Israeli airstrike kills five Al Jazeera journalists in Gaza City

Five Al Jazeera journalists and a local freelancer were killed Sunday in Gaza City when an Israeli airstrike struck a tent near Al-Shifa Hospital, authorities said, a strike that also underscored the peril journalists face covering the war and drew renewed international condemnation. The deceased included Anas al-Sharif, Mohammed Qreiqeh and camera operators Ibrahim Zaher, Mohammed Noufal and Moamen Aliwa, alongside freelance reporter Mohammed al-Khaldi. The attack occurred as media teams were reporting from a tent opposite the hospital complex, a site described by colleagues and observers as a focal point for frontline coverage of the humanitarian crisis unfolding in Gaza.

Those deaths followed an official claim from the Israeli military that al-Sharif had led a Hamas terrorist cell, a charge that Al Jazeera and the journalist’s colleagues rejected as baseless and dangerous. Al-Sharif’s final publicly shared posts and broadcasts had focused on the war’s humanitarian toll, including the starvation and hunger gripping Gaza, and his colleagues noted that he never hesitated to convey the truth as he saw it. The network described the strike as a targeted assassination and said the...