World reactions to Israeli killing of five journalists in Gaza
Global reactions pour in to a deadly Israeli attack on Gaza that killed five al-Jazeera journalists as the regime presses ahead with its genocidal war on the besieged strip.
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Al Jazeera has condemned the regime’s assassination of its staff, calling it a “desperate attempt to silence the voices exposing the impending seizure and occupation of Gaza”.
Israel’s military claimed responsibility for the targeted attack, which killed correspondents Anas al-Sharif and Mohammed Qreiqeh, cameramen Ibrahim Zaher and Moamen Aliwa, and their assistant Mohammed Noufal.
The Hamas Movement has denounced the Israeli occupation army’s assassination of the Al Jazeera journalists calling that a “brutal crime that exceeded all levels of fascism and criminality.”
Hamas said,” A new galaxy of journalists has joined 232 of their colleagues who were cold-bloodedly killed by the Nazi occupation army … following a criminal attack by an Israeli suicide drone on their tent in the main courtyard of Al-Shifa Hospital in the west of Gaza City.”
Hamas called Israel’s systematic killing of journalists in Gaza as “the largest and most egregious campaign of targeting media professionals ever recorded in any conflict.”
The Palestinian Islamic Jihad also denounced the killing of journalists, labeling it a "heinous war crime" perpetrated by "the most brutal and criminal army in the world."
The group held both Arab and Western governments accountable for their failure to stop Israel's atrocities and asserted that this escalation reflects the occupation's rejection of all efforts to achieve a ceasefire and a prisoner exchange deal.
The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine stated that the attack confirms that "truth is a direct enemy of the occupation," calling it a full-fledged war crime.
The Popular Resistance Committees in Palestine (PRC) mourned the journalists, honoring Anas Al-Sharif as an "icon of Palestine" whose work exposed the "Zionist holocaust."
Pledging to continue on the path of the martyrs, the PRC affirmed that their struggle will persist until the "entity of murder, fascism, and Zionist crime" is eradicated.
Fatah al-Intifada expressed sorrow for the "martyrs of truth," stating that targeting journalists constitutes a "blatant violation of human rights and freedom of the press."
The movement claimed the primary objective of such attacks is to "blind the world to the crimes" and eliminate witnesses documenting the "genocide of the Palestinian people in Gaza." It called for international protection for media workers to ensure their safety while performing their duties.
The Palestinian Mujahideen Movement strongly condemned the brutal assassination of several journalists by the Zionist enemy near Al-Shifa Medical Complex.
Meanwhile, the Palestinian Journalists Protection Center (PJPC) condemned the heinous crime, noting that the assassination of Al Jazeera's correspondents followed months of Israeli incitement against them.
The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) blasted the Israeli regime for killing the Al Jazeera journalists and called on US and international media workers to “stand in solidarity” with their Palestinian colleagues.
“Israel’s ongoing campaign of targeted assassinations of Palestinian journalists is a war crime, plain and simple,” CAIR National Executive Director Nihad Awad said in a statement.
He added,” The murder of these Al Jazeera journalists is not an accident or collateral damage – it is part of a consistent, documented policy of silencing media voices and hiding the truth of the genocide being carried out by Israel in Gaza.”
Shortly before being killed, al-Sharif, a well-known 28-year-old Al Jazeera Arabic correspondent who had reportedly extensively covered from northern Gaza, wrote on X that Israel had launched intense, concentrated bombardment – also known as “fire belts” – on the eastern and southern parts of Gaza City.
In his last video, the loud booms of Israel’s intensive missile bombing can be heard in the background as the dark sky is lit in a flash of orange light.
In a final message, written on April 6, to be published in the event of his martyrdom, al-Sharif said he “lived the pain in all its details” and “tasted grief and loss repeatedly”.
“Despite that, I never hesitated to convey the truth as it is, without distortion or misrepresentation, hoping that God would witness those who remained silent, those who accepted our killing, and those who suffocated our very breaths,” he said.
