Al Jazeera accused Israel of having made a “targeted assassination” after five of his journalists were killed in a strike on Gaza on Sunday, rejecting the complaint of the Israeli defense force (FDI) that one of the journalists was previously a member of Hamas.
The famous Gaza journalist of the diffuser Anas Al Sharif28 years old, was killed alongside his colleagues Mohamed Qriiqeh,, Ibrahim Zaher,, Mohammed Noufal And Moamin has become When their tent near the Al Shifa hospital was affected. The government managed by Hamas in Gaza said that the “brutal and odious” attack was “premeditated and deliberate”, describing it as “a full -fledged war crime to silence the truth”.
Al Jazeera criticized the attack as a “targeted assassination” and “yet another flagrant and premeditated attack against press freedom”.
“The fact is that the Israeli government wants to silence the coverage of any Gaza interior report channel,” said Al Jazeera the editor -in -chief Mohamed Moawad BBC World Service Fair The editorial room. “This is something that I have never seen before in modern history.”
“They were targeted in their tent – they did not cover the front line,” said Moawad about the Israeli strike.
In a declaration to the Fox News correspondent Trey YingstThe FDI confirmed the strike, but underlined a spreadsheet published via X last October listing one of the men, Al-Sharif, as a member of Hamas.
Yingst added in his report that Israel had no other evidence of allegations and underlined a declaration published by Al-Sharif arguing that he “had no political affiliation”.
In another statement was released on Sunday to the press, Israeli officials said that Al Sharif “made” only “journalist and” was at the head of a terrorist cell of the terrorist organization of Hamas “, who was” responsible for the progress of attacks on Israeli civilians and TDI troops “.
The Committee to protect journalists (CPJ), however, said that Israel had not provided sufficient evidence for what it said was equivalent to a “smear campaign” against Al Sharif.
“This is a model that we have seen from Israel – not only in the current war, but in the preceding decades – in which a journalist will generally be killed by Israeli forces, then Israel will say after the fact that they are a terrorist, but provides very little evidence to support these affirmations”, CEO of the CPJ, but the CPJ PDC Jodie Ginsberg said to the BBC.
In July, Al Sharif told viewers that he lived with “the feeling that I could be bombed and martyred at any time” because its coverage ” [Israel] And damage their image in the world. »»
At least 186 media journalists and workers have been killed in Gaza since 2023, when Israel has prohibited foreign journalists from entering the territory. Israel closed Al Jazeera operations in the country last year.
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