Journalists Moonlighting With Hamas Doesn't Fool Israel

 Nadene Goldfoot                                                 

     Al Jazeera's Anas al-Sharif, left, and Mohammed Qreiqeh 

The report is that Israel hit a tent outside a hospital with 5 Al Jazeera reporters.  Israel had found they were in reality, Hamas terrorists as well.  They were all killed.  

             Anas Jamal Mahmooud-al-Sharif b: December 3, 1996 in Jabalia refugee camp, Gaza Strip, d: 10 August 2025 age 28, Gaza City, Gaza Strip.                 

No one is saying he wasn't a real journalist but that he was also using his skills and fact of being on the spot to also side with Hamas and work with them as well.  

"Five Al Jazeera journalists were killed by an Israeli strike in Gaza City on Sunday - among them 28-year-old correspondent Anas al-Sharif, who had reported prominently on the war since its outset.  The other four Al Jazeera journalists killed were correspondent Mohammed Qreiqeh, cameramen Ibrahim Zaher and Moamen Aliwa, and crew driver and cameraman Mohammed Noufal, Al Jazeera said.  Two others were also killed, the broadcaster said. Hospital officials named Mohammed al-Khaldi, a local freelance journalist, as one of them".

Reports on August 11, 2025, confirmed that an Israeli airstrike in Gaza City killed four Al Jazeera journalists: Anas al-Sharif, Mohammed Qreiqeh, Ibrahim Zaher, and Mohammed Noufal. The Israeli military confirmed it targeted al-Sharif, claiming he was a Hamas operative posing as a journalist. Al Jazeera and press freedom groups denied these allegations and condemned the attack as a targeted assassination and a violation of press freedom.                                

Jonathan Conricus, a spokesperson for the Israeli military, previously accused Al Jazeera journalists of collaborating with Hamas and publishing propaganda. In July, he posted a video accusing al-Sharif of being a member of Hamas' military wing. The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) stated that Israel's pattern of labeling journalists as militants without providing credible evidence raises serious questions about its intent and respect for press freedom. 

The Guardian published excerpts from the purported will of Anas Al-Sharif, whom Israel says was a Hamas commander posing as an Al Jazeera journalist, killed in an Israeli airstrike near Gaza’s Al-Shifa Hospital. The will urged, “Do not forget Gaza” and expressed a wish to “be among the martyrs.”                             

                           Shlomi Ziv, hostage Ziv, 42, was one of four hostages rescued on June 8, 2024, in a daring mission carried out by Israel’s Shin Bet, IDF and Border Police’s elite Yamam counterterrorism unit. He was taken hostage by Hamas terrorists on October 7, while working as part of the security team at the Nova music festival near Kibbutz Re’im. The audience listened in silence as Ziv described his 246 days in captivity, held alongside fellow hostages Almog Meir Jan and Andrey Kozlov.

          Proof of journalists acting with Hamas

Former Israeli hostage Shlomi Ziv, rescued in June’s Operation Arnon, responded to criticism of the strike, writing, “I was held by a journalist in captivity and his father was a doctor!!!!!” Operation Arnon was the Israeli military's name for a successful hostage rescue mission conducted in the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza on June 8, 2024. 

    Arnon Zmora, Isael's counter terrorism unit;   The story of a national hero who paid the ultimate sacrifice in ensuring the return of four hostages. Chief Inspector Zmora was part of Yamam, an elite unit in Israel’s Police. He was critically wounded by Hamas fire when commanding the team that rescued three of the four hostages, and later succumbed to his wounds in Israel. On October 7th he led the defense of Yad Mordechai, preventing Hamas terrorists from infiltrating the Kibbutz. After the battle, going on to fight terrorists at Nahal Oz military base and Kibbutz Be’eri. Arnon Zmora leaves behind a wife and two children.

The operation, initially named "Seeds of Summer," was renamed in honor of Chief Inspector Arnon Zmora, an officer in the elite Yamam counter-terrorism unit who was killed during the mission. The operation's objective was to recover hostages taken during the 7 October Hamas-led attack on Israel. The Israeli military acknowledged fewer than 100 Palestinian deaths.

Al-Sharif was killed along with four other journalists and two civilians in an Israeli airstrike targeting him and other journalists in a tent outside the Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City on 10 August 2025. At the time of his death, 234 journalists had been killed during the Gaza war. Prior to his killing, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) accused Al-Sharif of being a Hamas operative. 

Israel was also disappointed to learn that the people who were to help refugees of UNESCO were also people working for Hamas, turning the refugees against against Israel as their work. The Palestine Authority (PA) never had a chance to have any power over Hamas.   

The killing reignited debate over ties between Hamas and Gaza-based journalists.

Did their journalism mention that the attack was on all these places and what it caused and brought upon the heads of all involved?

The attacks launched from the Gaza Strip on October 7, 2023, primarily targeted Israeli communities in the Gaza Envelope region of southern Israel, and included rocket fire extending to other areas. 

Here are some of the communities and locations that were attacked:

• Kibbutzim and Moshavim:
  • Be'eri
  • Kfar Aza
  • Nahal Oz
  • Nir Oz
  • Re'im
  • Nirim
  • Kissufim
  • Holit
  • Alumim
  • Ein HaShlosha
  • Netiv HaAsara
  • Kibbutz Erez
  • Kibbutz Zikim
• Towns and Cities:
  • Sderot
  • Ofakim
  • Ashkelon
  • Ashdod
  • Beersheba
  • Gedera
  • Herzliya
  • Tel Aviv
  • Jerusalem
  • Yavne
  • Givatayim
  • Bat Yam
  • Beit Dagan
  • Rishon LeZion
• Other Locations:
  • Nova Music Festival (near Re'im)  first hit
  • Erez Crossing
  • Nahal Oz Lookout Base 

It's important to note that these attacks included both rocket fire and ground incursions by militants, according to Wikipedia.

Resource:

CBN News-Christian station on TV, through You Tube with complete list of past history of  Hamas al jazeera journalist 

israel AM

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuseirat_rescue_and_massacre#:~:text=On%208%20June%202024%2C%20during,One%20Yamam%20officer%20killed

https://www.timesofisrael.com/after-a-year-of-silence-former-hostage-shlomi-ziv-publicly-shares-story-of-idf-rescue/

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