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An Al Jazeera journalist who was killed by an Israeli airstrike within the Gaza Strip was the chief of a Hamas “terrorist cell,” the Israel Protection Forces introduced.
Anas Al-Sharif and 4 of his colleagues – recognized by Al Jazeera as correspondent Mohammed Qreiqeh and digicam operators Ibrahim Zaher, Mohammed Noufal and Moamen Aliwa – died Sunday in what the Qatari-based community referred to as a “focused Israeli assault” on a tent housing journalists in Gaza Metropolis.
“The IDF struck the terrorist Anas Al-Sharif, who posed as a journalist for the Al Jazeera community,” the Israeli army stated in a press release. “Anas Al-Sharif served as the pinnacle of a terrorist cell within the Hamas terrorist organization and was chargeable for advancing rocket assaults in opposition to Israeli civilians and IDF troops.
The IDF additionally stated it “beforehand disclosed intelligence info and lots of paperwork discovered within the Gaza Strip” confirming Al-Sharif’s army affiliation with Hamas, from which “the Al Jazeera community has tried to disassociate itself.”
This undated latest picture, taken from video broadcast by the Qatari-based tv station Al Jazeera, reveals the community’s Arabic-language Gaza correspondent, Anas al-Sharif, reporting on digicam in Gaza. Al-Sharif and 4 different Al Jazeera workers members have been discovered useless following an Israeli drone strike on their tent in Gaza Metropolis shortly earlier than midnight on Sunday. (Al Jazeera by way of AP)
“Intelligence and paperwork from Gaza, together with rosters, terrorist coaching lists and wage data, show he was a Hamas operative built-in into Al Jazeera,” the IDF posted on X. “A press badge isn’t a defend for terrorism.”
Al Jazeera and Al-Sharif beforehand rejected claims of his affiliation with Hamas, based on Reuters.
“Al Jazeera Media Community condemns within the strongest phrases the focused assassination of its correspondents Anas Al-Sharif and Mohammed Qreiqeh … by the Israeli occupation forces in yet one more blatant and premeditated assault on press freedom,” the network said.
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Palestinians examine the destroyed tent the place journalists, together with Al Jazeera correspondents Anas al-Sharif and Mohammed Qreiqeh, have been discovered useless following an Israeli airstrike outdoors the Gaza Metropolis’s Shifa hospital complicated on Monday, Aug. 11, 2025. (AP/Jehad Alshrafi)
“Anas and his colleagues have been among the many final remaining voices from inside Gaza, offering the world with unfiltered, on-the-ground protection of the devastating realities endured by its individuals. Whereas worldwide media was barred from getting into, Al Jazeera journalists remained inside besieged Gaza, experiencing the starvation and struggling they documented by means of their lenses,” it added.
The U.N. Human Rights Workplace also wrote on X that it condemned the killings and referred to as for “speedy, protected and unhindered entry to Gaza for all journalists.”
Al Jazeera journalist Anas Al-Sharif, who was killed in an Israeli strike on Aug. 10, 2025, stands at a landfill as he experiences the information in Gaza Metropolis on Aug. 13, 2024. (Reuters/Dawoud Abu Alkas)
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The IDF stated the paperwork it discovered within the Gaza Strip “embrace personnel rosters, lists of terrorist coaching programs, telephone directories, and wage paperwork for the terrorist, and supply unequivocal proof that [Al-Sharif] serves as a army terrorist in Hamas within the Gaza Strip. “
