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 instructed 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 grow to be a martyr. To God we belong and to Him we will return,” al-Sharif wrote on X, previously often known as Twitter.
Al-Sharif is the fourth Al Jazeera journalist to lose relations 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 faculty 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 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 concentrating 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 relations 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 relations, 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 telephone name in October from an individual claiming to be from the Israeli military, warning them to right away 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 stated that for journalists overlaying the battle from Gaza, “it has been very private. It has been very tough. It has been reporting finished underneath probably the most tough of circumstances”.
“And we’ve to know these folks dwelling in Gaza, the reporters – ours and everyone else’s – they’re from there. They stay there,” he stated.
Greater than 18,200 folks have been killed within the Israeli assault on Gaza, in line with Palestinian officers.
Round 1,200 folks had been killed within the Hamas assault on Israel, in line with Israeli authorities.