The 65-year-old father of Al Jazeera journalist Anas al-Sharif is killed in an Israeli air strike on the household house.
The daddy of Al Jazeera journalist Anas al-Sharif has been killed in an Israeli air strike in northern Gaza.
Al-Sharif advised Al Jazeera that his 65-year-old father was killed on Monday after his house in Jabalia refugee camp was struck.
“My beloved father has change into a martyr. To God we belong and to Him we will 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 mentioned the remainder of his household had evacuated to an UNRWA college however that his father was not in a position to flee for well being causes.
Al-Sharif mentioned that he would proceed to work and canopy the Israeli assault on Gaza.
“We buried my father’s physique within the colleges individuals are sheltering in right here as a result of we’re unable to maneuver or depart this space proper now. I’ll proceed to cowl occasions which might be unfolding.”
“However regardless of all of this, and regardless of the focusing on of my house and the killing of my father, I’ll proceed to cowl 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 acquired a threatening cellphone name in October from an individual claiming to be from the Israeli military, warning them to instantly depart their house as Israel steps up its bombardment of the besieged enclave.
Reporting from Ramallah within the occupied West Financial institution, Al Jazeera’s Zein Basravi mentioned that for journalists protecting the conflict from Gaza, “it has been very private. It has been very troublesome. It has been reporting performed underneath essentially the most troublesome of circumstances”.
“And we’ve got to know these individuals residing in Gaza, the reporters – ours and everyone else’s – they’re from there. They dwell there,” he mentioned.
Greater than 18,200 individuals have been killed within the Israeli assault on Gaza, in accordance with Palestinian officers.
Round 1,200 individuals have been killed within the Hamas assault on Israel, in accordance with Israeli authorities.