Israel kills Al Jazeera journalist it says was Hamas leader

August 11, 2025 10:50 AM

Israel kills Al Jazeera journalist it says was Hamas leader

Israel's military said it killed an Al Jazeera journalist it accused of being a Hamas cell leader in a Gaza airstrike on Sunday, but rights advocates said he had been targeted for his frontline reporting on the Gaza war and Israel's claim lacked evidence. Anas Al Sharif, 28, was among a group of four Al Jazeera journalists and an assistant who died in a strike on a tent near Shifa Hospital in eastern Gaza City, Gaza officials and Al Jazeera said. An official at the hospital said two other peo...

Israeli strikes kill 22 in Beirut as Hezbollah leader evades assassination

October 11, 2024 11:06 AM

Israeli strikes kill 22 in Beirut as Hezbollah leader evades assassination

Israeli strikes killed 22 people and injured more than 100 in central Beirut on Thursday, Lebanese authorities said, as a senior Hezbollah official evaded an Israeli assassination attempt in the city, according to three security sources. In Lebanon's south, two United Nations peacekeepers were injured when an Israeli tank fired at a watchtower at the force's main headquarters in Naqoura, prompting the U.N. to say its personnel were facing increasing danger. The conflict between Israel and Hezb...

Israeli authorities raid Al Jazeera after shutdown order

May 6, 2024 10:26 AM

Israeli authorities raid Al Jazeera after shutdown order

Israeli authorities raided a Jerusalem hotel room used by Al Jazeera as its office after the government decided to shut down the Qatari-owned TV station's local operations on Sunday, an Israeli official and an Al Jazeera source told Reuters. Video circulated online showed plainclothes officers dismantling camera equipment in a hotel room, which the Al Jazeera source said was in East Jerusalem. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's cabinet shut down the network for as long as the war in Gaza cont...