This is perhaps the hardest thing I’m reporting about the past 22 months.
I’m not far from Al-Shifa Hospital, just one block away, and I could hear the massive explosion that took place in the past half an hour or so, near Al-Shifa Hospital.
I could see it when it lit up the sky, and within moments, the news circulated that it was the journalist camp at the main gate of the Al-Shifa Hospital.
At this particular time of the night, it calms down, all the journalists had gathered in one area, trying to either talk to each other, help each other to survive these conditions, when a drone strike hit the camp, killing Anas al-Sharif and his colleague Mohammed Qreiqeh.
Both are correspondents of Al Jazeera Arabic on the ground.
They have been reporting on the atrocities of the Israeli military, the airstrikes, the enforced starvation and dehydration of the past months.
It’s important to highlight that this attack is just a week after an Israeli military official directly accused Anas and directly ran a campaign of incitement on Al Jazeera and correspondents on the ground because of their work, because of their relentless reporting on the starvation and the famine and the malnutrition.
Because they’re bringing the truth of this crime to everyone.
And just a week after that statement was made by a prominent Israeli military official it got translated on the ground by targeting this tent and killing two of the most prominent journalists on the ground.