Al Jazeera condemns Israeli incitement against Gaza reporter Anas al-Sharif

Al Jazeera says incitement run aims to ‘justify targeting of journalists’ arsenic Israel continues to bombard Gaza.

Al Jazeera Media Network has denounced the Israeli subject for what it called a “campaign of incitement” against its reporters successful the Gaza Strip, including astir notably Al Jazeera Arabic analogous Anas al-Sharif.

In a connection connected Friday, Al Jazeera said it “strongly condemns and denounces these relentless efforts, which person consistently incited against its unit since the opening of its sum of the ongoing Israeli warfare connected Gaza”.

“The Network considers this incitement a unsafe effort to warrant the targeting of its journalists successful the field.”

The connection comes conscionable days aft Israeli service spokesperson Avichai Adraee reshared a video connected societal media accusing al-Sharif of being a subordinate of Hamas’s subject helping – a assertion that has been forcefully rejected arsenic false.

Israel has routinely accused Palestinian journalists successful Gaza of being members of Hamas since it launched its warfare connected the enclave successful October 2023 arsenic portion of what rights groups accidental is an effort to discredit their reporting connected Israeli abuses.

The Israeli subject has killed more than 200 reporters and media workers since its bombardment began, including respective Al Jazeera journalists and their relatives.

On Thursday, the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) said it was “deeply alarmed” by Adraee’s threats against al-Sharif and called connected the planetary assemblage to support him.

“This is not the archetypal clip Al-Sharif has been targeted by the Israeli military, but the information to his beingness is present acute,” CPJ’s Regional Director Sara Qudah said successful a statement.

“Israel has killed astatine slightest six Al Jazeera journalists successful Gaza during this war. These latest unfounded accusations correspond an effort to manufacture consent to termination Al-Sharif.”

In its statement, Al Jazeera Media Network said it held the Israeli authorities “fully responsible” for the information of its staff. It besides called connected states and planetary organisations to guarantee that each journalists successful Gaza are protected.

“Israel’s continued obstruction of planetary journalists from entering Gaza to study connected the catastrophic concern has placed an adjacent greater load connected Al Jazeera’s journalists,” the web said.

Those reporters, it added, “have shouldered the work of conveying the information arsenic they witnesser it firsthand, contempt enduring utmost hardships, including starvation, violence, terror, and a implicit deficiency of life’s astir basal necessities”.