Ahmed Abu Sharia, a Palestinian freelance photographer and editor who worked for several outlets, including Iran’s Tasnim News Agency, was killed when Israeli tanks shelled his home in the Sabra neighborhood in southern Gaza City on November 19, 2024.
Abu Sharia, 32, was a father of two girls.
“At 9 a.m. on Tuesday, Ahmed was at home…with a number of his cousins, eating breakfast, when an Israeli tank shelled the house with a single shell, killing Ahmed and one of his cousins and wounding five others,” Yousef Abu Sharia, Ahmed’s father, told CPJ.
“Ahmed worked throughout the war as a field photographer and editor to convey the truth about what was happening in Gaza City and to practice the profession he loved since he was a child because of me, as I was working as a photographer with the AP,” Yousef Abu Sharia added.
CPJ’s email to the Israel Defense Forces’ North America Media Desk asking whether the military knew there was a journalist in the area it attacked and whether Abu Sharia was targeted for his work did not immediately receive a response.