The Israel Defense Forces said that it killed a man in Gaza who it claimed was posing as an Al Jazeera journalist, but the news network said that Anas al-Sharif was a journalist and that he and four other staff members were killed in a targeted Israeli airstrike.

In its coverage, Al Jazeera termed the killings of al-Sharif and four other staffers murder.

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The network said that al-Sharif; another journalist, Mohammed Qreiqeh; and camera operators Ibrahim Zaher, Mohammed Noufal and Moamen Aliwa were killed.

The network reported that they died “in a targeted Israeli strike on a tent housing journalists in Gaza City.”

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