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Remembering Anas al-Sharif: Without Distortion or Falsification

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July 31, 2024. Anas al-Sharif and his colleagues honor their slain colleague, Al Jazeera journalist Ismail al-Ghoul, who the occupation killed along with his cameraman Rami al-Rifi. Photo by Omar al-Qattaa.
July 15, 2026

Two months before he was assassinated by Israel, Anas al-Sharif wrote as part of his final testament, “I have lived through pain in all its details, tasted suffering and loss many times, yet I never once hesitated to convey the truth as it is, without distortion or falsification.”

August 10 marks one year since the beloved Palestinian journalist was martyred outside Al-Shifa Hospital in northern Gaza. He was 28. His fellow Al Jazeera colleagues Mohammed Qreiqeh, Ibrahim Zaher, Moamen Aliwa, Mohammed Noufal, and Mohammed al-Khalidi were also martyred in the targeted strike.

Al-Sharif was born in 1996 in the Jabalia camp in northern Gaza. He studied radio and television broadcasting at Al-Aqsa University before going on to work as a freelance journalist. Shortly after the genocide began, he started reporting for Al Jazeera, quickly becoming one of the most recognizable faces to reach the world from Gaza. Despite receiving repeated death threats from the occupation, al-Sharif refused to abandon his post.

“The work [of journalists] in Gaza is continuous. We don’t sleep for days as a result of the continuous bombing and shelling,” al-Sharif told Drop Site News in September 2024. He committed his life to reporting on Israel’s genocidal war from the front lines in northern Gaza, conveying through his tireless coverage what the Western media, through its recitation of Zionist lies, tried to conceal.

In 2024, al-Sharif contributed to The New York War Crimes, chronicling the recovery of his colleague and friend, Al Jazeera cameraman Fadi al-Wahidi, after he was shot in the neck by a quadcopter drone while wearing his flak jacket marked “PRESS.” We felt the incalculable weight of that piece of protective equipment months later as we watched al-Sharif slowly remove his jacket while announcing the temporary ceasefire from Gaza City in January 2025. The crowd that gathered around hoisted him over their shoulders, al-Sharif grinning as it fell to the ground.

While reporting live outside Al-Shifa Hospital in July 2025, al-Sharif broke down on camera. He had just watched a woman collapse from hunger. The Zionists were escalating their killing sprees at so-called “food distribution points,” where bags of flour became spotted with blood. A man off-screen urged him to continue reporting. “Keep going, Mr. Anas,” he said. “Keep going. You are our voice.”

Continuance has been al-Sharif’s watchword. It must also be ours. To recall, again, his final words: “Do not forget Gaza.”

This piece appears in the twenty-second issue of The New York War Crimes.