The Palestinian journalist Anas Al Sharif died in an Israeli bombing in Gaza

The Israeli army killed the Palestinian journalist on August 10 Anas al SharifReporter of the Catarí chain Al Jazeera, in a precision bombing in the city of Gaza, confirmed both the armed forces and journalists in the strip.

“Recently, in the city of Gaza, the army attacked the terrorist Anas al Sharif, who was passed through a journalist from the Catarí chain to the Jazeera,” he collected a military statement. Israel had already pointed to the journalist, one of the best known of the enclave, on several occasionsalthough he has never presented verifiable evidence of his affiliation to a militia.

Shortly before midnight from Sunday to Monday, Al Jazeera spread that the Sharif had died in A bombardment against the tent for journalists Located near the Shifa hospital, in the Gazatí capital.

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Just half an hour before, the journalist published in his own profile of the social network X a video showing the proximity of the bombings that whipped at that time to the city of Gaza, accompanied by the text: “Bombing without stopping … For two hours, Israeli aggression intensifies in the city of Gaza”.

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Shortly before losing life, Sharif also shared on social networks another text about the expansion of the Israeli offensive in the capital: “If this madness does not end, Gaza will be reduced to ruins; the voices of its people, silenced; Their faces, erased. And the story will remember them as silent witnesses of a genocide they decided not to stop. “

Together with Sharif, three more journalists died, according to Al Jazeera: The reporter Mohammed Qreiquea (also of the Catarí chain) and the photographers Ibrahim Zaher and Mohamed Aliwain addition to its driver, Mohammed Nofal, to which the Gazatí government also pointed out as an assistant photojournalist.

Settled images moments after the attack show Al Sharif with the face and part of the destroyed body, as well as the body of Qreiqeh. Shortly after, another video showed dozens of men by moving one of the crowded bodies (presumably that of Al Sharif) among “Allah is great”.

With them five, The Gazati government count of dead informants because of the Israeli offensive amounts to 237in a list that includes journalists, ‘influencers’ and other content creators.

Alleged link to Hamas

The Israeli army has assured that Sharif was linked to the Islamist group Hamás, presenting as evidence two documents whose origin has not detailed and that cannot be verified.

One of them is entitled ‘Hamás operations list in the North Brigade of the Gaza Strip’. It is recorded that was injured in 2019 As a member of the group, which he allegedly joined in 2013, with 17 years.

Another document in which affectations of alleged members of the organization include an entry in which the Sharif is injured by an explosion in 2017.

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The EFE agency consulted regarding the origin of the documents or if the rest of the deaths had some type of link to a militia, But the army did not pronounce.

When in October 2024 Israel first published the documents warning that Sharif was one of its objectives, the NGO Reporteros Without Borders (RSF) concluded: “The mere publication of these documents does not constitute sufficient evidence of affiliation or license to kill”.

In addition, shortly before the Israeli army killed another jazeera journalist, Ismail al Ghoul, presenting similar evidence that RSF described as inconsistent.

The Catarí chain is the main foreign medium that reports from the enclave (not allowing Israel access to the international press independently), as well as one of the most important in the Arab world. Israel prohibited its broadcast in its territory.