An Al Jazeera journalist who was killed by an Israeli air raid in the Gaza Strip was the leader of a “terrorist cell” of Hamas, announced the Israel defense forces.
Anas al-Sharif and four of his colleagues-geidified by Al Jazeera as correspondent Mohammed Qreiqeh and camera operators Ibrahim Zaher, Mohammed Noufal and Moamen Aliwa Berierven Sunday in what the Qatari-Based Network called in Gaza-Based Israeli.
“The IDF hit the terrorist Anas Al-Sharif, who presented himself as a journalist for the Al Jazeera network,” the Israeli army said in a statement. “Anas al-Sharif served as the head of a terrorist cell in the Hamas-terrorist organization and was responsible for promoting rocket attacks against Israeli citizens and IDF troops.
The IDF also said that the “previously revealed information information and many documents in the Gaza Strip” that confirmed the military ties of Al-Sharif with Hamas, from which “the Al Jazeera network tried to distinguish itself.”
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This undated recent image, from Video-Uitens by the Al Jazeera television station based in Qatari, shows the Arab-language correspondent of the network, Anas al-Sharif, reporting about camera in Gaza. Al-Sharif and four other Al Jazeera employees were found dead after an Israeli drone attack on their tent in Gaza City shortly before midnight on Sunday. (Al Jazeera via AP)
“Intelligence and documents from Gaza, including schedules, terrorist training lists and salary records, prove that he was a Hamas operatively integrated in Al Jazeera,” the IDF posted on X. “A press badge is not a shield for terrorism.”
Al Jazeera and Al-Sharif have previously rejected statements of his connection with Hamas, according to Reuters.
“Al Jazeera Media Network condemns the targeted murder of his correspondents Anas al-Sharif and Mohammed Qreiqeh in the strongest terms … by the Israeli occupation forces in another flagrant and with pre-made Rade on freedom,” ” said the network.
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Palestinians inspect the destroyed tent where journalists, including Al Jazeera correspondents Anas Al-Sharif and Mohammed Qreiqeh, were found dead after an Israeli air attack outside the Shifa Hospital complex of the Gaza City on Monday 11 August 2025. (AP/Jehad Alshrafi)
“Anas and his colleagues belonged to the last remaining voices from Gaza, who was not filtered by the world, on the spot of the devastating realities that were endured by his people who were housed by their hunger, by the hunger and silence of their lens, was added.
The UN office of the UN Also wrote on x That it condemned the murders and called for “immediate, safe and unhindered access to Gaza for all journalists.”
Al Jazeera journalist Anas Al-Sharif, who was killed in an Israeli strike on 10 August 2025, is on a landfill while he reports the news in Gaza City on 13 August 2024. (Reuters/Dawoud Abu Alkas)
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The IDF said that the documents it found in the Gaza Strip “Personnel schedules, lists of terrorist training courses, telephone guiders and salary documents for the terrorist and unambiguously evidence provide that [Al-Sharif] Serves as a military terrorist in Hamas in the Gaza Strip. “
