A Palestinian journalist who worked for Al-Jazeera has been killed by Israel in an airstrike. Loading audio...

Arabic Correspondent Anas Al-Sharif, 28, died on Sunday evening outside the main gate of Gaza City’s al-Shifa Hospital

Al-Sharif was killed alongside four other colleagues - correspondent Mohammed Qreiqeh and camera operators Ibrahim Zaher, Mohammed Noufal and Moamen Aliwa - in the attack on their tent, according to Al-Jazeera.

The IDF has claimed Al-Sharif was a Hamas terrorist who posed as a journalist - a claim which Al Jazeera has strongly denied.

In a post to social media, the IDF said: “Al-Sharif was the head of a Hamas terrorist cell and advanced rocket attacks on Israeli civilians and IDF troops.

“Intelligence and documents from Gaza, including rosters, terrorist tr

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