New York, August 10, 2025—The Committee to Protect Journalists is appalled by Israel’s killing in Gaza on Sunday of five Al Jazeera staff — correspondents Anas al-Sharif and Mohammed Qreiqeh and camera operators Ibrahim Zaher, Mohammed Noufal, and Moamen Aliwa — as well as freelance journalist Mohammad al-Khaldi.
The five Al Jazeera journalists were killed in a targeted strike on a tent used by media near Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City. Al-Khaldi was killed in a nearby tent, medics told reporters and eyewitness Wadeaa Abu Al-Saud told CPJ.
Mohammed Qita, a freelance reporter and camera operator who contributes to Qatari-based Al Jazeera Mubasher, and Mohamad Subuh, a correspondent for the pro-Fatah broadcaster Al-Kofiya TV, told CPJ that they were also injured. In a statement announcing the killing of al-Sharif, Israel’s military accused the journalist of heading a Hamas cell and of “advancing rocket attacks against Israeli civilians and [Israeli] troops.” Israel has a longstanding, documented pattern of accusing journalists of being terrorists without providing any credible proof.
“Israel is murdering the messengers,” said CPJ Regional Director Sara Qudah. “Israel wiped out an entire news crew. It has made no claims that any of the other journalists were terrorists. That’s murder. Plain and simple.” “It is no coincidence that the smears against al-Sharif — who has reported night and day for Al Jazeera since the start of the war — surfaced every time he reported on a major development in the war, most recently the starvation brought about by Israel’s refusal to allow sufficient aid into the territory,” Qudah said, adding that the famine has been independently corroborated by aid workers and medics, despite Israel’s refusal to let foreign reporters into Gaza.
Al-Sharif had been one of Al Jazeera’s best-known reporters in Gaza since October 2023, and one of several journalists whom Israel had previously alleged were members of Hamas, without providing evidence. In a July 24 video, Avichay Adraee, an Israel Defense Forces spokesperson, accused al-Sharif of having been a member of Hamas’s military wing, Al-Qassam, since 2013 and working during the war “for the most criminal and offensive channel.”
CPJ called for Al-Sharif‘s protection in a July statement, in which he told CPJ that “Adraee’s campaign is not only a media threat or an image destruction; it is a real-life threat.” He said, “All of this is happening because my coverage of the crimes of the Israeli occupation in the Gaza Strip harms them and damages their image in the world. They accuse me of being a terrorist because the occupation wants to assassinate me morally.”
With Sunday’s killing of six journalists, 192 journalists have been killed since the start of the Israeli-Gaza war on October 7, 2023. At least 184 of those journalists were Palestinians killed by Israel. The August 10 attack raises the number of Al Jazeera staff journalists killed by Israel in Gaza during the war to 11, in addition to eight journalists who freelanced with the media organization, according to CPJ data.
“If Israel can kill the most prominent Gazan journalist, then it can kill anyone. The world needs to see these deadly attacks on journalists inside Gaza, as well as its censorship of journalists in Israel and the West Bank, for what they are: a deliberate and systematic attempt to cover up Israel’s actions,” said Qudah. “Israel has killed more journalists in the 22 months since the start of the war than were killed worldwide in the preceding three years. Deliberately targeting journalists is a war crime under international law. This massacre must end.”
CPJ emailed the IDF’s North America Media Desk to request comment on the killings and additional detail on the terrorism allegations but did not immediately receive any response.
https://cpj.org/2025/08/israel-kills-al-jazeera-journalists-in-targeted-gaza-city-airstrike/
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Gaza and the End of Western Fantasy
New Footage Exposes Ragtag US Mercenaries Firing Toward Gaza Aid Seekers
A Massive Database of Evidence, compiled by a Historian, Documents Israel’s War Crimes in Gaza
Pankaj Mishra: The Shoah after Gaza
Juan Cole: Israel’s Gaza Atrocity by the Numbers
Rashid Khalidi: ‘Israel Has Created a Nightmare Scenario for Itself. The Clock Is Ticking’
After the truth-shower 