August 10, 2025
Dave DeCamp
An Israeli airstrike on Sunday
night targeted a tent outside the gates of the al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City
and killed five Al Jazeera journalists, including 28-year-old Anas al-Sharif, a
well-known reporter who had a large following on X.
Al Jazeera said that the other four journalists killed in the bombing were correspondent Mohammed Qreiqeh and three cameramen: Ibrahim Zaher, Mohammed Noufal, and Moamen Aliwa. Two other people were also killed in the bombing.
Just minutes before he was killed, al-Sharif said in a post on X that Israel was escalating its bombing of Gaza City. “Relentless bombardment,” he wrote. “For two hours, the Israeli aggression has intensified on Gaza City.”
The Israeli military acknowledged that it deliberately targeted al-Sharif, claiming without evidence that he was a “Hamas terrorist” who “posed as an Al Jazeera journalist.” Last month, the Committee to Protect Journalists issued a warning about the Israeli military’s smears against Sharif, saying it was likely a precursor to his assassination.
“We are deeply alarmed by the repeated threats made by Israeli army spokesperson Avichay Adraee against Al Jazeera’s Gaza correspondent Anas al-Sharif and call on the international community to protect him,” said CPJ Regional Director Sara Qudah.
“This is not the first time Al-Sharif has been targeted by the Israeli military, but the danger to his life is now acute. Israel has killed at least six Al Jazeera journalists in Gaza during this war. These latest unfounded accusations represent an effort to manufacture consent to kill al-Sharif,” Qudah added.
In a post on X at the time, al-Sharif responded to the Israeli smears against him. “I reaffirm: I, Anas al-Sharif, am a journalist with no political affiliations. My only mission is to report the truth from the ground — as it is, without bias,” he said. “At a time when a deadly famine is ravaging Gaza, speaking the truth has become, in the eyes of the occupation, a threat.”
Al-Sharif left behind a wife and two young children. “Do not forget Gaza,” al-Sharif said in a statement he asked to have released if he were killed. “And do not forget me in your sincere prayers for forgiveness and acceptance.”
Israel has frequently targeted Palestinian journalists in Gaza throughout its genocidal war. Gaza’s Government Media Office said that the Sunday night bombing brought the total number of journalists killed in Gaza since October 7, 2023, to 237.
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The Health Ministry said the bodies of another two Palestinians killed by previous Israeli attacks were also recovered. “A number of victims are still under the rubble and on the streets, where ambulance and civil defense crews are unable to reach them at this time,” the Health Ministry said.
The majority of the dead, 35, were killed by Israeli forces while attempting to reach food aid, and another 304 aid seekers were injured. The Health Ministry said that since the US-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) began operating at the end of May, it has recorded the deaths of 1,778 aid seekers and the injury of 12,894.
According to The Associated Press, at least 15 people were killed on Sunday while waiting for aid trucks near the Morag Corridor, an Israeli-controlled strip of land that separates the southern cities of Rafah and Khan Younis. Six other people were killed trying to reach aid trucks in northern Gaza near the Zikim crossing.
At least 10 Palestinians were killed near distribution sites run by the GHF, including one near the Netzarim corridor in central Gaza and other sites near Rafah and Khan Younis in the south. Despite the risk of death, huge crowds of Palestinians still make the trek every day to GHF sites or to reach UN aid trucks, demonstrating their severe need for food.
While Israel has allowed slightly more aid to enter Gaza amid international outrage over its starvation campaign, people in Gaza continue to starve to death due to the Israeli blockade. The Health Ministry said that Gaza hospitals recorded a total of five malnutrition deaths, including two children, over 24 hours.
“Over the past 24 hours, Gaza Strip hospitals recorded five deaths, including two children, due to famine and malnutrition, bringing the total number of deaths to 217, including 100 children,” the ministry said.
The ministry said that its violent death toll since October 7, 2023, has reached 61,430, and the number of wounded has climbed to 153,213. Studies have found that the ministry’s numbers are likely a significant undercount.
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A Palestinian activist featured in the Oscar-winning documentary “No Other Land” recorded his murder by an Israeli settler. The killer was freed by an Israeli court, arguing there was a lack of evidence.
On Sunday, the Israeli human rights organization B’Tselem released a video record by Awda Hadalin of the moment he was shot and killed by Yinon Levi. There are two additional videos that show Levi point his gun and shoot Hadalin before he falls to the ground.
Director of “No Other Land,” Yuval Abraham, said the three videos leave no doubt that Levi murdered Hadalin. “There is no room for doubt. Yinon Levi killed Uda Hadalin in front of the cameras, and an entire system of Jewish superiority turned him from a perpetrator into a victim and punished the village residents instead of punishing him,” he wrote on X.
The day after the killing, an Israeli court accepted Levi’s assertion he was acting in “self-defense” and granted him house arrest. There is no evidence in the video that Levi was in danger.
He was then released from house arrest after a judge ruled the evidence backed his self-defense claim.
Israel refused to give Hadalin’s body to his family to allow for a funeral for over a week. Tel Aviv attempted to force the family to agree to limit his funeral to 15 people before giving his body to relatives. After ten days, the Israeli High Court ordered the release of Hadalin’s body.
Several members of Hadalin’s family and mourners were arrested by Israeli occupation forces. Additionally, the American-Italian nurse who attempted to provide life-saving care to Hadalin was arrested and then deported. “They don’t want people to feel comfortable helping Palestinians,” they told The Intercept.
