Al Jazeera journalist Anas al-Sharif has been killed alongside four colleagues in a targeted Israeli attack on a tent housing journalists in Gaza City.

Seven people were killed in the attack on the tent located outside the main gate of Gaza City’s al-Shifa Hospital late on Sunday evening, including Al Jazeera correspondent Mohammed Qreiqeh and camera operators Ibrahim Zaher, Mohammed Noufal and Moamen Aliwa.

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    Rest in peace. And Western media still repeat the propaganda lie that Anas were a member of Hamas. What angers me the most is the implication of this.

    So let’s say being a member of Hamas automatically makes you a legitimate target and thus okay to kill, even you’re a civilian or working e.g. in the health ministry. Almost every Israeli Jewish civilian has served in the IDF, many of them are currently reservists. By that logic, October 7 was not a "terror attack“ because most people killed were associated with the IDF or with the terrorist Israeli government if they work with them or cooperate, hence they were legitimate targets. This can be concluded as we have learned that a certain amount of "collateral damage“ is to be expected, which includes elders and children. Hence, by the logic of the Zionists October 7 was a legitimate military action. If you’re disgusted by my conclusion, well that’s the disgusting logic of the Zionists.

    And now to back to the assassination of these journalists, I personally believe even if they’d have been Hamas members or whatever, there’s no justification on earth for extrajudicial executions. They had a right to live and do their job, rest in peace guys you are heroes.

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    New York, July 24, 2025 - The Committee to Protect Journalists is gravely worried about the safety of Al Jazeera Arabic’s Gaza correspondent Anas Al-Sharif, who is being targeted by an Israeli military smear campaign, which he believes is a precursor to his assassination.

    https://cpj.org/2025/07/cpj-calls-for-anas-al-sharifs-protection-in-face-of-israeli-smears/

    Rest in peace.

    I do wonder if his last tweet was, wise. It probably wouldn’t have taken Shin Bet/Mossad long to work out his exact location from it.

    If you’re a war reporter, remember OpSec. Some basement dwellers found Shia Labouf’s flag in less than a day, with the whole of North America to search they narrowed it down from cloud patterns, local air traffic and a guy driving around beeping his horn once they got it into a several mile radius.

    Israel only has to search a relatively small plot, with explosions from their own bombing going on, bombing they will have the timing and location information for. Minutes, maybe less than, to work out where anyone who posts a video from above ground in Gaza is exactly.