Who was Al Jazeera’s journalist killed by Israel in Gaza?

Five Al Jazeera journalists were killed by an Israeli blow to Gaza on Sunday-in the middle of them 28-year-old Anas Al Sharif, who reported in a prominent place in the war since his beginning.

The other four killed journalists by Al Jazeera were correspondent Mohammed Qreiqeh, and operators Ibrahim Sacher, Mohammed Nufal and Moama Aliva, Al Jazeera said.

The other two were also killed, the television operator said. Hospital officials named Mohammed Al-Haldi, a local freelance journalist as one of them.

The target attack on a tent used by journalists has attracted a strong international condemnation, including the UN, Qatar, where al Jazeera is based, and groups of media freedom.

Israel says Sharif was “the head of a Hamas terrorist cell”, but has presented little evidence to support it. Sharif deny it earlier, and Al Jazeera also rejected the statement groups.

The BBC understands that Sharif worked for a Hamas media team in Gaza before the current conflict.

In some of his publications on social media before his death, the journalist may be heard to criticize Hamas.

The Committee for Protection of Journalists CEO Jodi Ginsberg told the BBC that there was no excuse for the murder of Sharif.

“International law is very clear on this point that the only persons who are legitimate goals during the war are active fighters. Working as a media adviser for Hamas or really for Hamas at the moment does not make you an active combat,” she said.

“And nothing that Israeli forces have produced so far in terms of evidence gives us all kinds of confidence that he was even an active member of Hamas.”

Anas Al Sharif became one of Al Jazee’s most famous reporters in Gaza during the war.

Born in the densely populated area of Jabalia in the northern part of the strip, he has been working for Al Jazeera about two years, the television operator said.

“He works for the entire duration of the war within Gaza, reporting daily about the situation of people and attacks committed in Gaza,” Salah Nigm, Director of News at Al Jazeera English, told the BBC.

Married with a four -year -old daughter Sham and a one -year -old son Salah, he separated from them for long sections during the war as he continued to report from north of the territory after refusing to pursue Israeli commandments for evacuation.

A joint post on Instagram in his official account with his wife in January this year showed a photo of Sharif, smiling with his two children. The inscription stated that this was the first time he met with Salah after 15 months of war.

Sharif appeared frequently in live broadcasts, reading broadly About the Gaza situation.

He reported on targeting his colleagues including highlighted all jazeera ‘who were killed in 2024 during an air strike in Gaza.

His father was already killed in December 2023, when the family home was directed to an Israeli blow. Hours before he was killed, he published an intense Israeli bombing from Gaza.

Mohammed Moavad, managing Al Jazeera’s editor, described it as “the only voice left in Gaza” – which Israel now plans to occupy a military.

Raed Fakih, a manager of al -Jazeera Arabic Entrance, told the BBC that Sharif was “brave, dedicated and honest – this made him successful as a journalist with hundreds of thousands of followers on social media from around the world.”

Fakich, who runs the offices and correspondents of the channel, added: “His dedication took him to areas where no other reporter dared to go, especially those to whom he witnessed the senior massacres. His integrity kept him faithful to his message as a journalist.”

Fakich said he had talked to Sharif many times on the phone throughout the war.

“In our last conversations, he told me about the hunger and the hunger that he endured, how difficult it was to survive with so little food,” he said.

“He felt that he had no choice but to strengthen the voice of the Gazanas. He lived the same difficulties that live now, suffering from hunger, mourning of loved ones.

“His father was killed in an Israeli bombing. In this way he was like all Gazani: he carried loss, pain and stability. And even before death, he was persistent because it was a story that must be told.”

Mohammed Qreieh, 33, was the father of two from Gaza, the News Agency at the Associated Press reported. Like Sharif, he separated from his family for months during the war, according to the front lines in North Gaza, AP added.

Qreieh’s last live broadcast was on Sunday night, minutes before it was directed, Al Jazeera Arabic reported.

The Israeli military accused Sharif of posing as a journalist, saying he “served as a head of a Hamas terrorist cell” and was responsible for the start of missile attacks in Israeli – but this presented a little evidence to support these allegations.

In a statement, the IDF said there were documents that “unequivocally prove” his “military affiliation” with Hamas, including “staff lists, lists of terrorist training courses, telephone directories and pay documents”.

He publicly released some screenshots of spreadsheets, apparently listed Hamas’s operations from the northern Gaza lane, noting injuries to Hamas’s operatives and part of what is said to be a telephone directory for the Battalion of the Eastern Jabalia of the armed group.

Previously, Israel accused Sharif of being a member of Hamas’s military wing – something he and his employer flatly denied.

Reporters without borders (RSF), a media freedom group, said the allegations against it were “unfounded” and called on the international community to intervene.

“Without strong action by the international community to stop the Israeli army … We will probably witness more such out -of -court killings by media professionals,” RSF said.

Nearly 200 journalists were killed in the Israel war, launched in response to Hamas’s attack on October 7, 2023, according to RSF.

Fakich by Al Jazeera accused the Israeli military of creating journalists stories before killing them, to “hide what (it) is committed to Gaza.” Israel had previously denied it to go to journalists.

He described this as a “longtime model” and refers to The killing of Israeli military of a veteran Palestinian-American journalist Shirine Abu AklaWho was shot in the head during the raid of the Israeli army of the occupied West Bank in 2022.

The Israeli military came to the conclusion that one of his soldiers probably killed her, but calls her death involuntary. Al Jazeera said his evidence showed that it was a “deliberate murder”.

“Here’s a decisive fact: if Israel was held responsible for the murder of Shirine, he would not dare to kill 200 journalists in Gaza,” Fakih said.

Sharif knew he was at risk of being directed by Israel after a spokesman in Arabic posted a video of him in July and accused him of being a member of Hamas’s military wing.

In a publication published in his X account, which was previously written in the event of his death, Sharif said that “he makes every effort and all my power to be support and voice for my people … Do not forget Gaza.”