Israeli airstrikes kill five journalists

ISRAELI airstrikes have killed five journalists, including one of Gaza's best-known TV reporters during the war.

- BY CHRIS HUGHES and ASHLEY COWBURN

Anas al-Sharif, 28, was one of the Strip's most recognisable media people, reporting on the war for AI Jazeera for the past 22 months.

Four of his colleagues died - including correspondent Mohammed Qreiqeh, 33, who made his last report shortly before he was killed.

News assistant Mohammed Noufal and cameramen Ibrahim Zaher and Moamen Aliwa were also victims of the strike on their tent outside a Gaza hospital.

Qatar-based AI Jazeera called it a "targeted assassination" and said: "Anas and his colleagues were among the last remaining voices from within Gaza, providing the world with unfiltered, on-theground coverage of the devastating realities endured by its people." The Israeli Defence Forces claimed Anas led a Hamas cell, which AI Jazeera denied.