The director of Al-Shifa Medical Complex in Gaza reported the deaths of Al-Sharif and Qreiqeh, along with photographers Ibrahim Zaher, Mohammed Noufal, and Moamen Aliwa, as a result of an Israeli bombardment of their tent in front of Al-Shifa Medical Complex in Gaza City.
Half an hour before his martyrdom, Al Jazeera correspondent Anas Al-Sharif reported on his Twitter account that a violent, concentrated Israeli bombardment with fire belts was targeting the eastern and southern areas of Gaza City.
In the same context, the government office in the Gaza Strip condemned "the brutal, heinous, and horrific crime committed by the occupation army, assassinating five journalists following a direct bombardment of a journalists' tent near Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City."
The office added in a statement posted on its Telegram account that "the assassination was premeditated and deliberate, following a deliberate, and direct targeting of the journalists' tent near Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City. This heinous crime also resulted in the injury of a number of other fellow journalists."
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He pointed out that with the occupation's assassination of the five fellow journalists, the number of journalist martyrs killed by the occupation in the Gaza Strip during the genocide thus far has risen to 237.
Since October 7, 2023, Israel, with American support, has been committing genocide in Gaza, including killing, starvation, destruction, and forced displacement, ignoring all international calls and orders from the International Court of Justice to halt the operation.
The genocide left 61,330 Palestinian martyrs and 152,359 wounded, most of them children and women. More than 9,000 people were missing, in addition to hundreds of thousands of displaced persons and a famine that claimed the lives of many.
