif’s security and mentioned he was a “focused by an Israeli army smear marketing campaign.”
