Palestinians in Gaza today buried five staffers from the Arab network Al Jazeera targeted by Israel last night outside a hospital, and also reported some of the heaviest Israeli bombardment in weeks.

Health authorities reported at least 34 people killed after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu continued to defend his plan to occupy Gaza's largest city

and an area that Israel has defined as a humanitarian zone for displaced Ghazans.

Nick Schifrin reports.

In Gaza today, the story so often is death.

And now death stalks those who tell the story.

For a moment today, the storytellers fell silent for Al Jazeera's Anas al-Sharif and

Mohamed Krakhaja mourned with the bulletproof vests that failed to protect.

There is a fierce pride and brotherhood among Gaza's journalists.

And today they prayed over the body of a man they considered a mentor who shared their

story.

Al Sharif was a well-known correspondent who began reporting for Al Jazeera after the war began.

He, like everyone in Gaza, was suffering from a lack of food, and while describing a woman

who collapsed from hunger broke down during a live broadcast.

A missile fired by an Israeli drone killed him and four other journalists last night

in the tent where they were living, outside Shifa Hospital.

Journalist Mohamed Kita was 20 feet away and was injured in his lower back.

We did not only lose our colleague, Sharif, we lost the voice of journalism, the journalistic

icon for everyone, for all Palestinians.

Sharif was the voice of all of us.

But Israel argued Sharif and other members of Al Jazeera were also members of Hamas's military

wing and released what it described as translated Hamas salary documents and personnel

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