This post is also available in:
English 
Italiano (Italian)
Short answer
The IDF eliminated Anas al-Sharif near Shifa Hospital On August 10, 2025. Al-Sharif was a man Al Jazeera called a “reporter” but who was actually a Hamas operative hiding behind a press vest. Hamas documents reveal he’d been on the Al-Qassam Brigades’ payroll since 2013, even running a rocket-firing terror cell targeting Israel.
In addition there are his grinning selfies with Yahya Sinwar, Hamas’s leader and Gaza’s most wanted terrorist posing like old friends. He proves once again that in Gaza, “independent journalism” is just Hamas-approved propaganda, with operatives swapping rifles for cameras.
Al-Sharif wasn’t a “journalist” he was a Hamas terrorist in disguise, and his elimination was a lawful strike on a combatant masquerading as press.
Long answer
On August 10, 2025, the IDF eliminated Anas al-Sharif at the journalists’ tent near Shifa Hospital in Gaza City. He was a man posing as a journalist for Al Jazeera, a Qatari-funded, pro-Hamas propaganda outlet.
Al-Sharif wasn’t a brave, unbiased reporter risking his life for “the truth.” He was a Hamas operative in a press vest, moonlighting as Al Jazeera’s man in Gaza. Hamas files seized by the IDF show he’d been on the Al-Qassam Brigades’ (Hamas military wing) payroll since 2013, with training rosters, salary slips, and records proving he led a terror cell involved in rocket attacks.Add to that smiling photos with Yahya Sinwar—Hamas’s military leader and Gaza’s most wanted terrorist mastermind—posing like old friends. These documents confirm his involvement in terrorism and expose how deeply Hamas operatives have been embedded in Al Jazeera’s Gaza operations.
In Gaza, “independent journalism” is anything but independent. Back in 2008, Reporters Without Borders warned that Hamas’s new “press accreditation” system was really about total control—shutting down rival outlets, banning newspapers they didn’t like, and jailing journalists without charges.
During the 2014 war (Operation Protective Edge), Hamas cemented its media rulebook—and it hasn’t changed since:
-No coverage of rockets being fired or fighters on the move.
-No photos of masked, armed operatives or launch sites.
-Endless focus on civilian suffering.
Nothing coming out of Gaza’s so-called “independent journalism” can be trusted. There is also substantial evidence that Hamas now tortures and sometimes kills journalists who dare to criticize them or post news critical of Hamas. A “journalist” like Anas al-Sharif—a terrorist officially accredited by Hamas—is a combatant: once with a rifle, now with a camera, advancing Hamas’s narrative. That’s why taking him out was a lawful strike on a Hamas operative disguised as a journalist.
