{"id":28597,"date":"2025-08-11T08:24:38","date_gmt":"2025-08-11T02:39:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=28597"},"modified":"2025-08-11T08:24:38","modified_gmt":"2025-08-11T02:39:38","slug":"five-al-jazeera-journalists-killed-in-israeli-strike-near-gaza-citys-al-shifa-hospital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/five-al-jazeera-journalists-killed-in-israeli-strike-near-gaza-citys-al-shifa-hospital\/","title":{"rendered":"Five Al Jazeera journalists killed in Israeli strike near Gaza City&#8217;s Al-Shifa hospital"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>BBC News: Five Al Jazeera journalists have been killed in an Israeli strike near Gaza City&#8217;s Al-Shifa Hospital, the broadcaster has said.<\/p>\n<p>Correspondents Anas al-Sharif and Mohammed Qreiqeh, plus cameramen Ibrahim Zaher, Mohammed Noufal and Moamen Aliwa were in a tent for journalists at the hospital&#8217;s main gate when it was targeted, Al Jazeera reported.<\/p>\n<p>The &#8220;targeted assassination&#8221; was &#8220;yet another blatant and premeditated attack on press freedom&#8221;, it said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>Shortly after the strike, the IDF confirmed that it had struck Anas al-Sharif, posting on Telegram that he had &#8220;served as the head of a terrorist cell in Hamas&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The IDF did not mention any of the other journalists who were killed.<\/p>\n<p>In total, seven people died in the strike, Al Jazeera reports. The broadcaster initially said that four of its staff had been killed, but revised it to five a few hours later.<\/p>\n<p>Its managing editor, Mohamed Moawad, told the BBC that al-Sharif was an accredited journalist who was &#8220;the only voice&#8221; for the world to know what was happening in the Gaza Strip.<\/p>\n<p>Throughout the war, Israel has not allowed international journalists into Gaza to report freely. Therefore, many outlets rely on local reporters within Gaza for coverage.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They were targeted in their tent, they weren&#8217;t covering from the front line,&#8221; Mr Moawad said of the Israeli strike.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The fact is that the Israeli government is wanting to silence the coverage of any channel of reporting from inside Gaza,&#8221; he told The Newsroom programme.\u00a0&#8220;This is something that I haven&#8217;t seen before in modern history.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BBC News: Five Al Jazeera journalists have been killed in an Israeli strike near Gaza City&#8217;s Al-Shifa Hospital, the broadcaster has said. Correspondents Anas al-Sharif and Mohammed Qreiqeh, plus cameramen Ibrahim Zaher, Mohammed Noufal and Moamen Aliwa were in a tent for journalists at the hospital&#8217;s main gate when it was targeted, Al Jazeera reported. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28598,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28597"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28597"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28597\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28600,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28597\/revisions\/28600"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}