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The Guardian - UK
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Malak A Tantesh in Gaza and Lorenzo Tondo in Jerusalem

Global outrage mounts as funeral held for five journalists killed by Israel

Mourners march with the bodies of  journalists who were killed in an overnight Israeli strike on their tent outside a hospital in Gaza City.
Mourners march with the bodies of journalists who were killed in an overnight Israeli strike on their tent outside a hospital in Gaza City. Photograph: Omar Al-Qattaa/AFP/Getty Images

The death of the prominent Al Jazeera journalist Anas al-Sharif, killed along with four colleagues in an Israeli airstrike on Sunday, prompted condemnation from around the world, as hundreds of mourners carried their bodies through the streets of Gaza City.

Sharif, one of Al Jazeera’s most recognisable faces in Gaza, was killed while inside a tent for journalists outside al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City on Sunday night. Seven people were killed in the attack, including the Al Jazeera correspondent Mohammed Qreiqeh and the camera operators Ibrahim Zaher, Mohammed Noufal and Moamen Aliwa, according to the Qatar-based broadcaster.

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