This came in a brief statement published by the syndicate on its KSA account following the killing of Al-Sharif, Qreiqeh, and three other members of the channel's crew in an Israeli airstrike that targeted a journalists' tent near Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, north of the Strip.
For its part, the Government Media Office in Gaza affirmed that the occupation's assassination of journalists in Gaza City, including Al-Sharif and Qreiqea, is "a prelude to the occupation's criminal plan to cover up the past and future brutal massacres it has carried out and intends to carry out in the Strip."
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The office said in a statement that "the targeting of journalists and media institutions by occupation aircraft is a full-fledged war crime aimed at silencing the truth and obliterating the traces of genocide."
The statement called on the International Federation of Journalists, the Arab Journalists Union, and "all international journalistic and human rights bodies around the world to condemn these crimes and take urgent action to ensure full protection for Palestinian journalists and media institutions in Gaza, and to hold the occupation leaders accountable for their crimes against press freedom and the right to access information."
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For its part, Hamas mourned the martyred journalists on Sunday evening, stating that they had joined the 232 journalists killed by Israel since the start of the war, in the most widespread targeting of journalists the world has ever seen. Hamas asserted that the operation followed direct threats against the victims in an attempt to silence the voice of truth.
In a statement, the movement stressed that "the continued targeting of journalists in the Gaza Strip is a message of criminal terrorism to the entire world and an indicator of the complete collapse of the system of international values and laws."
She considered that "the international silence encouraged the (Israeli) occupation to continue killing journalists without deterrence or accountability."
Late Sunday evening, Al Jazeera correspondents Anas al-Sharif and Mohammed Qreiqeh, along with three other members of the channel's crew, were killed in an Israeli airstrike that targeted a journalists' tent near Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, in the northern part of the Strip.
The martyrdom of Al-Sharif and his colleagues comes two days after the Israeli government approved a plan early Friday morning to occupy the entire Gaza Strip, as part of a war of extermination that has been ongoing for the 22nd month.
