Five Al Jazeera journalists were killed today by an Israeli airstrike near Gaza City’s Al-Shifa Hospital. Among them was prominent Arabic correspondent and frontline news reporter Anas al-Sharif , who — alongside Bisan Owda — received Amnesty International’s Human Rights Defender Award in December of last year.

Colleague Mohammed Qreiqeh and camera operators Ibrahim Zaher, Mohammed Noufal and Moamen Aliwa were also killed, the network said . Two additional people were also killed, including a journalist from another outlet.

In an official statement from the broadcaster, Al Jazeera said it “condemns in the strongest terms the targeted assassination of its correspondents” by the Israeli settlers in “yet another blatant and premeditated attack on press freedom.”

“The order to a

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