Al Jazeera claims that Israel has killed its entire staff in Gaza City, now that it plans to conquer it.

BarcelonaAl Jazeera has reported that Israel killed the remaining journalists from the television station in a bombing raid on Gaza City on Sunday, just as it is preparing a new offensive to capture it.

The dead are journalists Anas al-Sharif and Mohammed Qreiqeh, camera crew members Ibrahim Zaher and Mohammed Noufal, and the crew's driver, Moamen Aliwa. Five people in total. Israeli forces acknowledged the attack on social media site X, but asserted that one of the journalists, Anas al-Sharif, was "the head of a Hamas terrorist cell" that had carried out attacks against Israeli civilians.

The United Nations denounced on July 25 that Israel tried to "silence" the Al Jazeera reporter to stop reporting on "the genocide in Gaza." "I am deeply alarmed by the repeated threats and accusations by the Israeli military against Anas Al-Sharif, the last surviving Al-Jazeera journalist in northern Gaza," said Irene Khan, the UN special rapporteur on freedom of expression. She added: "Fears for Al-Sharif's safety are well-founded, as there is growing evidence that journalists in Gaza have been targeted and killed by the Israeli military based on unsubstantiated claims that they were Hamas terrorists." She also denounced that Israel had repeatedly accused Al-Sharif and other Palestinian journalists of being terrorists or Hamas supporters, "without any evidence to substantiate their claims."

Since the start of the offensive in October 2023, Israel has killed 237 Palestinian journalists working in Gaza, according to the Gaza Strip's Hamas-controlled government, a figure confirmed by Reporters Without Borders and other press freedom organizations. Israel also prevents the international press from accessing the enclave. Al Jazeera is the main foreign media outlet reporting from the Strip, and one of the most important in the Arab world. Israel has banned its broadcasts in its territory.

The Al Jazeera journalists who were killed were staying in a tent near Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City. In fact, the hospital director told the Arab television channel that it appears Israel targeted the tent directly. Shortly before his death, Al Sharif posted a video on X in which the Israeli bombardment could be heard and made the following comment in Arabic: "They have been bombarding non-stop for two hours. The Israeli aggression in Gaza City has intensified."

Separately, Al Sharif has also shared another text on social media about the expansion of the Israeli offensive in the capital: "If this madness does not end, Gaza will be reduced to rubble, the voices of its people silenced, their faces erased. And history will remember them as silent witnesses to a genocide."

Images filmed moments after the attack show Al Sharif with his face and part of his body destroyed, as well as Qreiqeh's corpse. Shortly afterwards, another video shows dozens of men carrying one of the shrouded corpses on a stretcher while shouting "Allah is great." In recent months, Al Sharif has reported on the atrocities of the Israeli army in the Strip, as well as the hunger and malnutrition suffered by the population.

The United Nations Security Council held an extraordinary meeting on Sunday at the request of the United Kingdom, France, Denmark, Greece, and Slovenia to "condemn the Israeli government's decision to expand military operations in Gaza." According to these countries, "the plan would violate international humanitarian law."

However, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu appeared before the international press on Sunday and shamelessly announced, that the military operation to conquer Gaza City will begin "very soon"During the press conference, journalists questioned him about not allowing the international press into Gaza, and Netanyahu replied: "Two days ago, I issued directives to allow access." However, he also insisted on the importance of ensuring the safety of reporters. Foreign ones, of course.