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Funerals are being held for five Al Jazeera journalists<\/a>, who were among seven people killed in an Israeli strike in Gaza City, according to the broadcaster<\/p>\n<\/li>\n The Israeli military says it targeted 28-year-old correspondent Anas al-Sharif, alleging he had “served as the head of a terrorist cell” in Hamas, but has\u00a0produced little evidence to support that claim<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n The BBC understands\u00a0Sharif worked for a Hamas media team in Gaza before the current conflict<\/a>\u00a0– in some of his social media posts before his death, the journalist criticised Hamas<\/p>\n<\/li>\n Al Jazeera called it a “targeted assassination”, and “another blatant and premeditated attack on press freedom”<\/p>\n<\/li>\n Fellow correspondent Mohammed Qreiqeh<\/a>, and camera operators Ibrahim Zaher, Mohammed Noufal and Moamen Aliwa were also killed in the attack – as was freelance reporter Mohammad al-Khaldi<\/p>\n<\/li>\n The\u00a0UN condemned their killings as a “grave breach of international humanitarian law”<\/a>, while the Committee to Protect Journalists says 186 journalists have now been killed since the start of Israel’s military offensive in Gaza in October 2023<\/p>\n<\/li>\n The Israeli government does not allow international news organisations, including the BBC, into Gaza to report freely, so many outlets rely on Gaza-based reporters for coverage<\/p>\n<\/li>\n