By banning the press from accessing the Palestinian territory and waging the deadliest war against journalists in the history of armed conflicts, Israel is destroying press freedom, with little reaction from the United States or the European Union.
Global condemnation is mounting over the assassination of one of the most prominent journalists in Gaza, Al Jazeera correspondent Anas al-Sharif, along with four of his colleagues at the network and a sixth journalist — the freelance reporter Mohammed al-Khalidi. The killing of al-Sharif and his colleagues is “really murder,” says Irene Khan, U.N. special rapporteur on freedom of opinion and expression. “It is not killing in the context of war. It is a deliberate strategy to stop independent voices reporting.” U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres is calling for an independent investigation of the journalists who were killed in the targeted Israeli strike.
An entire news crew working for Al Jazeera was killed by Israel as they sought to bring the world firsthand reporting from #Gaza.
Among them was prominent journalist #AnasAlSharif, who had been previously smeared and threatened by the IDF.
#JournalistIsNotATarget
https://cpj.org/2025/08/israel-kills-al-jazeera-journalists-in-targeted-gaza-city-airstrike/
New York, August 10, 2025—The Committee to Protect Journalists is appalled to learn of the killing today of Al Jazeera journalist Anas Al-Sharif, Mohammed Qreiqeh, camera operators Ibrahim Zaher and Mohammed Noufal, and an unnamed assistant by Israeli forces in Gaza. The journalists were killed in an attack on a tent used by media near Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City...