On Monday, August 11, a crowd of Gazans gathered around the white shrouds covering Al-Jazeera reporters Anas al-Sharif, 28, and Mohammed Qreiqeh, 33, along with four colleagues – cameramen Ibrahim Al-Thaer and Mohamed Nofal, and freelancers Mahmoud Aliwa and Mohammed Al-Khaldi – according to Reporters Without Borders (RSF). They were all killed the previous day by an Israeli strike on a tent sheltering Al-Jazeera's Arabic team near Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City.

Shortly before the strike, al-Sharif, a leading Al-Jazeera reporter in the Palestinian enclave during the war, warned of the intense bombing in Gaza City on Sunday evening as Israeli authorities unveiled plans for a full military occupation of Gaza. According to an Al-Jazeera witness, al-Sharif and his colleagues had just returned to their tent after finishing work for the day when a drone bombed the shelter of Al-Jazeera's Arabic channel, which was surrounded by other journalists' tents. Footage filmed soon after showed flames and bodies on the ground as men tried to help. The bodies were brought to Al-Shifa Hospital, where Mohammed Abou Salmiya, the director, described them as "burned and disfigured." "The bombing and explosions continued all night," the doctor added.

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