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August 13, 2025 – Palestine –
On 13 August 2025, the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) reported that Anas al‑Sharif, a 28‑year‑old Al Jazeera correspondent in Gaza and member of the Palestinian Journalists’ Syndicate (PJS), submitted a formal complaint to the PJS three days before his assassination in an Israeli strike. In his heartfelt letter, al‑Sharif highlighted the relentless threats he and his family endured since the war’s onset on 7 October 2023.
Al‑Sharif described how these threats began early in the conflict, including a targeted strike on his home, which resulted in the death of his father. He detailed the “dozens of threats” he received—from direct communications by Israeli military officers to aggressive incitement campaigns orchestrated by the army spokesman, aimed at stopping his coverage and “silencing his images”
Moreover, he shared the traumatic experience of witnessing a colleague, Fadi Al‑Wahidi, suffer severe injury and paralysis during field reporting—an event that underscored the daily dangers faced by journalists in Gaza. The escalation peaked in July 2025, when the Israeli military spokesperson publicly released threatening videos that sought to disrupt his media message and dampen the Palestinian narrative he conveyed from within the besieged enclave.
Al‑Sharif also lamented that these threats extended beyond him, directly impacting his wife and children, as part of a psychological campaign aimed at coercing him away from fulfilling his journalistic and national responsibilities.
Several days later, on 10 August 2025, al‑Sharif was killed in a targeted Israeli airstrike on a media tent near Al‑Shifa Hospital in Gaza City. The strike also claimed the lives of five other media workers, including his Al Jazeera colleagues Mohammed Qreiqeh, Ibrahim Zaher, Moamen Aliwa, and Mohammed Noufal.
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