JERUSALEM (AP)-The Israeli army targeted and killed Al-Jazeera correspondent and others with an air strike late Sunday in Gaza, after the press advocates said an Israeli “distortion campaign” that climbed when Sharif people shouted on the air on hunger in the land.
Both Israel and hospital officials in Gaza City confirmed the death of the Sharif and its colleagues, which the committee described to protect journalists and others as holding against those who document the war in Gaza. The Israeli army confirmed that the Sharif had led the Hamas cell-a claim that the island that was rejected by the island and the Sharif as a basis.
The army previously said it targeted the individuals who described it as fighters in Hamas who thought as correspondents. This observers described this as a bloody struggle for journalists in the modern era.
Shiva Hospital officials said that those who were killed while inserting them outside the largest complex in Gaza City hospitals, also included the correspondence of Al -Jazeera Muhammad Qarqa, in addition to four other journalists and two other people. Five of the six dead journalists are Al -Jazeera employees. The strike hurt the entrance to the complex’s emergency building.
The air strike occurred hours after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu defended a planned military attack in some of the most populated Gaza areas, including Gaza City, and said that he ordered the army to “bring more foreign journalists” to Gaza.
The strike came less than a year after the Israeli army officials accused the sheriff and other Al -Jazeera journalists of being members of armed groups Hamas and Islamic Jihad. In a video on July 24, Israeli army spokesman Avichay Adri Al -Jazeera attacked Al -Jazeera and accused the Sharif of being part of the Hamas military wing. Al -Sharif and the owner of his work denied these allegations that they are baseless.
Al -Jazeera calls strike “assassination”
The condemnation of the United Nations Office for Human Rights, the Foreign Association of the Press, the Journalists Protection Committee, and the International Press and International Pardon Institute, have poured out among other things.
Al -Jazeera described the strike “targeted assassination” and accused Israeli officials of incitement, and linked the death of Sharif to the allegations that the network and the reporter denied.
“People and his colleagues were among the last remaining voices from inside Gaza, as it provided the world with unprecedented coverage on the ground for the devastating facts that its people carry,” the Qatari network said in a statement.
Regardless of rare calls to monitor Israeli military operations, the international media was prevented from entering Gaza throughout the war. The island is among the few ports that still offer a large team of correspondents inside the besieged tape, dating daily life in air strikes, hunger, and destroyed neighborhoods.
The island was banned in Israel and the soldiers raided its offices in the occupied West Bank last year. Israel ordered at that time to close its local offices, while preventing the broadcast of its reports and prohibiting its websites.
The network has suffered heavy losses during the war, including the Ismail Ismaili reporter, and the Rami Rafi photographer, who was killed last summer, and the independent was killed by young women, in an Israeli air strike in March.
Like Sharif, young women were among the six that Israel accused of being members of armed groups last October.
“Only a journalist, who represents a fighter in Hamas or at the time of the attack, can aim to participate directly in hostilities on the purpose of intentionally. Alerting the world to the hunger of civilians, and reporting about Israel’s military behavior in Gaza in Gaza, so that removing publication from Oxford University. She added that the evidence is escalating that Israel considers anyone who believes to be a member of Hamas is a legitimate goal.
“I do not consider this a reasonable explanation for international humanitarian law,” Del said.
On Monday, the Committee of Protection of Journalists said that at least 192 journalists have been killed since the start of the Israel war in Gaza. On Sunday strike brings the total number of Al -Jazeera newspapers who were killed during the war to 11, not 8 independents, according to CPJ data.
Irene Khan, the United Nations Special Rapporteur of Freedom of Expression, said on July 31 that the killings “were part of a deliberate strategy for Israel to suppress the truth, obstruct international crimes documenting and burying any possibility of future accountability.”
He invites the funeral pioneers to protect journalists
In a publication on social media, Al -Jazeera said that he was written to be published in the event of his death, and the sheriff led to the destruction and destruction that were their war, goodbye to his wife, son and daughter.
“I never hesitated in one day to convey the truth as it is, without distortion or forgery,” wrote the 28 -year -old.
Hundreds of people, including many journalists, met Monday for the mourning on Sharif, QRIIQEH and their colleagues. The bodies lie in white sheets in the Shiva Hospital complex.
“The correspondents were deliberately targeting and urging the international community to behave.
Al -Sharif started reporting the island a few days after the outbreak of the war. He was known for reports of Israel’s bombing in northern Gaza, and then on the hunger that holds many of the region’s population.
In a broadcast in July, Al -Sharif cried on the air when a woman behind him collapsed from hunger.
He said at that time: “I am talking about the slow death of these people.”
QRIIQEH, a 33 -year -old Gaza City, survived by two children.
Both journalists were separated from their families for several months before the war. When they managed to reunite them during the ceasefire earlier this year, their children seemed unable to get to know them, according to the video clips they published at that time.
Amnesty International said in a statement on Monday.
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Maggie mentioned from Cairo. AP MOLLY QUELL writer from Amsterdam contributed.
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This story was corrected to change the name of the second journalist to QRIIQEH.