Late Sunday evening, Israel’s military targeted Al Jazeera Arabic’s Gaza correspondents Anas al-Sharif, Mohammed Qreiqeh and three others, killing them in a drone strike against their media tent at the gate of al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City.The slain journalists had spent the past 22 months documenting the ongoing conflict and its impact on their community.Al-Sharif, 28, and Qreiqeh, 33, are both survived by their wives and a baby boy and a girl.Qreiqeh, who was an only child, had lost his mother in Gaza in March 2024, when Israeli forces stormed al-Shifa Hospital. He searched for his mother for two weeks, eventually finding her decomposing body on the stairs of the facility.Witnesses said she was shot and killed in cold blood.Despite the personal grief and excruciating circumstances, both al-Sharif and Qreiqeh continued to document Israel’s war in Gaza, which is increasingly being deemed a genocide by critics worldwide.Al-Sharif’s last tweet on X, posted minutes before he was killed, warned that Israel’s latest plan to invade Gaza risked muzzling Palestinian voices in the besieged enclave.“If this madness doesn’t end, Gaza will be reduced to ruins, its people’s voices silenced, their faces …
