Sharif, 28, drew millions of followers on social media and emerged as one of the top voices in the Arab world for his chronicling of the war in Gaza.

A group of journalists working for Al Jazeera were killed over the weekend in what the network is calling an attack by Israeli occupation forces in Gaza. The network condemned the attack that killed correspondents Anas Al Sharif and Mohammed Qraiqea,

Al Jazeera had condemned a "campaign of incitement" by the IDF against its reporters, but the military claims one of the journalists was part of Hamas.