Anas Al-Sharif
Anas Jamal Mahmoud al-Sharif (Anas Al-Sharif) (Arabic: أنس جمال محمود الشريف; 3 December 1996 – 10 August 2025) was a Palestinian journalist and videographer for Al Jazeera Arabic, widely recognized for his frontline reporting from northern Gaza during the Gaza war.
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Anas Jamal Mahmoud Al-Sharif
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| أنس جمال محمود الشريف | |
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| Born | 3 December 1996
Jabalia refugee camp, Gaza Strip, Palestine
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| Died | 10 August 2025
Gaza City, Gaza Strip, Palestine
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| Nationality | Palestinian |
| Occupation(s) | Journalist, correspondent, videographer |
| Employer | Al Jazeera Arabic |
| Known for | Reporting from northern Gaza during the Gaza war; killed while working |
For several months, the Israeli military accused Al-Sharif of being a Hamas operative, which human rights organizations and Al Jazeera condemned as a lie to justify the killing of journalists. The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) called on the international community to protect him. Al-Sharif was killed in an Israeli airstrike targeting a tent housing journalists outside Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City on 10 August 2025.
At the time of his death, Israel had killed more than 200 journalists in the Gaza war.
Early life and career
Anas Al-Sharif was born in the Jabalia refugee camp in the Gaza Strip in 1996. He graduated from Al-Aqsa University with a bachelor’s degree in mass communication, specializing in radio and television. He began his career volunteering at the Al-Shamal Media Network before joining Al Jazeera as a northern Gaza correspondent.
Since October 2023, Al-Sharif became one of the most visible faces reporting on the war in Gaza, refusing to evacuate the north despite repeated Israeli orders and direct threats to his life. He continued daily coverage through airstrikes, massacres, and displacement, often working under extreme danger and chronic shortages of basic supplies. His reporting provided crucial footage and testimony from one of the most inaccessible war zones globally.
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Al-Sharif received phone calls from the Israeli military telling him to leave northern Gaza in November 2023. The following month, his father was killed in an Israeli airstrike on their family home in Jabalia in December 2023. Due to poor health, his father had been unable to evacuate their home with the rest of their family.
Al-Sharif described the experience as both “cruel” and “painful”, yet said it strengthened his resolve to continue telling the stories of Gaza’s suffering.
While reporting live on the January 2025 Gaza war ceasefire, Al-Sharif removed his protective gear. Cheering bystanders raised him on their shoulders in celebration.
Hossam Shabat, Al-Sharif’s colleague, was killed by Israel in March 2025. Al-Sharif participated in the funeral procession. He told Drop Site News that he was determined to continue reporting despite Israeli threats and the loss of his father.
On 31 July 2025, UN Special Rapporteur Irene Khan condemned repeated threats and smear campaigns by the Israeli army against Al-Sharif, calling them dangerous attempts to silence his reporting on the genocide in Gaza.
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She highlighted how Al-Sharif, described as “the last surviving journalist of Al Jazeera in northern Gaza,” has been accused without evidence of being a Hamas terrorist, placing his life at serious risk. Khan stressed that, while Israel bars international reporters from entering Gaza, it simultaneously targets and undermines local journalists, who serve as the world’s “eyes” on atrocities.
Death
Since 2024, Anas Al-Sharif faced mounting threats from the Israeli army, including phone calls, voice messages, and social media campaigns, which falsely claimed that he was a Hamas operative.
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The IDF’s Arabic spokesperson, Avichay Adraee, accused Al-Sharif and other journalists of terrorism, while human rights organizations and Al Jazeera described the claims as baseless attacks aimed at justifying the killing of journalists and suppression of unfavorable reporting towards Israel.
The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) called the attacks against Al-Sharif a “precursor to assassination” and urged international action to protect him and other journalists in Gaza, highlighting the deliberate risk faced by local reporters as the “last eyes and ears of the outside world” on the conflict.
On 10 August 2025, Anas Al-Sharif was killed in an Israeli airstrike on a tent outside Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City. His colleagues Mohammed Qreiqeh, Ibrahim Zaher, Mohammed Noufal, and Moamen Aliwa were also killed in the bombing.
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The Israeli military confirmed they had targeted Al-Sharif, reiterating their claim that he was a Hamas fighter. Al Jazeera condemned the killing as a “premeditated assassination” intended to “silence voices in anticipation of the occupation of Gaza” in reference Israel’s recently announced plan to occupy the strip. At the time of his death, Israel had killed more than 200 journalists in the Gaza war.
