The Israeli army on Wednesday accused six Al Jazeera journalists covering the war in Gaza of also being current or former paid fighters for Palestinian militant groups. Al Jazeera rejected the claims.
Israel cited documents it purportedly found in Gaza, and other intelligence it gathered, in making the accusations against the journalists, all of whom are Palestinian men. It said four are or have been affiliated with Hamas, and two with Palestinian Islamic Jihad.
Al Jazeera said the accusations were “fabricated” and “part of a wider pattern of hostility” toward the pan-Arab network. It said the claims were “a blatant attempt to silence the few remaining journalists in the region, thereby obscuring the harsh realities of the war from audiences worldwide.”
The Associated Press has been unable to independently verify the authenticity of the documents Israel posted online to support its claims.
The Associated Press has been unable to independently verify the authenticity of the documents Israel posted online to support its claims.
No one ever will.
And I bet at least one of them had a Hamas command center hidden in his back pocket too!
Hamas Swiss Army Knife of Mass Destruction
I can confirm.
If the IDF said it, it is inherently false
Even if, and I say even if, these accusations are true: Gaza is supposedly not Israeli territory, so whether anyone is a former militant (meaning currently a noncombat) is none of their fucking business. Otherwise all but a small number of Israeli civilians would be valid military targets.
All the IDF reservists must be valid military targets then. And since almost everyone in Israel is required to serve in the IDF, including women, one could argue that there are barely any civilians in Israel nowadays. Imagine all the combatants working in hospitals, schools, universities, and so on. in Israel. Guess one can start bombing those facilities now without fearing they’ll ever harm civilians, right?
Like the other 170 journalists they’ve killed so far for casting light on the war crimes they’ve been committing. Being labelled a terrorist by Israel must be one of the highest titles one could earn in journalism nowadays.
What’s genuinely terrifying is that this is not an accusation that they can fight in court, it’s an administrative declaration of a death sentence. Israel has become Judge Dredd.
Zionists threaten to murder six more journalists after killing hundreds already
The non-propaganda version of this headline.
Hey, there could be Hamas tunnels under those journalists!
Think of all the red barrel rooms.
This been going on for a year, if you are in a country that support Israel defend itself, please take two minutes of your weekend to write a litter to your government representative and request a change of policy because, if these government are happy to not allow truth comes out for what they don’t like next time it will be your local community or country.
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Spoken like somebody who has never encountered violence before.
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I literally respond the same way to people that talk that way about isis. Get your finger outta yer ass. Read my comment history if you don’t believe me.
Not surprising at all. inb4 terrorists spin this as “they were just terrorist journalists”
Amazing how everyone Israel doesn’t like suddenly become terrorists.
The Committee to Protect Journalists released a statement on Wednesday that was critical of Israel, which it said “has repeatedly made similar unproven claims without producing credible evidence.”
In July, after an Israeli airstrike in Gaza City killed two Al Jazeera journalists, including Ismail Al Ghoul, Israel “produced a similar document, which contained contradictory information, showing that Al Ghoul, born in 1997, received a Hamas military ranking in 2007 – when he would have been 10 years old,” the committee said in its statement.
So Hamas is training child soldiers /s
Not sure what’s your point. Both Israel’s government and Al Jazeera can be evil. It’s not a zero-sum game.
One is facilitating a genocide, one is providing first-hand reporting of the genocide
you forgot the part where Al Jazeera is Qatar based organization with clear propaganda agenda. Do you trust Russia Today as well? I wouldn’t trust any organization based in Qatar knowing their track record of human rights abuses.
Do you trust the New York Times, Wapo, NPR, VOA, etc.?
Less and less each day
definitely more than a “press instution” based in the one of the most oppressive countries in the world. duh.
Can you point to the link which is evil?
How the fuck does that even work? Like what do you have against Al Jazeera?
it’s an untrustworhy news organization that at the very least fails to do an appropriate amount of background check and at most supports and promotes terrorism. Also it’s based in Qatar. Let that fucking sink in for a second.
So your bias is the reason you dislike their bias and you somehow think that makes it ok to paint them as terrorists and murder them? The actual fuck is wrong with you?
Aljazzera , showing IDF tiktok videos documenting their own war crimes, and, showing photos and videos live of, killing of women and children, is, by op amazing logic, is not trust worthy?
Yes, just because they do something right does not dismiss the low level premise that they are a state sponsored propaganda machine. Qatar has no laws to protect press from the government. There’s zero press freedom and Al Jazeera will do everything Qatar tells them to and can’t even talk about it. Isn’t that crazy?
This premise makes everything Al Jazeera does untrustworthy and needs to be verified by more trust worthy institutions.
I don’t get it how is it so hard to understand that? That’s the most basic of concepts and the irony that people defend this on a decentralized network is just incredibly poetic if not sad.
Not my biases but common sense
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Common sense is implicit bias dude.
Lmao go back to Reddit
Same, am not surprise that IDF will call anyone they killed a terrorist.
