News - Yemen: Member of Ansarullah's Political Bureau, Muhammad Al-Farah, affirmed that the Zionist enemy entity fabricates false allegations and accusations against journalists to justify their killing and targeting.

In a post on his "X" platform page, Al-Farah stated that the martyrdom of Anas Al-Sharif, Muhammad Qurayq', and other journalists targeted by the enemy in Gaza clearly demonstrates that the enemy is intent on committing massacres and genocide and does not want anyone left to convey them to the world.

He explained that killing journalists in Gaza is a killing of the truth and an attempt to conceal the crimes and massacres committed by the Israeli enemy against besieged civilians. He emphasized that targeting journalists at the beginning of escalation serves as an intimidation message to other journalists—warning them to remain silent about the massacres, crimes, and genocide—or else face the same fate.

The Ansarullah political member stressed that people must not accept the enemy’s false justifications for killing journalists, as its real goal is to silence the voice of words and images that expose its crimes and reveal to the world the suffering of Gaza’s people and the brutality of this criminal Zionist enemy.

He pointed out that exposing the enemy’s crimes must intensify, no matter the risks, and that its attempts to suffocate the truth and suppress words and images that expose its criminality must not be allowed. He also expressed his condolences to the people of Gaza and the families of journalists Al-Sharif and Qurayq'.

Israeli forces killed five Al Jazeera staff, including Al-Jazeera correspondents Anas Al-Sharif and Mohammed Qareqa, as well as photographers Ibrahim Zaher and Mohammed Nofal, in a targeted strike on their media tent outside Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City on Sunday evening. Two other people were also killed. 

Shortly before being killed, al-Sharif, a well-known 28-year-old Al Jazeera Arabic correspondent who had reportedly extensively covered from northern Gaza, wrote on X that Israel had launched intense, concentrated bombardment – also known as “fire belts” – on the eastern and southern parts of Gaza City.

In his last video, the loud booms of Israel’s intensive missile bombing can be heard in the background as the dark sky is lit in a flash of orange light.

In a final message, written on April 6, to be published in the event of his martyrdom, al-Sharif said he “lived the pain in all its details” and “tasted grief and loss repeatedly”.

“Despite that, I never hesitated to convey the truth as it is, without distortion or misrepresentation, hoping that God would witness those who remained silent, those who accepted our killing, and those who suffocated our very breaths,” he said.

“Not even the mangled bodies of our children and women moved their hearts or stopped the massacre that our people have been subjected to for over a year and a half.”

The number of journalists martyred in Zionist attacks has risen to 237 after the targeting of a journalists' tent housing an Al Jazeera news crew.

The death toll since the start of Israel’s genocidal war is nearing 61,000, with over 150,000 injured.