Overview

• A clearly marked press tent outside al-Shifa Hospital was struck late on August 10, killing Al Jazeera correspondent Anas al-Sharif, four Al Jazeera colleagues and a freelance journalist
• The Israel Defense Forces said it deliberately targeted al-Sharif as the leader of a Hamas cell but has not offered any publicly verifiable evidence
• Al Jazeera, the Committee to Protect Journalists and other rights groups condemned the attack as a deliberate assault on press freedom
• Press-freedom monitors report that nearly 200 Palestinian journalists have died in Gaza since October 2023 under severe restrictions on foreign media access
• Rights groups and UN experts are calling for an independent probe into the strike as concerns grow over press safety and humanitarian reporting