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Israel Assassinates Anas Al-Sharif, Other Journalists [1]
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Date: 2025-08-11 03:56:39
After months of threatening to assassinate the most prominent Palestinian journalist in Gaza, Anas al-Sharif, Israel on Sunday carried out its threat and killed Anas and a number of other journalists in a targeted bombing of the journalists’ tent at Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza.
Update: The slain journalists in the Israeli attack are Anas al-Sharif, Mohammad Al-Khaldi, Mohammad Qreiqe’, Mohammad Nofal, Ibrahim Taher and Mo’men ‘Oleywa.
Mohammed Al-Khaldi was also killed in the Israeli massacre that targeted a press tent in front of Al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City.
Seven Palestinians, including four journalists, were killed Sunday evening in an Israeli airstrike west of Gaza City.
According to local reports, Israeli forces directly targeted the journalists’ tent positioned outside Al-Shifa Hospital, resulting in the deaths of seven individuals. Among them were journalists Anas Al-Sharif and Mohammad Qreiqe’, correspondents for Al Jazeera, photojournalists Ibrahim Daher and Mohammad Noufal, and the crew’s driver. Journalist Mohammad Sobeh was also wounded in the attack.
Ramzi Baroud of the Palestine Chronicle wrote, “Two more journalists, Anas Al-Sharif and Mohammed Qaryaq, have been killed in Gaza. These brilliant young reporters were known for their courage and powerful commitment to the truth.
“Israel’s strategy is clear: silence the truth by murdering those who report it. They accuse journalists of being members of resistance movements to justify their deaths—a claim too often repeated without question by Western media.
“This is a deliberate war on journalism. The silence and complicity of some corporate media outlets only serve to amplify Israeli propaganda.
But they will fail. The deaths of Anas, Mohammed, and over 230 other journalists will not bury the Palestinian story. Instead, their sacrifice ensures that their voices—and their truth—will be heard more loudly than ever before.
“The intellectual and moral strength of the Palestinian narrative will not be weakened. Even the mass murder of its finest journalists cannot muffle its voice. Justice will prevail.”
Anas al-Sharif and his daughter in 2024:
A video of Anas and Mohammed and their children:
Al Jazeera made a statement:
⭕️ We condemn the premeditated assassination of our correspondents Anas Al-Sharif and Mohammad Qreiqea, and cameramen Ibrahim Daher and Mohammed Noufal.
⭕️ The killing of our journalists by Israeli occupation forces is a new, blatant, and deliberate attack on press freedom. As Al Jazeera bids farewell to another group of its finest journalists, we hold the Israeli occupation army and its government fully responsible for targeting and assassinating our team.
⭕️ The killers of journalists deliberately targeted Al Jazeera’s press tent at Al-Shifa Medical Complex, as admitted in a statement by the Israeli army. Numerous Israeli military officials have repeatedly incited and called for the targeting of Anas Al-Sharif and his colleagues.
⭕️ We call on the international community and concerned organizations to take decisive action to end the deliberate targeting of journalists.
For months, Israel has been smearing Anas Al-Sharif due to his relentless coverage of their genocide and crimes in Gaza. Anas publicly shared his will with his followers after previously reporting that Israeli forces threatened to kill him if he did not stop reporting. Now, Israel has assassinated Anas along with the remaining Al Jazeera team in Gaza.
Anas wrote this in anticipation of his assassination by Israel:
“This is my will and my final message.
If these words reach you, know that Israel has succeeded in killing me and silencing my voice.
First, peace and God’s mercy and blessings be upon you.
God knows I have given all my effort and strength to be a support and a voice for my people since I opened my eyes to life in the alleys and streets of Jabalia Refugee Camp. My hope was that God would grant me life so I could return with my family and loved ones to our original town of Ashkelon (Al-Majdal), now occupied. But God’s will was swifter, and His judgment is inevitable.
I have lived through pain in every detail, tasted grief and loss repeatedly, yet I never hesitated to convey the truth as it is—without distortion or alteration—hoping that God will witness those who remained silent, those who accepted our killing, those who suffocated our breaths, those whose hearts were unmoved by the scattered bodies of our children and women, and those who did not stop the massacre our people have suffered for over a year and a half.
I entrust you with Palestine, the jewel of the Muslim crown and the heartbeat of every free person in this world.
I entrust you with its people and its innocent children who were not granted a lifetime to dream or live in safety and peace. Their pure bodies have been crushed by thousands of tons of Israeli bombs and rockets—torn apart and scattered against the walls.
I urge you not to be silenced by chains or confined by borders. Be bridges toward liberating the land and its people until the sun of dignity and freedom rises over our stolen homeland.
I entrust you with my family.
I entrust you with the apple of my eye, my beloved daughter Sham, whom time did not allow me to see grow as I dreamed.
I entrust you with my dear son Salah, whom I wished to support and accompany until he grows stronger, carries my burdens, and continues the mission.
I entrust you with my beloved mother, whose prayers have been my strength and whose light has guided my path. I pray God eases her heart and rewards her with the best for me.
I also entrust you with my lifelong companion, my dear wife Umm Salah Bayan, whom the war separated from me for many long days and months, yet she remained steadfast like an olive tree trunk that does not bend—patient and resolute—carrying the responsibility in my absence with strength and faith.
I urge you to surround them and be a support for them after God Almighty.
If I die, I die steadfast on my principles. I bear witness to God that I am content with His decree, believing in meeting Him, and certain that what is with God is better and everlasting.
O God, accept me among the martyrs, forgive my past and future sins, and make my blood a light that illuminates the path of freedom for my people and family.
Forgive me if I fell short, and pray for me mercy, for I have remained true to my pledge, without change or abandonment.
Do not forget Gaza.
And do not forget me in your righteous prayers for forgiveness and acceptance.
Anas Jamal Al-Sharif ”
Since October 7, 2023, Israeli forces have waged a genocide in the Gaza Strip, resulting in the killing of 61,430 Palestinians—most of them children and women—and injuring 153,213 others. These figures remain incomplete, as many victims are still trapped under rubble or lying in the streets, with emergency and rescue teams unable to reach them.
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