This Beloved Al Jazeera Journalist Broke Down In Tears While Reporting On The Starvation Of People In Gaza
During a live broadcast on Sunday, July 20, Sharif couldn’t hold back his tears when he saw a woman falling on the ground from hunger in front of him.
Beloved Al Jazeera journalist Anas Al-Sharif broke down in tears during a live broadcast while reporting on the starvation Palestinians are facing in Gaza.
During a live broadcast on Sunday, July 20, Sharif couldn’t hold back his tears when he saw a woman falling on the ground from hunger in front of him.
“I haven’t stopped covering for a moment in 21 months. And today, I say it outright… And with indescribable pain. I’m drowning in hunger, trembling in exhaustion, and resisting the fainting that follows me every moment,” Sharif said.
Since March 2, Israel has blocked all aid from entering Gaza, leaving more than 2.3 million Palestinians to starve for more than 80 days and allowed only a “basic” amount of aid to enter, but through the controversial US- and Israeli-backed aid agency, Gaza Humanitarian Foundation.
76 children and 10 adults have been killed due to malnutrition in Gaza since Israel began its blockade, with 18 people dying from starvation on the same day, Gaza’s health ministry reported.
Families in Gaza have reported eating one meal per day or less, and about one-third of all households report going entire days without eating.
Doctors and aid workers, themselves malnourished, struggle to treat a constant influx of starving and emaciated patients.
Israel’s military spokesperson then called Sharif a Hamas member, saying that Sharif shed “crocodile tears” for “propaganda.”
Sharif, meanwhile, said this was Israel’s latest threat against him.
Israel has killed more than 228 journalists in Gaza since Oct. 7, 2023.
“We stand in front of the camera trying to look stable, but the truth is that we are falling apart inside. Gaza is dying... And we die with it. And if the world does not move today, tomorrow there may be no one waiting to be saved. This death must stop. This siege must be broken. And this war must end,” Sharif said.
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