At least seven journalists were reportedly killed late on Sunday night, August 10, 2025, in an Israeli strike that Al Jazeera says was a desperate attempt to silence voices ahead of the occupation of Gaza.
Four of the journalists killed were from the Al Jazeera news network
According to the Israeli military, they targeted and killed Al Jazeera journalist, Anas Al-Sharif
Anas Al-Sharif is a prominent journalist who has extensively covered the war from inside Gaza. He was killed after the Israeli military accused him of leading a Hamas cell, an allegation he had previously denied.
Al Jazeera says in a statement that its other journalist covering the war in Gaza, Mohammed Qreiqeh, and photojournalists Ibrahim Al Thaher and Mohamed Nofal were also killed in the Israeli strike.
According to Al Jazeera in its statement, “The order to kill Anas Al-Sharif, one of Gaza’s bravest journalists, along with his colleagues, is a desperate attempt to silence voices ahead of the occupation of Gaza.”
In the minutes before he was killed, Al-Sharif says on social media, “If this madness does not end, Gaza will be reduced to ruins, its people’s voices silenced, their faces erased — and history will remember you as silent witnesses to a genocide you chose not to stop.”
The Al-Shifa Hospital Director, Dr. Mohammad Abu Salmiya, is reported to have said Al-Sharif was in a tent with other journalists near the entrance to the hospital when he was killed.
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The killings comes after the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) accused Al-Sharif of leading a Hamas cell in Gaza that “advanced rocket attacks against Israeli civilians and IDF troops.”
The IDF had previously shown documents it claimed showed “unequivocal proof” of Al-Sharif’s ties to Hamas. “The IDF had previously disclosed intelligence information and many documents found in the Gaza Strip, confirming his military affiliation to Hamas,” the Israeli military stated in a statement after the deadly strike.
The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) says in July 2025 that they were “gravely worried” for Al-Sharif’s safety and that the journalist feared for his life after he was the target of “an Israeli military smear campaign, which he believes is a precursor to his assassination.”
According to CPJ, at least 186 journalists have been killed since the start of the war nearly two years ago.
The Committee said “178 of those journalists are Palestinians killed by Israel.”