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Israel assassinates prominent Al Jazeera journalists in Gaza
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<div class="field field-field-text"><p><a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/countries/israel" target="_blank">Israeli</a> forces assassinated two of Gaza’s leading journalists and their entire crew on Sunday night, signalling the likely start of a major assault on Gaza City.</p>
<p data-end="388" data-start="144">The director of Gaza’s Al Shifa Medical Complex confirmed that Al Jazeera correspondents Anas al-Sharif and Mohammed Qreiqea died when Israeli forces struck their tent, in what he said appears to have been a deliberate attack on media workers.</p>
<p data-end="388" data-start="144">Cameramen and photojournalists Ibrahim Zaher, Mohammed Noufal and Mosaab Al Sharif were also killed.</p>
<p data-end="642" data-start="390">Al Sharif, 28, was based outside the hospital’s main gate, reporting extensively from northern Gaza.</p>
<p data-end="434" data-start="163">Shortly before his death, Al Sharif <a href="https://x.com/AnasAlSharif0/status/1954640127780872468" target="_blank">posted</a> on X about Israel’s concentrated missile strikes on the eastern and southern parts of Gaza City. His final video captured the deafening booms of the attacks near to where he was.</p>
<p data-end="601" data-start="372">Jodie Ginsberg, chief executive of the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), told Al Jazeera on Sunday that Al Sharif’s killing fits a longstanding Israeli pattern of targeting journalists. “This is not just about Anas Al Sharif; it is part of a decades-long practice in which Israel kills journalists,” she said.</p>
<p data-end="663" data-start="436">The killing of the five media workers comes days after Israel’s security cabinet <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israeli-cabinet-approves-plan-occupy-gaza" target="_blank">approved a plan to occupy</a> the Gaza Strip. The operation aims to seize Gaza City and forcibly clear its nearly one million Palestinian residents.</p>
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