Who was Anas al-Sharif, the Al Jazeera journalist killed in Israeli strike in Gaza?

Anas al-Sharif, a journalist for Al Jazeera, was killed in an Israeli strike on Sunday (August 10, 2025). While the Israeli army admitted in a press release to focusing on Anas al-Sharif by labelling him as a “terrorist” affiliated with Hamas, many rights advocates stated he had been focused for his frontline reporting on the Gaza struggle.

Anas al-Sharif, 28, died after a tent for journalists exterior the primary gate of al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City was struck.

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Al Jazeera stated its correspondent, Mohammed Qreiqeh, cameraman Ibrahim Zaher, and Moamen Aliwa, and their assistant Mohammed Noufal, have been additionally killed within the assault.

Who was Anas Al Sharif?

Anas al-Sharif, an Arabic-language correspondent, had reported extensively from northern Gaza all through the present Israel-Palestine battle. His dying is amongst greater than 200 journalists reported killed because the struggle started.

The reporter leaves behind his spouse, Bayan, son, Salah, and daughter, Sham.

A press freedom group and a U.N. skilled beforehand warned that al-Sharif’s life was in peril as a result of his reporting from Gaza.

Al Jazeera stated al-Sharif had left a social media message to be posted within the occasion of his dying that learn, “…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.”

Al-Sharif, whose X account confirmed greater than 500,000 followers, posted on the platform minutes earlier than his dying that Israel had been intensely bombarding Gaza City for greater than two hours.

Calling Al-Sharif “one in every of Gaza’s bravest journalists,” Al Jazeera stated the assault “is a determined try to silence voices in anticipation of the occupation of Gaza.”

“Anas al-Sharif and his colleagues have been among the many final remaining voices in Gaza conveying the tragic actuality to the world,” Al Jazeera stated.

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What did the IDF declare?

Israel’s army claimed duty for the assassination in a press release, alleging al-Sharif led a unit of Hamas’s armed wing, a declare Al Jazeera described as false.

“STRUCK: Hamas terrorist Anas Al-Sharif, who posed as an Al Jazeera journalist Al-Sharif was the pinnacle of a Hamas terrorist cell and superior rocket assaults on Israeli civilians and IDF troops. Intelligence and paperwork from Gaza, together with rosters, terrorist coaching lists and wage data, show he was a Hamas operative built-in into Al Jazeera. A press badge isn’t a protect for terrorism,” the IDF stated in a publish on X.

(With inputs from Reuters and AFP)