Israeli Strike Kills Al Jazeera Correspondent Anas al-Sharif as Toll on Gaza’s Journalists Mounts"
Audoz Buzz — Special Report Dateline: August 11, 2025 — In a devastating escalation, Anas al-Sharif, a 28-year-old Al Jazeera Arabic correspondent, was among five journalists killed in an Israeli airstrike targeting a press tent near Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City. His colleague Mohamed Qreiqeh, along with cameramen Ibrahim Zaher, Moamen Aliwa, and Mohamed Noufal, were also tragically killed in the attack . This marked the first instance in this conflict where the Israeli military promptly acknowledged responsibility for a strike that resulted in a journalist’s death—describing al-Sharif as a Hamas militant, accusations that Al Jazeera, the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), and UN experts have all rejected as baseless . The CPJ now reports that the Gaza war has become the deadliest conflict for journalists in modern history, with at least 186 journalists killed so far . Earlier counts from other sources have even pushed fatalities past 200 or more . At a solemn funeral held ...