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Israel assassinates prominent Al Jazeera journalists in Gaza <article data-history-node-id="426983" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israel-assassinates-prominent-al-jazeera-journalists-gaza" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israel-assassinates-prominent-al-jazeera-journalists-gaza" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">Israel assassinates prominent Al Jazeera journalists in Gaza</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p><a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/countries/israel" target="_blank">Israeli</a> forces assassinated two of Gaza’s leading journalists and their entire crew on Sunday night, signalling the likely start of a major assault on Gaza City.</p> <p data-end="388" data-start="144">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.</p> <p data-end="388" data-start="144">Cameramen and photojournalists Ibrahim Zaher, Mohammed Noufal and Mosaab Al Sharif were also killed.</p> <p data-end="642" data-start="390">Al Sharif, 28, was based outside the hospital’s main gate, reporting extensively from northern Gaza.</p> <p data-end="434" data-start="163">Shortly before his death, Al Sharif <a href="https://x.com/AnasAlSharif0/status/1954640127780872468" target="_blank">posted</a> 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.</p> <p data-end="601" data-start="372">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.</p> <p data-end="663" data-start="436">The killing of the five media workers comes days after Israel’s security cabinet <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israeli-cabinet-approves-plan-occupy-gaza" target="_blank">approved a plan to occupy</a> the Gaza Strip. The operation aims to seize Gaza City and forcibly clear its nearly one million Palestinian residents.</p> <h3 data-end="434" data-start="163">Read more:<a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israel-kills-two-leading-gaza-journalists-suspected-prelude-assault"> Israel assassinates prominent Al Jazeera journalists in Gaza</a></h3> <figure role="group" class="media-block"> <div class="group-inner"> <div alt="Al Jazeera correspondents Mohammed Qraiqea (L) and Anas al Sharif (R)" data-embed-button="file_browser" data-entity-embed-display="image:image" data-entity-embed-display-settings="{" data-entity-type="file" data-entity-uuid="75553d62-a4bc-4591-b60b-be881d375530" data-langcode="en" class="embedded-entity"> <img src="https://www.middleeasteye.net/sites/default/files/images-story/Screenshot%202025-08-10%20at%2023.06.55.png" width="1563" height="879" alt="Al Jazeera correspondents Mohammed Qraiqea (L) and Anas al Sharif (R)" typeof="foaf:Image" fetchpriority="high"> </div> <figcaption>Al Jazeera correspondents Mohammed Qraiqea (L) and Anas al Sharif (R)</figcaption> </div> </figure> <p><span style="background: url("https://www.middleeasteye.net/modules/contrib/ckeditor/vendor/plugins/widget/images/handle.png") rgba(220, 220, 220, 0.5); top: -15px; left: 0px;"><img height="15" role="presentation" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAPABAP///wAAACH5BAEKAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAICRAEAOw==" title="Click and drag to move" width="15" loading="lazy"></span></p> </div> </div> </article> https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israel-assassinates-prominent-al-jazeera-journalists-gaza