Broadcaster Al Jazeera said an Israeli airstrikes killed its correspondent Anas al-Sharif and three other of its staffers in Gaza City.
The broadcaster said Al-Sharif, one of its mos prominent correspondents in Gaza, Mohammed Qreiqeh, were killed along with camera operators Ibrahim Zaher and Mohammed Noufal “in a targeted Israeli strike on a tent housing journalists in Gaza City.”
The director of Shifa hospital, Dr Muhammad Abu Salmiya, told The Independent that the tent where were sheltering within the medical complex was “bombed directly”.
“The Al Jazeera journalists’ tent in front of Al-Shifa Medical Complex was bombed. Anas Al-Sharif, Mohammed Qreiqeh, and four journalists working with them were killed, along with another bystander.”
“Part of the hospital’s emergency department was also damaged. They arrived at the emergency room with severe injuries.”
“The tent was directly bombed and they arrived at the emergency department with severe injuries,” he added.
Israel’s military claimed in a statement late on Sunday that al-Sharif had “posed as a journalist” and alleged he was with Hamas.
The Committee to Protect Journalists last month said it was gravely concerned for al-Sharif’s safety and said he was being “targeted by an Israeli military smear campaign”.
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