Global outrage mounts against Israel as funeral held for Al Jazeera journalists killed in Gaza

According to Wadi Abu al-Saud, a local Palestinian journalist, the attack took place around 11:22pm (local time) on Sunday, soon after he had finished his evening bulletin.

Saud, who was near the tent at the time of the Israeli strike on Sunday, said “I entered the tent opposite theirs, raised my phone to make a call, and then the explosion occurred. A piece of shrapnel hit my phone. I looked back and saw people burning in flames. I tried to extinguish them. Anas and the others had died instantly from the strike,” The Guardian reported.

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) has acknowledged carrying out the targeted strikes against Al Jazeera journalists, wherein it claimed that Sharif was the leader of a Hamas cell responsible for rocket attacks against Israel, an allegation which Al Jazeera had previously refuted and said as baseless.

Two weeks prior to IDF’s strikes, Al Jazeera had condemned Israel military’s “campaign of incitement” against its reporters in Gaza, including the deceased Anas al-Sharif.

As per Islam al-Za’anoun, a journalist with Palestine TV and other Arab channels who took part in Al Jazeera’s journalists’ funeral in Gaza City, Sunday’s attack by Israel was “a turning point in the world of journalism”.

(with inputs from The Guardian)

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