Israel assassinates prominent Al Jazeera journalists in Gaza
The director of Gaza's Al Shifa Medical Complex confirmed that Al Jazeera correspondents Anas al-Sharif and Mohammed Qreiqea died when Israeli forces struck their tent, in what he said appears to have been a deliberate attack on media workers.
Cameramen and photojournalists Ibrahim Zaher, Mohammed Noufal and Mosaab Al Sharif were also killed.
Al Sharif, 28, was based outside the hospital's main gate, reporting extensively from northern Gaza.
Shortly before his death, Al Sharif posted on X about Israel's concentrated missile strikes on the eastern and southern parts of Gaza City. His final video captured the deafening booms of the attacks near to where he was.
Jodie Ginsberg, chief executive of the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), told Al Jazeera on Sunday that Al Sharif's killing fits a longstanding Israeli pattern of targeting journalists. 'This is not just about Anas Al Sharif; it is part of a decades-long practice in which Israel kills journalists,' she said.
The killing of the five media workers comes days after Israel's security cabinet approved a plan to occupy the Gaza Strip. The operation aims to seize Gaza City and forcibly clear its nearly one million Palestinian residents.
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Al Jazeera correspondents Mohammed Qraiqea (L) and Anas al Sharif (R)
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