The 65-year-old father of Al Jazeera journalist Anas al-Sharif is killed in an Israeli air strike on the household residence.
The daddy of Al Jazeera journalist Anas al-Sharif has been killed in an Israeli air strike in northern Gaza.
Al-Sharif instructed Al Jazeera that his 65-year-old father was killed on Monday after his residence in Jabalia refugee camp was struck.
“My beloved father has become a martyr. To God we belong and to Him we shall return,” al-Sharif wrote on X, previously referred to as Twitter.
Al-Sharif is the fourth Al Jazeera journalist to lose members of the family since Israel launched an assault on Gaza on October 7 in response to a Hamas assault on southern Israel.
Al-Sharif stated the remainder of his household had evacuated to an UNRWA college however that his father was not capable of flee for well being causes.
Al-Sharif stated that he would proceed to work and canopy the Israeli assault on Gaza.
“We buried my father’s body in the schools people are sheltering in here because we are unable to move or leave this area right now. I will continue to cover events that are unfolding.”
“But despite all of this, and despite the targeting of my home and the killing of my father, I will continue to cover from Jabalia refugee camp and from northern Gaza,” he added.
A number of Al Jazeera journalists in Gaza have misplaced members of the family in Israeli strikes over the previous two months.
On October 25, Wael Dahdouh, an Al Jazeera Arabic correspondent in Gaza, misplaced his spouse, son, daughter and grandson in an Israeli air strike on the Nuseirat refugee camp.
Mohamed Abu al-Qumsan, a broadcast engineer with Al Jazeera’s bureau in Gaza, misplaced 19 members of the family, together with his father and two sisters, in Israeli air raids on the Jabalia refugee camp on October 31.
Moamen Al Sharafi, a correspondent for Al Jazeera Arabic, misplaced 22 members of his household in an Israeli air strike on the Jabalia refugee camp on December 6.
The household of Al Jazeera correspondent Youmna ElSayed obtained a threatening cellphone name in October from an individual claiming to be from the Israeli military, warning them to instantly depart their residence as Israel steps up its bombardment of the besieged enclave.
Reporting from Ramallah within the occupied West Financial institution, Al Jazeera’s Zein Basravi stated that for journalists masking the struggle from Gaza, “it has been very personal. It has been very difficult. It has been reporting done under the most difficult of circumstances”.
“And we have to understand those people living in Gaza, the reporters – ours and everybody else’s – they are from there. They live there,” he stated.
Greater than 18,200 folks have been killed within the Israeli assault on Gaza, in response to Palestinian officers.
Round 1,200 folks have been killed within the Hamas assault on Israel, in response to Israeli authorities.
