Anas al-Sharif, a journalist for Al Jazeera, was killed in an Israeli strike on Sunday (August 10, 2025). While the Israeli navy admitted in an announcement to concentrating on Anas al-Sharif by labelling him as a “terrorist” affiliated with Hamas, many rights advocates mentioned he had been focused for his frontline reporting on the Gaza struggle.
Anas al-Sharif, 28, died after a tent for journalists exterior the most important gate of al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City was struck.
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Al Jazeera mentioned its correspondent, Mohammed Qreiqeh, cameraman Ibrahim Zaher, and Moamen Aliwa, and their assistant Mohammed Noufal, had been additionally killed in the assault.
Who was Anas Al Sharif?
Anas al-Sharif, an Arabic-language correspondent, had reported extensively from northern Gaza all through the present Israel-Palestine battle. His dying is amongst greater than 200 journalists reported killed since the struggle started.
The reporter leaves behind his spouse, Bayan, son, Salah, and daughter, Sham.
A press freedom group and a U.N. knowledgeable beforehand warned that al-Sharif’s life was in hazard attributable to his reporting from Gaza.
Al Jazeera mentioned al-Sharif had left a social media message to be posted in the occasion of his dying that learn, “…I never hesitated to convey the truth as it is, without distortion or misrepresentation, hoping that God would witness those who remained silent.”
Al-Sharif, whose X account confirmed greater than 500,000 followers, posted on the platform minutes earlier than his dying that Israel had been intensely bombarding Gaza City for greater than two hours.
Calling Al-Sharif “one of Gaza’s bravest journalists,” Al Jazeera mentioned the assault “is a desperate attempt to silence voices in anticipation of the occupation of Gaza.”
“Anas al-Sharif and his colleagues were among the last remaining voices in Gaza conveying the tragic reality to the world,” Al Jazeera mentioned.
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What did the IDF declare?
Israel’s navy claimed accountability for the assassination in an announcement, alleging al-Sharif led a unit of Hamas’s armed wing, a declare Al Jazeera described as false.
“STRUCK: Hamas terrorist Anas Al-Sharif, who posed as an Al Jazeera journalist Al-Sharif was the head of a Hamas terrorist cell and advanced rocket attacks on Israeli civilians and IDF troops. Intelligence and documents from Gaza, including rosters, terrorist training lists and salary records, prove he was a Hamas operative integrated into Al Jazeera. A press badge isn’t a shield for terrorism,” the IDF mentioned in a publish on X.
(With inputs from Reuters and AFP)
