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Israel Accuses Al Jazeera Journalist of Being Hamas Operative

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The Israeli Defense Forces on Sunday accused a prominent journalist– who in recent months has reported regularly for Al Jazeera from Gaza – of moonlighting as a senior Hamas commander.

The Israeli Defense Forces have published photos they say were discovered on a laptop in Gaza that show Al Jazeera journalist Mohamed Washah engaged in Hamas terrorist activities.

Neither Al Jazeera nor the Qatari government have responded to the Sun’s request for comment.

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Everyone is a Hamas operative. Journalists, babies... hell, I live in Indiana and I'm probably a Hamas operative.
- Everyone is a Hamas operative.
  We're also Russian operatives when we criticize the Democrats.
  
  Because everything is about American politics, especially what happens when Israel accuses an Al Jazeera journalist of being a Hamas operative. That's 100% about America.
- Now the IDF is going to target Indiana...
- Hamas war strategy is to disguise themselves as civilians, impartial personnel, doctors, etc. and blend in these civilian areas.
  So statistically, yes, you can probably be a Hamas operative. In your case, I hope, is a low chance.
  
  Yep. I'm one of those American Jews who secretly works for Hamas. How did you find out?
  
  So you're saying you know someone is Hamas because they don't seem like Hamas?
  This feels like good ol' fashioned paranoia
- I asked Hamas and they confirmed, nobody is a Hamas operative.
  
  Do you think it may possibly be true that some people are Hamas operatives, but not every single person that Israel claims is a Hamas operative is actually a Hamas operative?
- If the UNRWA story is anything to go by, they don't even bother with the evidence part.
- If you're not with us ... you're against us
  This is how to describe our current period in history
- No, they "found" a laptop. If I were guessing, if it exists at all, it was planted by the IDF or Mossad. More likely, the Israeli government are lying through their teeth.
  
  Conservatives will only see articles critical of conservatives as being evidence that the author is their enemy. The author's laptop would be used in this way.
  A conservative is incapable of honesty. Every word uttered by a conservative is either deception or manipulation. Every word. When a conservative accuses a journalist of a crime, they are lying. Every time.
Are they accusing a journalist of being in HAMAS before killing them? That's new.
- I assume the fact that he was a Hamas militant was a secret intelligent peace of information.
Israel uses the same techniques as Russia. Behind every attack killing loads of civilians was a valuable target. Behind every person critical of them is some super top secret agent.
Same shit, different day in the States:
In November 2023, the Anti-Defamation League classified protest events led by groups including Jewish Voice for Peace and IfNotNow as "anti-Israel", adding the protests to a database documenting rising antisemitism in the US. ADL CEO Jonathan Greenblatt labelled the organizations "hate groups".
source
So the Anti-Defamation League defames U.S.-based Jewish peace organizations. Let that sink in for a moment.
- That's because the ADL has not been a group against antisemitism for a very long time now. They are now a group against anti-Israeli sentiment.
  Sort of like how the NRA was originally a gun safety and advocacy organization and it is now a branch of the Republican Party.
  The ADL was a very good organization once. But not in quite some time.
  
  The NRA is Slowly Dying
  Perhaps the ADL can follow in their footsteps.
The articles produced by the IDF do not withstand scrutiny as they are. That is before they tick the bingo box checklist stock phrases including allegations about Arab forces, jihad, enemy fighters hiding behind civilians, etc.
- I don't agree in this case.
Killing journalists is only self defense if you've got war crimes to hide, and Israel's main purpose is to obfuscate war crimes.
- Hamas militants disguising themselves as impartial journalists IS a war crime, and put all impartial individuals in danger.
  
  Still not as bad as what Israel has done
Israel accuses yet another All Jazeera Journalist of being Hamas Operative
- What an unfortunate reality. Hamas has no limits.
Looks like the Israeli government tries to diversify from calling each and every (valid) critic "antisemite". Now they call people they don't like "Hamas operatives".
Update: Israel just bombed this journalist and his cameraman while they were reporting in Rafah-North
https://lemmy.world/post/11909052
- He's a Hamas militant
  
  You got proof? Or is it just because you want it to be true?
Turns out everyone who isn’t an Israeli citizen is Hamas. Fuck Israel.
- IDF is a terrorist organization
- Not true. Oh and reported.
If you haven't been accused by Israel of being a Hamas operative, do you even have a life?
- It's not an accusation, it's a fact based on concrete evidences.
  IDF goal is to take down Hamas, hence kill or capture its militants.
  
  IDF goal is to ensure white supremacy using a faulty religious account of a kingdom that fell over 2500 years ago. Absolutely ludicrous.
- Hard to admit the sad truth.
Of course they fucking do.
- I mean I think Israel is a terrorist state, but this is pretty damning. Doesn't give them the right to take over land that isn't theirs of course.
  
  Here it comes to the "land" argument again.
  That's the true face of the Palestinians.
  The Palestinia Arabs opened an existence war against Israel in it's independence day, they lost, BIG TIME, then they blame Israel for winning, for 75 years now.
  This is why there will never be piece. This is why Israel has no other option than to use force. This is why there are so many casualties. The ridiculous land.
I mean, they released the evidence. It's pretty impossible to deny he's a terrorist unless you're sticking your head in the sand.
- What evidence, a few pictures they claim are from 2022 that might just as well be the Journalist reporting on subjects in Gaza or even be literal deepfakes?
  The IDF has edited and falsified picture evidence multiple times in the past, a notable case being with Shireen Abu Akleh, the American Journalist the IDF killed in 2022.
  ” Then-Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett and the Israeli military blamed Abu Akleh’s death on Palestinians, distributing unrelated video of Palestinian gunfire during the invasion as supposed proof. However, multiple independent investigations, including by The Washington Post, The New York Times, The Associated Press, and CNN, as well as by human rights groups like Amnesty International, and the UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, all concluded that Abu Akleh was killed by an Israeli soldier. The Israeli military itself later backtracked, stating that Abu Akleh may have been killed by one of its soldiers.
  
  False unless there will be a proof for this case.
- define terrorist
- I agree, using journalists as war militants is a war crime that I don't think have never happen.
- they did? so we have full footage of the laptop being found and verifiable chain of custody?
They found a literal photo of the guy loading a shell.
- In order to know that, we would need to verify the following:
  The photo is real and not a fake or AI generated one.
  The man in the photo is the journalist and not someone else.
  The context of the photo. What is he actually doing? Just because someone is holding what appears to be a munition doesn’t mean they are Hamas. He could be inspecting it as part of his role in being a journalist.
  
  You would need to verify or the IDF and Israeli intelligence would need to verify?
  You can look at the photo yourself and see it's the same guy and what he's holding. There are like 16 total photos. It's clearly the same guy. So, we can dispense with your wild conspiracy theories.
  Can you think of another reason he's holding an Iranian made rocket? Can you think of another reason he's photographed on different days and times with uniformed members of Hamas while holding weapons used by Hamas and wearing fatigues?
  If he was on assignment writing about Hamas and posing for photos, where is the story with the photos?
  
  IIDF literally raided Hammas server farm which was in a tunnel directly under Unrwa command center with all the electricity and optical cables coming from Unrwa itself. Thats probably gonna produce terabytes of intelligence for the next few years.
  
  Guy above me is already tagged as zionist in my app, so don't even bother.
  That said, we're definitely gonna need context because the pics alone don't look great. Plus since when does Israel accuse someone of being hamas before killing them?
  
  Because loading shells, operating terror equipment and commanding soldiers how to shoot RPG is part of casual journalism.
  Right?

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