Palestinian freelance journalist Mohammad al-Khaldi, who contributed to the Palestinian NGO Filastiniyat and the local online platform Sahat, was murdered in a targeted Israeli strike on a tent housing journalists outside the main gate of Gaza City’s Al-Shifa Hospital. The attack killed Al Jazeera’s entire team of four staff journalists in the city, as well as Al Jazeera freelancer Moamen Aliwa.
"At 11:22 p.m. on Sunday, an Israeli drone bombed the Al Jazeera tent inside the Al-Shifa medical complex in western Gaza with a single missile. I was about 40 meters away from them, and shrapnel even reached me,” eyewitness and journalist Wadeaa Abu Al-Saud told CPJ.
On X, Israel’s military accused Al Jazeera's Anas al-Sharif, who was also killed, of being the “head of a Hamas terrorist cell” who “advanced rocket attacks” on Israelis. It did not mention the other journalist casualties.
Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) spokesperson Avichay Adraee made similar comments about al-Sharif on X, adding that “intelligence information and documents obtained from Gaza, including lists of names, terrorist training records, and payrolls, confirm that he was a Hamas operative integrated into Al Jazeera."
CPJ does not regard as credible the social media images, which include a “Phone directory” of a Hamas battalion and a Hamas “Injury Tracking Document from 2023,” and are clearly not original documents.
The IDF has a longstanding pattern of making unsubstantiated claims that many of the journalists they have deliberately killed in Gaza were terrorists.
The August 10 attack raises the numbers of Al Jazeera journalists killed by Israel in Gaza during the war to 10, in addition to nine journalists who freelanced with the broadcaster, according to CPJ data.
Al Jazeera condemned the “targeted assassination” of its journalists as “yet another blatant and premeditated attack on press freedom.”
“The order to assassinate Anas al-Sharif, one of Gaza's bravest journalists, and his colleagues, is a desperate attempt to silence the voices exposing the impending seizure and occupation of Gaza,” it said, calling for “decisive measures to halt this ongoing genocide and end the deliberate targeting of journalists.”
As of August 2025, CPJ’s email to the IDF’s North America Media Desk to request comment on the killings and additional detail on the terrorism allegations did not receive any response.