Al Jazeera staff gathered at the news network’s Doha headquarters on Monday for a televised memorial for five colleagues killed by Israel overnight in Gaza.<\/p>\n
Anas al-Sharif, a recognisable face on the channel, correspondent Mohammed Qreiqeh and camera operators Ibrahim Zaher, Mohammed Noufal and Moamen Aliwa were killed in the Israeli attack on Sunday.<\/p>\n
Scores congregated in an Al Jazeera Arabic studio and newsroom in the Qatari capital to condemn the killings, promising to continue their reporting on the 22-month war between Israel and Hamas in Gaza.<\/p>\n
Some held pictures of the journalists killed in a strike on their tent in Gaza City in the north of the Palestinian territory.<\/p>\n
Among those present in Doha were Al Jazeera’s Gaza bureau chief Wael al-Dahdouh, whose wife and children were killed in Israeli strikes, and camera operator Fadi Al Wahidi who was left paralysed by a gunshot wound to the neck while reporting in the territory.<\/p>\n
“Every time we lose a loved one and a colleague, we lose a part of this… family of journalists. This is something extremely difficult and painful,” Al-Dahdouh told AFP following the vigil.<\/p>\n
“We stand in solidarity… and we take whatever action we can, but blatant attacks against international law and against everything continue,” he added.<\/p>\n
The Israeli military confirmed that it had carried out the attack on Al-Sharif, alleging that he was a “terrorist” who “posed as a journalist”.<\/p>\n
Tamer Almisshal, a senior presenter at Al Jazeera overseeing coverage in Gaza, told AFP the Israeli assertions were “fabricated” and “baseless”, adding that it was not the first time the Qatar-based channel’s journalists in Gaza had been accused of being affiliated with militant groups after being killed.<\/p>\n
“Israel, by killing and targeting our correspondents and our team in Gaza, they want to kill the truth,” Almisshal added.<\/p>\n
In July, the Committee to Protect Journalists called for Al-Sharif’s protection and accused the Israeli military of carrying out online attacks on the reporter by claiming that he was a member of Hamas.<\/p>\n
With Gaza sealed off, many media groups around the world, including AFP, depend on photo, video and text coverage of the conflict provided by Palestinian reporters.<\/p>\n
Media watchdog Reporters Without Borders (RSF) said in early July that more than 200 journalists had been killed in Gaza since the war began, including several Al Jazeera journalists.<\/p>\n
Al-Dahdouh explained those journalists still in Gaza “face attacks, murder, fear, hunger, displacement, thirst… after a while, we couldn’t recognise many of our colleagues because they had simply lost half their body weight”.<\/p>\n
“Their love for this profession… keeps them connected and carrying out this duty,” he added.<\/p>\n
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