CAIRO/JERUSALEM: Israel’s military claimed to have killed an Al Jazeera journalist in a Gaza airstrike, accusing him of being a Hamas cell leader. However, human rights activists countered that the journalist was targeted for his frontline reporting on the war in Gaza and that Israel’s claim was unsupported by evidence.
According to Gaza officials and Al Jazeera, Anas Al Sharif, 28, was one of four journalists and an assistant who perished in an attack on a tent close to Shifa Hospital in eastern Gaza City. According to a hospital official, the strike also claimed the lives of two other persons.
Described by Al Jazeera as “one of Gaza’s bravest journalists,” the attack was a “desperate attempt to silence voices in anticipation of the occupation of Gaza.”
