Israel's military targeted and killed five Al Jazeera journalists in Gaza on Sunday, including Al Jazeera correspondent Anas al-Sharif, who only three weeks earlier had appealed to the Committee to Protect Journalists over fears he might be assassinated.

Al-Sharif began reporting for Al Jazeera a few days after the war began in 2023. He was known for reporting on Israel's bombardment in northern Gaza, and later for covering the hunger gripping much of the territory's population.

In a July broadcast, al-Sharif cried on air as a woman behind him collapsed, apparently from malnutrition.

"I am talking about slow death of those people," he said in the report.

Israel took responsibility for the strike, claiming al-Shariff was a leader of a Hamas cell — an allegation that Al Jazeera and al-Sh

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