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Among
those killed was Anas al-Sharif, a well-known reporter who was the target of an
Israeli smear campaign
Al Jazeera said that the other four journalists killed in the bombing were correspondent Mohammed Qreiqeh and three cameramen: Ibrahim Zaher, Mohammed Noufal, and Moamen Aliwa. Two other people were also killed in the bombing.
Just minutes before he was killed, al-Sharif said in a post on X that Israel was escalating its bombing of Gaza City. “Relentless bombardment,” he wrote. “For two hours, the Israeli aggression has intensified on Gaza City.”
The Israeli military acknowledged that it deliberately targeted al-Sharif, claiming without evidence that he was a “Hamas terrorist” who “posed as an Al Jazeera journalist.” Last month, the Committee to Protect Journalists issued a warning about the Israeli military’s smears against Sharif, saying it was likely a precursor to his assassination.
“We are deeply alarmed by the repeated threats made by Israeli army spokesperson Avichay Adraee against Al Jazeera’s Gaza correspondent Anas al-Sharif and call on the international community to protect him,” said CPJ Regional Director Sara Qudah.
“This is not the first time Al-Sharif has been targeted by the Israeli military, but the danger to his life is now acute. Israel has killed at least six Al Jazeera journalists in Gaza during this war. These latest unfounded accusations represent an effort to manufacture consent to kill al-Sharif,” Qudah added.
In a post on X at the time, al-Sharif responded to the Israeli smears against him. “I reaffirm: I, Anas al-Sharif, am a journalist with no political affiliations. My only mission is to report the truth from the ground — as it is, without bias,” he said. “At a time when a deadly famine is ravaging Gaza, speaking the truth has become, in the eyes of the occupation, a threat.”
Al-Sharif left behind a wife and two young children. “Do not forget Gaza,” al-Sharif said in a statement he asked to have released if he were killed. “And do not forget me in your sincere prayers for forgiveness and acceptance.”
Israel has frequently targeted Palestinian journalists in Gaza throughout its genocidal war. Gaza’s Government Media Office said that the Sunday night bombing brought the total number of journalists killed in Gaza since October 7, 2023, to 237.
Gaza
hospitals also recorded another five starvation deaths
Gaza’s Health Ministry said on
Sunday that Israeli forces killed 59 Palestinians and wounded 363 over the
previous 24-hour period as US-backed Israeli attacks continue across the Strip
and as Israel is planning to escalate its genocidal war.The Health Ministry said the bodies of another two Palestinians killed by previous Israeli attacks were also recovered. “A number of victims are still under the rubble and on the streets, where ambulance and civil defense crews are unable to reach them at this time,” the Health Ministry said.
The majority of the dead, 35, were killed by Israeli forces while attempting to reach food aid, and another 304 aid seekers were injured. The Health Ministry said that since the US-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) began operating at the end of May, it has recorded the deaths of 1,778 aid seekers and the injury of 12,894.
According to The Associated Press, at least 15 people were killed on Sunday while waiting for aid trucks near the Morag Corridor, an Israeli-controlled strip of land that separates the southern cities of Rafah and Khan Younis. Six other people were killed trying to reach aid trucks in northern Gaza near the Zikim crossing.
At least 10 Palestinians were killed near distribution sites run by the GHF, including one near the Netzarim corridor in central Gaza and other sites near Rafah and Khan Younis in the south. Despite the risk of death, huge crowds of Palestinians still make the trek every day to GHF sites or to reach UN aid trucks, demonstrating their severe need for food.
While Israel has allowed slightly more aid to enter Gaza amid international outrage over its starvation campaign, people in Gaza continue to starve to death due to the Israeli blockade. The Health Ministry said that Gaza hospitals recorded a total of five malnutrition deaths, including two children, over 24 hours.
“Over the past 24 hours, Gaza Strip hospitals recorded five deaths, including two children, due to famine and malnutrition, bringing the total number of deaths to 217, including 100 children,” the ministry said.
The ministry said that its violent death toll since October 7, 2023, has reached 61,430, and the number of wounded has climbed to 153,213. Studies have found that the ministry’s numbers are likely a significant undercount.
A Palestinian activist featured in the Oscar-winning documentary “No Other Land” recorded his murder by an Israeli settler. The killer was freed by an Israeli court, arguing there was a lack of evidence.
On Sunday, the Israeli human rights organization B’Tselem released a video record by Awda Hadalin of the moment he was shot and killed by Yinon Levi. There are two additional videos that show Levi point his gun and shoot Hadalin before he falls to the ground.
Director of “No Other Land,” Yuval Abraham, said the three videos leave no doubt that Levi murdered Hadalin. “There is no room for doubt. Yinon Levi killed Uda Hadalin in front of the cameras, and an entire system of Jewish superiority turned him from a perpetrator into a victim and punished the village residents instead of punishing him,” he wrote on X.
The day after the killing, an Israeli court accepted Levi’s assertion he was acting in “self-defense” and granted him house arrest. There is no evidence in the video that Levi was in danger.
He was then released from house arrest after a judge ruled the evidence backed his self-defense claim.
Israel refused to give Hadalin’s body to his family to allow for a funeral for over a week. Tel Aviv attempted to force the family to agree to limit his funeral to 15 people before giving his body to relatives. After ten days, the Israeli High Court ordered the release of Hadalin’s body.
Several members of Hadalin’s family and mourners were arrested by Israeli occupation forces. Additionally, the American-Italian nurse who attempted to provide life-saving care to Hadalin was arrested and then deported. “They don’t want people to feel comfortable helping Palestinians,” they told The Intercept.
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