GAZA,(Palestine Foundation Information Center) The Hamas Movement has condemned the Israeli occupation army’s assassination of five Al Jazeera channel journalists, including Anas ash-Sharif and Mohamed Qreiqeh, as a “brutal crime that exceeded all levels of fascism and criminality.”
“A new galaxy of journalists has joined 232 of their colleagues who were cold-bloodedly killed by the Nazi occupation army … following a criminal attack by an Israeli suicide drone on their tent in the main courtyard of Al-Shifa Hospital in the west of Gaza City,” Hamas said in a statement on Monday.
Hamas called Israel’s systematic killing of journalists in Gaza as “the largest and most egregious campaign of targeting media professionals ever recorded in any conflict.”
Hamas mourned the martyred Al Jazeera journalists — Anas ash-Sharif, Mohamed Qreiqeh, Ibrahim Daher, Moamen Eliwa, and Mohamed Nofal.
The Movement hailed Anas ash-Sharif as a “free journalist who fearlessly documented the Israeli crime of starvation and showed to the world scenes of the famine spreading in the Gaza Strip.”
The Israeli occupation army admitted the deadly strike on the journalists’ tent, claiming it had intelligence and documents against Anas ash-Sharif and accusing him of being involved in rocket attacks against Israeli citizens and forces.
However, human rights groups said ash-Sharif had been targeted for his frontline reporting on the Gaza war and that Israel’s claim lacked evidence, accusing it of systematically targeting journalists during the war.
