Mourners sit around the grave of Al Jazeera correspondent Anas al-Sharif, who was killed alongside other journalists in an overnight Israeli strike on their tent in Gaza City, following his burial at the Sheikh Radwan cemetery in Gaza City on August 11, 2025. AFP
The office of UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk said on X that the Israeli military had targeted a tent housing five staff from Qatari broadcaster Al Jazeera.
A freelance journalist was also killed in Sunday's strike, which Israel has acknowledged was a planned operation.
"Israel must respect and protect all civilians, including journalists," Turk's office added, noting that at least 242 Palestinian journalists have been killed in Gaza since the start of Israeli war on Gaza in October 2023.
"We call for immediate, safe and unhindered access to Gaza for all journalists," it said.
The Israeli military confirmed it had targeted prominent reporter Anas al-Sharif, whom it has repeatedly labelled a "terrorist" affiliated with Hamas, saying he "posed as a journalist".
Reporters Without Borders, a media freedom group, said it "strongly and angrily condemns the acknowledged murder by the Israeli army" of al-Sharif and the other journalists.
Meawhile , Qatar's Prime Minister lambasted Israel on Monday for killing journalists working for its Al Jazeera network in the besieged Gaza Strip, describing the deaths as "crimes beyond imagination".
"The deliberate targeting of journalists by Israel in the Gaza Strip reveals how these crimes are beyond imagination... May God have mercy on journalists Anas Al-Sharif, Mohammed Qraiqea, and their colleagues," Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al-Thani said in a post on X.
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