Global outrage mounts against Israel as funeral held for Al Jazeera journals killed in Gaza | World News
The death of Al Jazeera journal Anas al-Sharif, along with four of his colleagues in Gaza City near the Al-Shifa hospital on late Sunday evening in an Israeli airstrike has prompted a global condemnation as hundreds of mourners gathered to be part of the journals’ funeral through the streets of Gaza.
Al Jazeera’s correspondent Sharif and Mohammed Qreiqeh, along with cameraperson Ibrahim Zaher, Mohammed Noufal and Moamen Aliwa were in a tent meant for journals near the Al-Shifa hospital’s main gate, when the Israeli strikes targeted the area and killed all five of them. A total of seven people were killed in the attack carried out the Israeli military.
According to Wadi Abu al-Saud, a local Palestinian journal, the attack took place around 11:22pm (local time) on Sunday, soon after he had finished his evening bulletin.
Crowds of Palestinians have attended the funerals of five Al Jazeera journals assassinated Israel in a targeted attack on their press tent outside al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City. pic.twitter.com/H49Hc8PLxL
— Al Jazeera English (@AJEnglish) August 11, 2025
Saud, who was near the tent at the time of the Israeli strike on Sunday, said “I entered the tent opposite theirs, raised my phone to make a call, and then the explosion occurred. A piece of shrapnel hit my phone. I looked back and saw people burning in flames. I tried to extinguish them. Anas and the others had died instantly from the strike,” The Guardian reported.
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The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) has acknowledged carrying out the targeted strikes against Al Jazeera journals, wherein it claimed that Sharif was the leader of a Hamas cell responsible for rocket attacks against Israel, an allegation which Al Jazeera had previously refuted and said as baseless.
Two weeks prior to IDF’s strikes, Al Jazeera had condemned Israel military’s “campaign of incitement” against its reporters in Gaza, including the deceased Anas al-Sharif.
As per Islam al-Za’anoun, a journal with Palestine TV and other Arab channels who took part in Al Jazeera’s journals’ funeral in Gaza City, Sunday’s attack Israel was “a turning point in the world of journalism”.
(with inputs from The Guardian)
