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The Israel Defense Forces on Sunday accused the Qatari regime-owned Al Jazeera information group of using a Hamas terrorist whose household held three of the hostages freed in Saturday’s IDF raid.
The IDF killed the alleged Al Jazeera reporter Abdallah Aljamal throughout its dramatic rescue mission in Nuseirat within the Gaza Strip.
The IDF wrote on X, formerly known as Twitter, “‘Journalist’ Abdallah Aljamal was a Hamas terrorist holding Almog, Andrey and Shlomi hostage in his household’s dwelling in Nuseirat. No press vest could make him harmless of the crimes he has dedicated. @AlJazeera what’s this terrorist doing in your web site?”
Al Jazeera listed Aljamal as an creator on its web site, and he reportedly wrote a minimum of one article for the Doha-based community.
However the Jerusalem bureau chief of the now-closed Al Jazeera workplace, Omar al-Walid, denied that Aljamal labored for Al Jazeera, in line with the Instances of Israel.
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“This man just isn’t from Al Jazeera, and he didn’t work for Al Jazeera in any respect, and he’s not listed as working for Al Jazeera neither now nor previously,” al-Walid stated, including, “We have no idea him, and all of the rumors which were unfold are empty of content material and never true in any respect.”
Al-Walid stated Al Jazeera plans to sue anybody disseminating claims that Abdallah Aljamal is linked to the outlet.
The IDF has accused the Al Jazeera information group of using a Hamas terrorist. (Ramsey Cardy/Sportsfile for Net Summit Qatar by way of Getty Photos/File)
Imran Khan, a senior correspondent on Al Jazeera’s English channel, wrote on Instagram that Aljamal was a freelancer previously.
“The person in query who was killed within the raid alongside along with his household was, at one level, a contract journalist,” Khan wrote. “He has by no means labored for Al Jazeera Arabic or English.”
Aljamal did report for the Palestine Chronicle, which on Sunday wrote that it “is saddened to be taught that Abdallah Aljamal, one in every of its contributors within the Gaza Strip, has been killed within the newest Israeli bloodbath within the Nuseirat refugee camp.”
In response to a Fox Information Digital question, the Palestinian Chronicle replied with the assertion and an article about Aljamal’s dying.
“Significantly tragic is that Aljamal’s final contribution to the Palestine Chronicle lined a earlier bloodbath, which killed over 40 Palestinian civilians in an UNRWA college within the refugee camp,” the article reads. “Israeli media is linking Aljamal’s household to the Israeli captives, claiming that Abdallah’s father, Dr. Ahmed, and different family members, have been executed within the strategy of the bloody rescue mission.”
“These claims have been refuted by revered commentators and journalists on-line, who pointed [out] the inconsistencies within the official Israeli narrative.”
The Palestine Chronicle is a registered U.S. nonprofit group with a submit workplace field listed in Mountlake Terrace, Washington.
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Al Jazeera reporters have been embroiled in supporting terrorism through the years, in line with an in depth May updated report printed by the Washington, D.C.-based Center East Media Analysis Institute (MEMRI) titled “Al-Jazeera Arabic: The Qatari-owned TV channel that promotes Islamist terrorism worldwide.”
Yigal Carmon, the president and founding father of MEMRI, listed examples of Al Jazeera reporters who allegedly aided Hamas within the Oct. 7 bloodbath in Israel: “Some Al-Jazeera journalists have not too long ago been ‘outed’ as Hamas and PIJ fighters. A Palestinian journalist working for Al-Jazeera, Muhammad Wishah, seems to have additionally been a commander within the navy wing of Hamas, in line with paperwork on a laptop computer discovered by the Israeli military in a Hamas base in northern Gaza.”
IDF forces are seen working in Rafah, a metropolis within the Gaza Strip. (IDF Spokesman’s Workplace)
Carmon famous that “One other Al-Jazeera correspondent, Ismail Abu Omar, who participated within the October 7 assault, documenting it from inside the Gaza Envelope, was airlifted to Doha for medical remedy on February 19 after having been wounded in an Israeli airstrike in Rafah every week earlier. He has been recognized as a Hamas platoon deputy commander.”
In keeping with the MEMRI report, “Al-Jazeera employed a correspondent, Tayseer Allouni, who was sentenced in Spain to seven years in jail for transferring funds to Al-Qaeda – and Al-Qaeda even issued a public assertion in his assist. Al-Jazeera broadcast dwell the killing of a U.S. soldier by an Iraqi sniper – which may solely have occurred if the media community had coordinated with the perpetrators of the killing.”
Fox Information Digital approached Qatar’s ambassador to the U.S., Sheikh Meshal bin Hamad Al Thani, Al Jazeera and the Qatari embassy in London for a remark in regards to the MEMRI report.
Hamas massacred practically 1,200 individuals on Oct. 7 in southern Israel, together with greater than 30 Individuals. The Sunni terrorist group Hamas is presently holding greater than 121 hostages in Gaza.
Aljamal’s spouse was killed throughout the IDF rescue operation.
A Palestinian fighter from the armed wing of Hamas takes half in a navy parade to mark the anniversary of the 2014 conflict with Israel, close to the border within the central Gaza Strip, on July 19, 2023. (Reuters/Ibraheem Abu Mustafa/File)
Final week, a Tel Aviv-Jaffa District Court docket decided that there’s a “shut connection” between Al Jazeera and Hamas. The courtroom’s deputy president, Shai Yaniv, stated that primarily based on a evaluation of categorized paperwork, “The image that emerges from the paperwork demonstrates categorically [and] with convincing, clear and unambiguous proof the shut, long-term connection between the Hamas terror group and the Al Jazeera media community, with the Hamas terror group advancing its targets by the channel.”
Israeli navy specialists instructed Fox Information Digital that Al Jazeera makes use of its reporters to trace Israeli navy actions after which delivers the data to Hamas. Yaniv stated the proof exhibits that Al Jazeera had harmed Israel’s nationwide safety.
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Israel’s former prime minister, Naftali Bennett, wrote on X, “Abdallah Aljamal is an Al-Jazeera reporter and a Hamas terrorist who held three Israeli civilians hostage in his dwelling. This has now been confirmed. Sadly, many Gaza civilians have been taking an energetic position in terror. Hundreds that participated within the October seventh massacres and rapes, and lots of of hundreds that present their properties to Hamas as terror bases, ammunition storage and as a jail for Israeli hostages.”
He added, “This isn’t a bug; it’s a characteristic. Hamas’ core technique is that this use of civilians as weapons, and it’s what grows the variety of casualties in Gaza. If Hamas is decided to kill Gazans, no person can cease them. Solely Hamas’ defeat.”
