Meta has taken down the Instagram account of Anas Al-Sharif, the Al Jazeera journalist killed by Israel in Gaza last year, according to a notice published by those managing his accounts.

Al-Sharif was among the most widely followed journalists reporting from northern Gaza. On August 10, 2025, Israel assassinated him alongside several Al Jazeera colleagues in a strike on a journalists’ tent outside al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City. Israel accused him, without credible evidence, of being affiliated with Hamas, a claim rejected by both Al-Sharif and the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ).