Known By The Terrorist Company They Adhere To

"A terrorist with a camera is still a terrorist!"

"I commend our security forces for eliminating the terrorist Anas Jamal Mahmoud Al-Sharif, who operated under the guise of an Al Jazeera journalist."

Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations Danny Danon 

 

"The terrorist Anas al-Sharif served as a cell leader in the Hamas terror organization and advanced plans for rocket fire against Israeli civilians and IDF forces."

"[In October, the IDF published documents seized in Gaza that] unequivocally [confirmed Sharif’s] military affiliation with Hamas."

"These documents serve as proof of the terrorist’s integration into the Qatari Al Jazeera media network."

"[In Sunday’s strike, the military] took steps to mitigate civilian harm, including] the use of precision munitions, aerial surveillance and additional intelligence information."

Israel Defense Forces  

Funerals held for assassinated Gaza journalists   Still from Al Jazeera video

 

 

United Nations employees with the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) who just happen to be members of the Hamas terrorist group, some of whom were proven to be involved in the October 7, 2023 invasion and slaughter in southern Israel, and journalists/photographers working under a Reuters byline or employed by Al Jazeera who are likewise linked to terrorist groups some of whom occupy positions that require direct acts of terrorism against Israel, writing biased columns and observations posing as neutral journalism published without hesitation by mainstream Western media.

 

One of these journalist-terrorists met his end on August 10, along with four other colleagues, in Gaza City leading world powers to condemn Israel for targeting journalists because safety is supposed to be guaranteed for members of the press in war zones, reporting the scenes of conflict that they observe -- for if combatants fail to recognize the vital importance of the objective reporters' accounts portray,  how would the world audience know what is  transpiring, whom to condemn, and which parties should be supported by world opinion?

 

The Israel Defense Forces has identified Anas al-Sharif as an actively serving member and head of a Hamas terrorist cell while doing double-duty as a journalist for the Qatari Al Jazeera network. That would be the Qatar that has given haven to top-echelon members of the Muslim Brotherhood's little offshoot, Hamas, in Doha. Al-Sharif was responsible, according to the IDF, for orchestrating and advancing rocket attacks against Israeli civilians and IDF troops.  

 

In Doha, Qatar, Al Jazeera staff members gather at the network's studio to remember their colleagues. Al Jazeera called the strike a 'targeted assassination' and accused Israeli officials of incitement by connecting al-Sharif's death to the allegations that both the network and correspondent had denied. (Ibraheem Abu Mustafa/Reuters)

 

Intelligence was released by the IDF which had recovered documents in Gaza indicating al-Sharif's military role within Hamas. These documents include personnel rosters, records of terrorist training courses phone directories and salary documents substantiating the man's involvement as a combatant and a commander within the Hamas network of terrorism aimed at destroying Israel. As evidence goes, it is complete and completely damning. And like the United Nations, Al Jazeera strenuously denies that any of its employees are linked to terrorism.

 

So the fiction that the documents detail of al-Sharif's fighter status and cell-leading positions dating to 2013, including leadership in rocket units and participation in elite Nukhba battalions must obviously be confusing this journalist's background activities with someone else entirely. Only that is the version preferred for public consumption by Al Jazeera, against Israel's and specifically the IDF's allegations.

The predatory, anti-Israel, pro-Palestinian 'victimhood injustice' of Qatar and Al Jazeera carry weight in excess of what a democratic, lawful nation-state of the Western alliance is held to represent in today's world. 

 

Al Jazeera reporter Anas al-Sharif (center left), who was killed by the IDF in Gaza on August 10, 2025, shown together with the late Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar in an undated photographed posted by the IDF’s Arabic language spokesman on August 11, 2025.

 

This innocent journalist, this producer of unbiased news reports informing the world at large of Israel's assaults against Palestinians, a member of Hamas? Perish the thought. And while we're at it, brush aside the evidence consisting of documentation damning to his purported innocence, much less photographs attesting to his role as a valued comrade in terrorist activities. 

 

Head of the Arab Media Branch in the IDF, Col. Avicha Adraeee, posted photographs Sunday showing al-Sharif taking selfies with Hamas terror leaders, including Yahya Sinwar and Khalil al-Hayya. "Only a terrorist sits in the gatherings of terrorists", wrote Adraee. While the Israeli military state that al-Sharif led a Hamas cell, the Committee to Protect Journalists and other describe al-Sharif's death and those of the other four with him as retribution against journalists documenting the Gaza conflict.

 

Of the five journalists killed in the Sunday Israeli airstrike, all were Al Jazeera staffers of whom the IDF say they target individuals they identify as Hamas terrorists posing as reporters. A year earlier, Israeli army officials had accused al-Sharif and other Al Jazeera journalists of being members of Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad. Col. Adraee had attacked Al Jazeera in a July 24 video, accusing al-Sharif as part of the Hamas terrorist group.

 

The strike that killed him and the other four Al Jazeera journalists represented a "targeted assassination" stated Al Jazeera, accusing Israel of 'incitement'. 

 

Al Jazeera reporter Anas al-Sharif (in red), who was killed by the IDF in Gaza on August 10, 2025, shown together with the late Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar and other Hamas leaders in undated photographs posted by the IDF’s Arabic language spokesman on August 11, 2025.