(13 Aug 2025)
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Mexico City – 12 August 2025
++ NIGHT SHOTS ++
1. Candles lit in memory of Al Jazeera journalists killed in Gaza
2. Close of photo of slain journalist Anas al-Sharif at vigil
3. Person wearing Palestinian keffiyeh
4. Person placing candle at vigil
5. Reporters covering vigil
6. Close of person lighting candle
7. Various of protesters shouting slogans
8. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Esteban Calderon, visual artist:
"Tonight is a night of mourning for journalism in general and for the six journalists killed in Gaza. The six were Al Jazeera’s last remaining journalists. The most beloved and best known was Anas al-Sharif."
9. Demonstrators shouting slogans, seen from behind
10. Demonstrator wrapped in Palestinian flag
11. Demonstrator recording vigil on phone
12. Musician performing
13. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Teresa Caltzontzin, retiree:
"Even though I feel powerless, I have to do something, and this is what I can do: come and stand with others who feel the same to protest."
14. Various of demonstrators lighting candles
15. Close of woman wearing keffiyeh
16. Pull from vigil to person holding photo of al-Sharif
17. Close of al-Sharif’s photo in demonstrator’s hands
18. Banner reading (Spanish): "Israel assassin – Journalists are not terrorists – Stop genocide now"
STORYLINE:
Journalists and activists gathered in Mexico City on Tuesday to demand justice for Al Jazeera correspondent Anas al-Sharif and other reporters targeted and killed by Israel in Gaza late Sunday.
The demonstrators held a night vigil in the capital’s downtown and urged the Mexican government to cut ties with Israel.
Both Israel and hospital officials in Gaza City confirmed the deaths of al-Sharif and colleagues, which the Committee to Protect Journalists and others described as retribution against those documenting the war in Gaza.
Israel’s military asserted that al-Sharif had led a Hamas cell — an allegation that Al Jazeera and al-Sharif previously dismissed as baseless.
Observers have called this the deadliest conflict for journalists in modern times.
Officials at Shifa Hospital said those killed while sheltering outside Gaza City’s largest hospital complex also included Al Jazeera correspondent Mohamed Qreiqeh, plus four other journalists and two other people.
Four of the six slain journalists were Al Jazeera staffers.
The airstrike occurred hours after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu defended a planned military offensive into some of Gaza’s most populated areas, including Gaza City, and said he directed the military to "bring in more foreign journalists" to Gaza.
Condemnation has poured in from the U.N. human rights office, the Foreign Press Association, the Committee to Protect Journalists, the International Press Institute and Amnesty International, among others.
Apart from rare invitations to observe Israeli military operations, international media have been barred from entering Gaza for the duration of the war.
Despite being blocked in Israel, Al Jazeera is among the few outlets still fielding a big team of reporters inside the besieged strip, chronicling daily life amid airstrikes, hunger and the rubble of destroyed neighborhoods.
The Committee to Protect Journalists said on Monday that at least 192 journalists have been killed since Israel’s war in Gaza began.
Sunday’s strike brings the total number of Al Jazeera staff journalists killed during the war to 10, not including 8 freelancers, according to CPJ data.
AP Video by Martín Silva Rey
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