An Israeli airstrike late on 10 August struck a tent used by Al Jazeera journalists outside Gaza City’s Al-Shifa Hospital, killing five staff members from the Qatari-owned broadcaster and at least one freelance reporter, according to the network and medical officials. Al Jazeera identified the dead as correspondent Anas Al-Sharif, fellow reporter Mohammed Qreiqea and cameramen Ibrahim Zaher, Mohammed Noufal and Moamen Aliwa. The Israel Defense Forces said the strike was aimed specifically at Al-Sharif, whom it accused of heading a Hamas militant cell responsible for rocket attacks. The channel rejected the claim as baseless and described the raid as a "targeted assassination" intended to silence one of the few remaining voices reporting from northern Gaza. The UN Human Rights Office called the attack a “grave breach of international humanitarian law,” while Secretary-General António Guterres, the Committee to Protect Journalists and Reporters Without Borders all issued statements condemning the killings and urging accountability. Qatar’s prime minister said the strike represented a deliberate attempt to suppress press freedom. The latest deaths raise the toll on media workers in the 22-month Gaza war to at least 186, according to CPJ, and to 238 by the count of the enclave’s Hamas-run media office, making the conflict the deadliest on record for journalists. It is also the first time during the war that Israel has swiftly acknowledged responsibility for a strike that killed journalists.