Nick Schifrin:
In Gaza today, the story so often is death. And now death stalks those who tell the story.
For a moment today, the storytellers fell silent for Al-Jazeera’s Anas Al-Sharif and Mohammed Qreiqeh, mourned with the bulletproof vests that failed to protect. There is a fierce pride and brotherhood among Gaza’s journalists. And, today, they prayed over the body of a man they considered a mentor who shared their story.
Al-Sharif was a well-known correspondent who began reporting for Al-Jazeera after the war began. He, like everyone in Gaza, was suffering from a lack of food and, while describing a woman who collapsed from hunger, broke down during a live broadcast. A missile fired by an Israeli drone killed him and four other journalists last night in the tent where they were living outside Shifa Hospital.
Journalist Mohammed Qeita was 20 feet away and was injured in his lower back.
