'If these words reach you ... Israel has succeeded in killing me': the last words of a journalist killed in Gaza
Source: The Guardian
Anas al-Sharif, an Al Jazeera reporter, was killed by an Israeli airstrike on Sunday night. This is the message he had prepared for his family, and his call for the world not to forget Gaza
The following statement was posthumously published on Anas al-Sharif’s X account, after an attack on a tent for journalists near al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City. Seven people in total were killed including al-Sharif, the Al Jazeera correspondent Mohammed Qreiqeh, and camera operators Ibrahim Zaher, Mohammed Noufal and Moamen Aliwa, according to Al Jazeera.
This is my will and my final message. If these words reach you, know that Israel has succeeded in killing me and silencing my voice.
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/aug/11/anas-al-sharif-al-jazeera-journalist-killed-gaza-israeli-airstrike
A beautiful request for the world not to forget him, Palestine, his family, and Gaza. Please read, and weep.
Anas al-Sharif with his daughter, Sham, and son, Salah. Photograph: Faceboook
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The rest of the world has to ban together to save these people. Not just deliver platitudes, but physically go save them. Should have been done months ago. Shove the legalities.
Netanyahu must answer for his war crimes.
Listening between the lines, it seems like many if not all of AJ's Gaza reporters may have prepared these types of wills or final statements. There is some video of him with his daughter that is almost unbearable to watch, knowing now that her dad is dead. Judging by what the other AJ staff and presenters are saying, not only the Gaza reporters/crew but their families are aware of these risks. al-Sharif may have done the unthinkable (emotionally speaking) and prepared his children for the probability of his death.
The Gaza reporters (and their crews) have so much courage. Every morning when I turn on AJ I know there is a possibility (that is more and more becoming a probability) that one day one or more of the three presenters on AJ English in Gaza, who I have watched report from the rubble of Gaza almost every day now for 22 months (Hanni, Hind and Tareq, I think) will have been killed.
These are remarkably courageous people, although sometimes I do wonder if AJ should pull them. As the space for civilians shrinks, I don't see how the risk doesn't just keep rising dramatically. You know Israel doesn't want anyone to report on what comes next.
