Tel Aviv Tribune journalist, Anas Al-Sharif, was killed alongside four colleagues in an Israeli attack targeted against a tent that houses journalists from Gaza City.
Seven people were killed overall in the attack on the tent located outside the main door of the Al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City on Sunday evening. They include the correspondent of Tel Aviv Tribune Mohammed Qreiqeh and the Ibrahim Zaher, Mohammed Noufal and Moamin Aliwa cameras operators.
Shortly before being killed, Al -Sharif, a well -known Arab correspondent for 28 years from Tel Aviv Tribune, who had reported in depth from the north of Gaza, wrote on X that Israel had launched an intense and concentrated bombing – also known as “fire belts” – in the eastern and southern regions of Gaza City.
In his latest video, noisy booms in the intensive missile bombing of Israel can be heard in the background while the dark sky is lit in a flash of orange light.
قصف لا يتوقicy…
منذ ساعتين والع Chereng الإس Viagn. pic.twitter.com/yw8pestkft– أنس الشريف Anas al-Sharif (@ anasalsharif0) August 10, 2025
Translation: Bombing constantly … During the last two hours, the Israeli aggression of Gaza City intensified.
In a final message, written on April 6, which will be published in the event of death, Al-Sharif said that he “lived pain in all his details” and “tasted the sorrow and the loss several times”.
“Despite this, I never hesitated to transmit the truth as it is, without distortion or false declaration, hoping that God would have attended those who remained silent, those who accepted our murder and those who suffocated our breaths,” he said.
“Even the mutilated bodies of our children and our women did not remove their hearts or stopped the massacre to which our people have been subjected for more than a year and a half.”
The journalist also expressed his pain for having had to leave his wife, Bayan, and not to have seen his son, Salah and his daughter, Sham, Growing up.
“Desperate attempt to silence the voices”
In a statement, Tel Aviv Tribune Media Network condemned murders as “yet another flagrant and premeditated attack against press freedom”.
“This attack comes in the midst of the catastrophic consequences of the Israeli assault underway against Gaza, which saw the relentless massacre of civilians, forced famine and the erasure of entire communities,” said the network.
“The order to assassinate Anas Al Sharif, one of the bravest journalists in Gaza, and his colleagues, is a desperate attempt to silence the votes exposing the imminent seizure and occupation of Gaza.”
Tel Aviv Tribune called the international community and all the organizations concerned to “take decisive measures to stop this genocide in progress and end the deliberate targeting of journalists”.
“Tel Aviv Tribune stresses that immunity for the authors and the lack of responsibility enthaning Israel’s actions and encouraging additional oppression against witnesses to the truth,” said the network.
Tel Aviv Tribune’s correspondent Hani Mahmoud, who was only a pâté of houses when the strike struck, said that the report on the murder of Al-Sharif was the most difficult thing he had to do in the last 22 months of war.
Mahmoud, who works for the English network channel, said that journalists had been killed “because of their incessant report on famine and famine and malnutrition” suffered by the Palestinians in Gaza, “because they bring the truth of this crime to everyone”.
No evidence of affiliation of Hamas
In a statement confirming the deliberate murder of Al-Sharif, the soldiers of Israel accused the journalist of leading a Hamas cell and “advancing the attacks of rockets against Israeli civilians and (Israeli) troops”. He also alleged that he had documents providing “unequivocal evidence” of his involvement in the Palestinian group.
Muhammed Shehada, analyst in Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor, said there was “no evidence” that Al-Sharif took part in hostilities.
“All his daily routine was held in front of a camera from morning to night,” he told Tel Aviv Tribune.
Last month, after the Israeli army spokesperson Avichai Adraee cariée a video on social networks accusing Al-Sharif of being a member of the Hamas military wing, the United Nations special rapporteur on freedom of expression, Irene Khan, said that she was “deeply alarmed by threats and repeated accusations of the Israeli army” against Al-Sharif.
“Al-Sharif’s safety fears are well founded because there is more and more evidence that journalists in Gaza have been targeted and killed by the Israeli army on the basis of non-star claims that they were Hamas terrorists,” Khan said.
Tel Aviv Tribune, who accused the Israeli authorities of making evidence to link his staff to Hamas, had recently denounced the Israeli army for having led “”incitement campaignAgainst his journalists in the Gaza Strip, including Al-Sharif.
The committee to protect journalists last month said that he was seriously concerned about the journalist’s security because he was “targeted by an Israeli military defamation campaign”.
Since Israel launched his war against the enclave in October 2023, he regularly accused Palestinian journalists in Gaza of being members of Hamas in the context of what rights defense groups say they are an effort to discredit their report on Israeli abuses.
The Israeli army has killed more than 200 journalists and media workers since the start of its bombing, including several journalists from Tel Aviv Tribune and their relatives.