UN offers condolences on Israel’s killing of Al Jazeera staff
Stephane Dujarric, the spokesperson for UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, has issued a statement on the killing of Al Jazeera journalists in Gaza City.
“We send our condolences to [the] Al Jazeera family,” Dujarric said.
“We are looking into what happened in Gaza today.
“We have always been very clear in condemning all killings of journalists. In Gaza, and everywhere, media workers should be able to carry out their work freely and without harassment, intimidation or fear of being targeted. It is essential that journalists be allowed to freely access all areas of Gaza and to independently report on the situation there,” he added.
Israel killed Al Jazeera crew to ‘prevent coverage’ of Gaza City operation
Ori Goldberg, an Israeli political commentator, describes Israel’s killing of Al Jazeera’s journalists in Gaza City as a “targeted murder” and an “assassination”.
“And the motivation is only too clear,” he told Al Jazeera from Tel Aviv.
“These journalists were Gaza’s last hope of Israel’s impending operation against Gaza City to be revealed and brought to the attention of the rest of the world. When Israel assassinated Anas al-Sharif and the rest of his team, Israel was trying to intentionally prevent journalistic coverage of this impending operation,” he said.
Goldberg also called on international media to hold Israel to account.
“This is up to the standards of collegiality and professional solidarity that other journalists should have towards those very, very brave men and women who have been covering events in Gaza on the ground,” he said.
“If the international media breaks off from the narrative that most of it has been promoting so significantly, so profoundly over the past 22 months – the narrative where Hamas and the Palestinians are directly responsible for any kind of violent death or hostility, but whatever Israel does is described as some kind of mysterious element or described in the passive tense… If journalists start ascribing responsibility to Israeli actions all over the world, I believe it would be a fitting homage to the memory of Anas and the other brave journalists who died in Gaza, and it would perhaps begin making amends for what is ultimately a crime of aiding and abetting the Israeli narrative that has dominated the global media over the past 22 months.”
Palestine’s UN mission condemns killing of Al Jazeera staff
The Palestinian mission to the UN says that Israel has “deliberately assassinated” Al Jazeera journalists Anas al-Sharif and Mohammed Qreiqeh by bombing their tent in Gaza City.
Al-Sharif and Qreiqeh were among the “last remaining journalists” in Gaza, and they have “systematically and dutifully exposed and documented Israel’s genocide and starvation”, the mission said in a post on X.
“As Israel continues to ethnically cleanse Gaza, its enemy remains the truth: the brave journalists exposing its heinous crimes,” the mission added.
Israel bombed the journalists’ tent in Gaza and deliberately assassinated the last remaining journalists, including @AnasAlsharif0 & @Mohamed_qraiqea, who have systematically and dutifully exposed and documented Israel’s genocide and starvation.
Israel killed over 230… pic.twitter.com/nqiDZMfefF
— State of Palestine (@Palestine_UN) August 10, 2025
