Protests and memorials have erupted worldwide, and calls for accountability are growing after four Al Jazeera staff members were assassinated in an Israeli strike on Gaza.
Late on Sunday, an Israeli attack hit a media tent outside the main gate of al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, killing Al Jazeera Arabic correspondent Anas al-Sharif, 28, along with colleagues, correspondent Mohammed Qreiqeh, 33, and cameramen Ibrahim Zaher, 25, and Mohammed Noufal, 29.
Also killed were freelance cameraman Momen Aliwa, 23, and freelance journalist Mohammed al-Khalidi, 37.
Gaza’s Government Media Office says at least 238 journalists have been killed since Israel’s war on Gaza began in late 2023.
The latest killings have prompted outrage around the world. In Ramallah in the occupied West Bank, Palestinians filled the streets, waving flags and carrying photographs of the slain reporters.
Hundreds rallied in Tunisia, demanding accountability for the attacks. Protests took place in Northern Ireland’s capital, Belfast and Republic of Ireland’s capital, Dublin, while vigils were held in Berlin, Germany and the Netherlands. Earlier demonstrations took place in Washington, DC, as well as London, Oslo and Stockholm.
In the US capital, Washington, DC, protesters gathered outside a building housing NBC, Fox News, ITN and The Guardian.
Demonstrators were “banging pots and pans, making as much noise as possible” to disrupt live broadcasts happening inside, said Al Jazeera’s Shihab Rattansi, reporting from the scene.
“The demonstrators say their coverage of the genocide in Gaza has given Israel room to kill so many Palestinians and, notably, so many journalists,” he said.
“Their message is: You are no longer the gatekeepers. We know what’s happening in Gaza. We know about the genocide despite your best efforts,” he added.
Rattansi said candles were lit for each journalist killed in Gaza, with particular attention given to al-Sharif.
![Wael Al-Dahdouh (R), Al Jazeera's bureau chief in Gaza, stands next to Al Jazeera anchor and presenter Mohamed Krichen (L) as he holds the portrait of Anas al-Sharif during a moment of silence to honour Anas and four other colleagues, killed in an overnight Israeli strike in Gaza City [Karim Jaafar/AFP]](http://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/000_699Z86A-1754983484.jpg?w=770&resize=770%2C513&quality=80)
Hazami Barmada, one of the organisers of the Washington, DC protest, told Al Jazeera the media organisations had helped to create “public consent for the murder of these journalists … by making excuses for the Israeli government to target and kill them”.
She added: “After their death, [the media organisations] continue to justify the illegal death, shooting, bombing and murdering journalists, which is a crime against humanity and a war crime.”
Press freedom group PEN America said the killing of the journalists in Gaza “raises grave concerns” and “could amount to a war crime”.
“This attack not only wiped out an entire team of journalists – at a time when there are fewer and fewer voices able to report from Gaza – but also took six more Palestinian lives in an onslaught that has already cl