Al Jazzeera’s Gaza correspondent, Anas al-Sharif, and four other staff members were killed by an Israeli drone strike on their tent in Gaza City shortly before midnight on Sunday. Photo: (Al Jazeera via AP)
Another Palestinian journalist on Monday succumbed to his injuries sustained in an Israeli strike that killed five Al Jazeera correspondents in Gaza City, taking the death toll of journalists to 238, local authorities said, according to Anadolu Agency.
Gaza’s Government Media Office said Mohammed Al-Khalidi, a Palestinian journalist working for the Sahat news outlet, died of his injuries sustained in last night’s Israeli strike.
The death of Khalidi brought the number of journalists killed in Gaza City on Sunday to six and the overall death toll of Palestinian journalists killed by the Israeli army in the Gaza Strip to 238, the media office said in a statement.
The Israeli army targeted a journalists’ tent near the Al-Shifa Hospital in western Gaza City on late Sunday, killing five journalists, including Al Jazeera correspondents Anas al-Sharif and Mohamed Qraiqea, according to the media office.
The Gaza government condemned “Israel’s systematic assassination of Palestinian reporters in Gaza” and called on human rights and media institutions to “condemn these systematic crimes against Gaza journalists.”
Israel is facing mounting condemnation for its genocidal war on Gaza, where it has killed more than 61,400 people since October 2023.