Roughly 48 hours since the IDF strike that killed prominent Al Jazeera reporter Anas al-Sharif, the IDF remains mum on why it chose to target him when he was with five other journalists who were also killed in the blast on a tent near Gaza City’s Shifa Hospital.
Since the strike, the IDF has doubled down on its assertion that Sharif was an active Hamas operative, pointing to documents it released last year that listed Sharif as the head of a rocket-launching squad in 2019 and a member of the elite Nukhba Force company in Hamas’s East Jabalia Battalion.
However, it has not released any information on the five other journalists killed with Sharif.
As of midnight Tuesday-Wednesday, the IDF had yet to respond to a query on the matter submitted 24 hours earlier.
Al Jazeera said the Sunday strike killed its correspondents Sharif and Mohammed Qraiqea, along with cameramen Ibrahim Zaher, Moamen Aliwa and Mohammed Noufal. Freelancer Mohammad al-Khaldi was also with the group and lost his life in the strike.
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