Israeli forces killed five Al Jazeera staff, including Al Jazeera correspondents Anas Al Sharif and Mohammed Kareka, as well as photographers Ibrahim Zahehar and Mohammed Nofal on a targeted strike at a media tent at Al Sifa Hospital in Gaza city on Sunday evening. Two other people were also killed.
Just before his death, Al Sharif, the famous 28-year-old Al Jazeera Arabic correspondent, who reportedly wrote to X in the eastern and southern Gaza city of Israel, also known as the “fire belt,” wrote him in X in the eastern and southern Gaza city.
In his final video, the huge boom in Israel’s intensive missile bombing can be heard in the background as the dark sky is lit up in a flash of orange light.
In his final message, written on April 6, to be published in the case of his martianism, Al-Sharif said, “I struggled with all the details” and “I had repeated grief and loss.”
“Nevertheless, I have not hesitated to convey the truth without distortion or misrepresentation.
“Even the broken bodies of our children and women did not move our hearts or stop the massacres that our people have been subjugated for over a year and a half.”
Hamas described the actions of the Israeli military as a savage crime that transcends all boundaries of fascism and crime.
He emphasized that the murdered journalist documented Israeli hunger crimes and portrayed the hunger imposed on the people of Gaza.
Hamas warned that the assassination of journalists was intended to silence the media and pave the way for major crimes Israel is planning to commit to in Gaza City.
The movement called on the international community, the UN Security Council and journalists around the world to condemn the administration’s actions and take immediate steps to stop them.
Palestinian Islamic jihad also condemned the murder of journalists, naming it the “heinous war crimes” committed by “the world’s most brutal and criminal army.”
The group argued that both Arab and Western governments were responsible for not halting Israeli atrocities, and that the escalation reflected a ceasefire and rejection of occupation for any effort to achieve prisoner exchange contracts.
The popular front for the liberation of Palestine confirmed that the attack was “the truth is the direct enemy of occupation,” and called it a full-scale war crime.
The PFLP viewed the assassination as a “dangerous indicator” of the intent of occupation to commit further crimes in Gaza, while eliminating media coverage.
It criticized the hypocrisy of the profession, claiming that only the “microphone and camera” tool runs local journalists while allowing foreign coverage to Gaza.
The front declared that international silence on such crimes amounted to a “criminal partnership,” urging international press unions and human rights groups to seek accountability in the international courts.
The Palestine (PRC) Popular Resistance Committee lamented journalists, celebrating Anas al-Sharif as the “Palestinian icon,” and its work exposed the “Zionist Holocaust.”
The committee argues that assassination is inconsistent with Netanyahu’s propaganda, indicating that “the Zionist entities fear words, images, cameras and pens.”
Pledging to continue the Martyr path, the PRC confirmed that their struggle would continue until the “entities of murder, fascism and Zionist crime” were eradicated.
Fatah Al-Intifada expressed his grief for the “true martyr” and said targeting journalists constitutes “a blatant violation of human rights and freedom of the press.”
He argued that the main purpose of such attacks was to “blind the world to crime” and to eliminate witnesses who recorded “the genocide of the Palestinians in Gaza.” They called for international protection to ensure safety while performing their duties.
The Palestinian Mujahideen movement strongly condemned the brutal assassination of several journalists by Zionist enemies near the Alsifa Medical Facility.
Meanwhile, the Palestine Journalist Conservation Centre (PJPC) has condemned the heinous crime, pointing out that the assassination of an Al Jazeera correspondent followed months of Israeli incitement.
The Centre called for an “independent and transparent international investigation” for the continued targeting of Gaza journalists to ensure an end to accountability and the “immunity policy.”
It also called for the international community to provide “immediate and effective protection for Palestinian journalists.”
MNA/presstv