A latest Israeli airstrike killed 4 Al Jazeera journalists and two freelancers, the Qatar-based broadcaster mentioned on Tuesday, correcting its earlier report that 5 of six victims had been workers members.Initially, the community recognized correspondents Anas al-Sharif and Mohammed Qreiqeh and digital camera operators Ibrahim Zaher, Mohammed Noufal, and Moamen Aliwa as these killed in Sunday’s assault. In a corrected report on its English-language web site, Al-Jazeera clarified that Moamen Aliwa was a contract cameraman and the sixth journalist killed within the assault, Mohammed al-Khalidi was additionally a freelancer. “An earlier model of this story referred to Israel killing 5 Al Jazeera workers. The variety of Al Jazeera journalists Israel killed was 4,” Al Jazeera said. The late Sunday strike on a tent outdoors the primary gate of Gaza Metropolis’s Al Shifa hospital has drawn worldwide condemnation, and Al Jazeera has referred to as the act an “assassination.”Moments earlier than his dying, Anas al-Sharif, 28, an Al Jazeera Arabic correspondent identified for his intensive reporting from northern Gaza, posted on X that Israel was finishing up intense, concentrated bombardments, known as “fireplace belts”, on Gaza metropolis’s japanese and Southern areas.The Israeli navy acknowledged finishing up the strike, certainly one of Al Jazeera’s most recognisable correspondents, alleging he was a “terrorist” who “posed as a journalist,” stories AFP. Al Jazeera condemned the killings and rejected the allegations in opposition to Sharif, stating the Israeli assault got here after “repeated incitement and calls by a number of Israeli officers and spokespersons to focus on the fearless journalist Anas Al Sharif and his colleagues.”In a closing message dated April 6, supposed for launch within the occasion of his dying, al-Sharif wrote that he had “lived the ache in all its particulars” and had “tasted grief and loss repeatedly,” reported Al Jazeera.“Regardless of that, I by no means hesitated to convey the reality as it’s, with out distortion or misrepresentation, hoping that God would witness those that remained silent, those that accepted our killing, and people who suffocated our very breaths,” Sharif mentioned.Media watchdog Reporters With out Borders (RSF) said in early July that the warfare in Gaza has claimed the lives of over 200 journalists, together with a number of working for Al Jazeera.
