Palestinians attended on Monday (August 11) the funeral of Al Jazeera journalists Anas Al Sharif and Mohammed Qreiqeh who were both killed along with three colleagues, in an Israeli airstrike on Sunday (August 10) in an attack condemned by journalists and rights groups.

Israel's military said it targeted and killed Anas Al Sharif, alleging he had headed a Hamas militant cell and was involved in rocket attacks on Israel.

Al Jazeera, which is funded by the Qatari government, rejected the assertion, and before his death, Al Sharif had also rejected such claims by Israel.

Al Sharif, 28, was among a group of four Al Jazeera journalists and an assistant who died in an airstrike on a tent near Al Shifa Hospital in eastern Gaza City, Gaza officials and Al Jazeera said. An official at the hospital said two other people were killed in the strike.

A sixth journalist, Mohammad Al-Khaldi, a local freelance reporter, was also killed in the strike, medics at Al Shifa Hospital said on Monday.

Calling Al Sharif "one of Gaza's bravest journalists," Al Jazeera said the attack was a "desperate attempt to silence voices in anticipation of the occupation of Gaza."

The other journalists killed were Mohammed Qreiqeh, Ibrahim Zaher and Mohammed Noufal, Al Jazeera said.

"The deliberate targeting of journalists by Israel in the Gaza Strip reveals how these crimes are beyond imagination," Qatari Prime Minister, Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al-Thani, said on X.

The U.N. human rights office condemned the killing of the journalists, saying the actions by Israel's military represented a "grave breach of international humanitarian law" as Palestinians reported the heaviest bombardments in weeks.

Al Sharif was previously part of a Reuters team which in 2024 won a Pulitzer Prize in the category of Breaking News Photography for coverage of the Israel-Hamas war.

A press freedom group and a United Nations expert previously warned that Al Sharif's life was in danger due to his reporting from Gaza. U.N. Special Rapporteur Irene Khan said last month that Israel's claims against him were unsubstantiated.

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1. VARIOUS OF PALESTINIANS GATHERING TO ATTEND FUNERAL OF AL JAZEERA JOURNALISTS WHO WERE KILLED BY ISRAELI STRIKE

2. VARIOUS OF PALESTINIANS GATHERING AROUND BODIES OF AL JAZEERA JOURNALISTS WHO WERE KILLED BY ISRAELI STRIKE, ANAS AL SHARIF AND MOHAMMED QREIQEH, WITH A PRESS VEST PLACED ON THEM

3. PALESTINIANS CARRYING BODIES OF AL SHARIF AND QREIQEH, CHANTING

4. PALESTINIAN HUGGING COVERED BODY

5. VARIOUS OF PALESTINIANS GATHERING AROUND BODIES COVERED WITH THE PALESTINIAN FLAG AND A PRESS VEST

6. VARIOUS OF PALESTINIANS CARRYING THE COVERED BODIES AND MARCHING WHILE CHANTING DURING FUNERAL

7. VARIOUS OF JOURNALISTS GATHERING IN A TENT

8. MAN WEARING PRESS VEST AND ANOTHER PALESTINIAN FILMING WITH THEIR PHONES

9. PEOPLE WALKING PAST CAMERA ON TRIPOD IN FRONT OF A TENT

10. PALESTINIAN HOLDING CAMERA, FILMING

11. VARIOUS OF JOURNALISTS REPORTING AND FILMING WITH THEIR EQUIPMENT

12. PALESTINIANS GREETING EACH OTHER

13. PEOPLE GATHERING