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11 Aug 2025 – Israel has killed nearly 270 journalists and media workers since it launched its genocidal assault on Gaza. Al Jazeera<\/p><\/div>\n

13 Aug 2025\u00a0<\/em>–\u00a0The Israeli military just assassinated six Palestinian journalists in a targeted strike, among them beloved Al Jazeera<\/em> correspondent Anas al-Sharif, one of the most prominent journalists still reporting from Gaza.<\/p>\n

Like the other 200+ Palestinian journalists it has killed since the genocide began, the Israeli military murdered Anas and his colleagues for showing the world the truth about the genocide. We honor their memories by remembering them not in death, but in the precious lives they lived.<\/p>\n

Israel\u2019s war on the press<\/strong><\/h3>\n

On Sunday, August 10, the Israeli military assassinated<\/a> six reporters in Gaza City, four of whom were journalists at Al Jazeera<\/em>: Correspondents Anas al-Sharif and Mohammed Qreiqeh and cameramen Ibrahim Zaher and Mohammed Noufal, as well as freelance cameramen Momen Aliwa and freelance journalist Mohammed al-Khalidi.<\/p>\n

The Israeli military has been deliberately targeting journalists in Gaza since the very first days of the genocide. To date, it has killed nearly 270 journalists and media workers, according to Al Jazeera<\/em>. That\u2019s more journalists killed<\/a> than in the U.S. Civil War, World Wars I and II, the Korean War, Vietnam War, the wars in the former Yugoslavia, and the 2000s war in Afghanistan, combined<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Journalists\u2019 families aren\u2019t safe, either. In October 2023, just a few weeks into the genocide, an Israeli strike on the home of Al Jazeera<\/em>\u2019s Gaza City Burea Chief, Wael Dahdouh, killed<\/a> his wife Amna, his 15-year-old son Mahmoud, his 7-year-old daughter Sham, and his 1-year-old grandson Adam. Less than a year later, the Israeli military targeted and killed Dahdouh\u2019s eldest son, Hamza \u2014 also a reporter for Al Jazeera<\/em> \u2014 as he was returning from an assignment.<\/p>\n

Smeared as terrorists<\/strong><\/h3>\n

The Israeli military didn\u2019t hesitate to take credit for Sunday\u2019s massacre. Like clockwork, it reiterated a widely condemned accusation it first made in October 2024, claiming that al-Sharif was targeted because he was a \u201cterrorist.\u201d Throughout the genocide, the Israeli government has used accusations of terrorism to discredit and target Palestinian journalists. Unsurprisingly, it seldom if ever provides evidence for such claims.<\/p>\n

In July 2024, the Israeli military carried out a targeted strike on the car of two other Al Jazeera<\/em> journalists, Ismail al-Ghoul and his cameraman, Rami al-Rifi<\/a>, killing both men. The very next day, the Israeli military accused al-Ghoul of being a terrorist.<\/p>\n

In March 2025, the Israeli military killed 23-year-old Al Jazeera<\/em> journalist Hossam Shabbat in a targeted strike. He was one of six journalists \u2014 among them Anas al-Sharif \u2014 named in an Israeli government list of \u201cterrorists\u201d that it released in October 2024: effectively a hit list<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cKilled for nothing more than telling the truth\u201d<\/strong><\/h3>\n

For nearly two years, Palestinian journalists in Gaza have been reporting under unimaginable circumstances. Deliberately targeted by the Israeli military and discredited and ignored by many of their Western colleagues, they have made enormous sacrifices \u2014 and in many cases, given their lives \u2014 to share the reality of Israel\u2019s genocide with the world.<\/p>\n

Mere weeks before he was killed, Anas al-Sharif broke down on live air<\/a> while reporting on the Israeli government-induced famine ravaging Gaza. \u201cPeople are now collapsing in the streets from hunger,\u201d he reported through tears. Off camera, a man urged al-Sharif to keep going: \u201cContinue the coverage. You are our voices.\u201d The clip quickly went viral, helping expose the severity of the famine to the world.<\/p>\n

We are forever indebted to these journalists, without whom the world would know far less about Israel\u2019s genocide. We honor their memories by remembering them not in death, but in the precious lives they lived \u2014 and in their courageous acts of defiance against a regime bent on their annihilation.<\/p>\n

Anas al-Sharif <\/strong>was a 29-year-old correspondent for Al Jazeera<\/em> and one of the most well-known journalists still reporting from the frontlines of the genocide in Gaza. Born in Gaza\u2019s Jabalia refugee camp, al-Sharif was only 11 when Israel imposed its suffocating blockade on Gaza in 2007, and he was a teenager when Israel launched its devastating war on Gaza in 2014.<\/p>\n

Al-Sharif was a married father of two, leaving behind his wife, Bayan, his four-year-old daughter, Sham, and his one-year-old son, Salah. During a temporary \u201cceasefire\u201d in January 2025, he was reunited with his family after 15 months of separation \u2014 and met his infant son for the first time.<\/p>\n

In December 2023, after Israeli military officials called al-Sharif and warned him to stop reporting, his 90-year-old father was killed<\/a> in an Israeli strike on his home. Still, al-Sharif continued reporting. In October 2024, Israel accused him and five other Al Jazeera<\/em> journalists of being terrorists. Knowing he could soon be dead, al-Sharif prepared a final message<\/a>, to be shared in the event that he is killed by the Israeli military.<\/p>\n

\u201cI have lived through pain in all its details, tasted suffering and loss many times, yet I never once hesitated to convey the truth as it is,\u201d he wrote. \u201cDo not forget Gaza.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Read Anas al-Sharif\u2019s reflections in Drop Site News<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n

Hossam Shabbat<\/strong> was a 23-year-old correspondent for Al Jazeera<\/em>. He was only 21 when Israel launched its genocidal war on Gaza \u2014 in his own words, \u201ca college student with dreams like anyone else.\u201d<\/p>\n

Shabbat was one of the few reporters in Gaza who refused to leave the north, even when death was imminent. He was displaced over twenty times during the course of the genocide, and in November 2024, he was injured in an Israeli airstrike. But he never stopped reporting. \u201cHis writing was lyrical and arresting,\u201d wrote Sharif Abdel Kouddous, Shabbat\u2019s editor at Drop Site News<\/em>. \u201cI struggled to translate and edit his pieces\u2014to do them justice.\u201d In February 2025, less than a month before his death, Shabbat was reunited with his mother after over a year of separation:<\/p>\n

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Finally reunited with my mother after 492 days, I\u2019m finally hugging my mom. pic.twitter.com\/kPzHytFXWy<\/a><\/p>\n

— \u062d\u0633\u0627\u0645 \u0634\u0628\u0627\u062a (@HossamShabat) February 11, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n