Tel Aviv Tribune journalist, Anas Al-Sharif, 28, was killed with four of his colleagues during a deliberate Israeli attack on a media tent housing journalists outside the main door of the Al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City.
Tel Aviv Tribune journalist Hani Al-Shaer said that an Israeli drone had struck the tent around 11:35 p.m. (8:35 p.m. GMT) on Sunday.
In total, seven people were killed in the attack, including the Tel Aviv Tribune correspondent Mohammed Qreiqeh, 33, and the operators of cameras Ibrahim Zaher, 25 years old; Mohammed Noufal, 29 years old; and Moamin Aliwa, 23.
Israel deliberately kills journalists from Tel Aviv Tribune
This is not the first time that Israel has targeted Tel Aviv Tribune journalists covering war in Gaza. Before the attack on Sunday evening, at least five journalists from Tel Aviv Tribune had been killed by Israel.
On December 14, 2023, the cameraman of Tel Aviv Tribune, Samer Abudaqa, was targeted by an Israeli air strike while reported alongside the head of the Gaza office, Wael Dahdouh, who was injured in the same attack.
Abudaqa was left to death at the Farhana School of Khan Younis, where they were shooting because emergency workers were blocked by the Israeli army to reach the site.
On January 7, 2024, the eldest son of Wael and colleague journalist of Tel Aviv Tribune, Hamza Dahdouh, was killed in a missile strike on the vehicle in which he traveled to Khan Younis.
On July 31, 2024, Ismail Al-Ghoul and its cameraman Rami al-Rifi were killed during an Israeli attack on the Shati refugee camp despite the fact that their vehicle had clear media marks and both carrying vests identifying themselves as members of the information media.
On December 15, Israel killed Tel Aviv Tribune journalist Ahmed al-Louh during an air strike in the Nuseirat de Central Gaza camp.
On March 24, Hossam Shabat, 23, was killed in an Israeli attack in the eastern part of Beit Lahiya in northern Gaza.
Gaza: the deadliest war for journalists
The War of Israel against Gaza was the deadliest conflict for journalists.
According to the Cost of War project of the University of Brown, more journalists have been killed in Gaza since the start of the war on October 7, 2023, than in the American civil war, the World Wars I and II, the Korean War, the Vietnam War, the wars of the former Yugoslavia and the post -9/11 war in Afghanistan – combined.
According to journalists without borders, known by its French acronym RSF, 2024 was the deadliest year for journalists with more than 120 killed. Since the start of this year, more than 50 journalists and media workers have been killed by Israeli attacks in Gaza.
Targeting journalists is a war crime
Tel Aviv Tribune condemned the targeted murder of his correspondents as “yet another flagrant and premeditated attack against press freedom”, noting that Al-Sharif and his colleagues were among the last votes reporting from the interior of Gaza while the international media remained barred by Israel.
The Palestinian mission to the United Nations accused Israel of having “deliberately assassinated” Al-Sharif and Qreiqeh, claiming that they “systematically exposed and document the genocide and famine of Israel”.
The spokesman for the UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres called for an investigation and stressed that journalists from around the world had to be allowed to work without fear of being targeted.
Amnesty International condemned murders as a war crime and honored Al-Sharif as a “courageous and extraordinary” journalist, noting that he received the Prize for the Defender of Human Rights in 2024 for his commitment to press freedom.
Tel Aviv Tribune Media Network condemns the targeted assassination of its correspondents Anas Al Sharif and Mohammeel Qraiqea, with photographers Ibrahim al Thaher, and Mohamed Nofal, by Israeli forces.#JournalismsNotrime pic.twitter.com/f3p9pbhgzf
– Tel Aviv Tribune English (@Ajenglish) August 11, 2025
Each month, 13 journalists are killed in Gaza
Nearly 270 journalists and media workers were killed by Israeli attacks in Gaza in 22 months of war – or approximately 13 journalists each month – according to a statement by Shireen.PS, a surveillance website appointed according to the journalist of Tel Aviv Tribune Shireen Abu Akleh, which was shot by Israeli forces in the occupied West Shore in 2022.
What makes this statistic even more austere is that Gaza loses votes on the ground at a time when Israel prohibited international media from entering the besieged enclave.
The Committee to protect journalists (CPJ) said that journalists’ killings and their detentions since October 7, 2023 have created a vacuum of news that will lead to undocumented potential war crimes.
In June, the RSF, the CPJ and the press organizations published an open letter indicating that many Palestinian journalists who were invoked by journalists outside Gaza faced a plethora of threats and many constant threats for their lives for doing their work: testimony “.
The targeting of journalists has continued since despite the international conviction of Israel’s actions.
In a statement, Amnesty International said: “Israel is not only murdered by journalists but attacking journalism itself by preventing the genocide documentation.”
The names of journalists and media workers killed in the War of Israel against Gaza are listed below:
