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.
Everyone is a Hamas operative. Journalists, babies... hell, I live in Indiana and I'm probably a Hamas operative.
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?
How sarcastic
Yeah, weird that I would have a sarcastic response to someone who said there's a chance I'm a member of Hamas. 🙄
Statistically, it's possible.
Again, statistically.
Statistically it's possible that you're a white nationalist.
And if you wouldn't have a sarcastic response when someone told you that, I'd find you quite suspicious.
no u
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?
For sure, and Israel admits that, too. It's Hamas that lies about every single attack on its members.
Really? Every single attack? So Israel hasn't attacked any Hamas fighters? Wow, they really suck at this. No wonder they've killed over 10,000 children.
What? You misunderstood. No, Israel has killed thousands of Hamas members. According to Hamas though, the number of its dead soldiers is like three. I think they admitted one early airstrike, I think also on Rafah, killed a commander. So I assume there are probably a couple of others times they've admitted to their casualties. Every other time they say it was only civilians, no fighters killed. They are lying, and for that reason I find Israel has more credibility than the terrorists.
IDF is a terrorist organization.
Says you? Do any credible multilateral bodies of nations join you in that assessment?
Says pretty much anyone who doesn’t have their head up their ass supporting genocide.
If you support IDF you are trash.
And if you are looking for sources, check out Netanyahu on the god damn nightly news.
So no, just you and other internet edgelords that think they have inside information?
The absence of credible multilateral bodies of nations to join them in that assessment is the same as the presence of credible multilateral bodies of nations to join them in that assessment.
There aren't credible multilateral bodies that classify the IDF as a terrorist organization.
The absence of such is evidence that they are not, otherwise, some body with authority on the matter would say so.
The lack of an authority saying so is the same as an authority saying so.
You've taught me that the lack of something is the same as the presence of something, remember?
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Please show the source of this claim.
So, please prove a negative? No.
You can just read news articles that quote Hamas leaders anytime there is an airstrike and next time you see it maybe you'll spot it now that you know what to look for.
What negative? This was your claim:
Please show the source for this claim.
"Just read news articles" is not a source.
The claim is "Hamas doesn't admit when its soldiers are killed because that would defeat their martyrdom and human shield strategy to gain western sympathy."
It's a negative.
That is a lie. I pasted your claim. I will paste it again:
If you can't back up this claim, fine. I guess it also a lie.
Dated 12/15 from Reuters: Hamas has not said how many of its fighters have been killed. Israel's military has said it has killed at least 7,000.
No that's my inference based on the lack of evidence.
The claim and the evidence is that Hamas hardly ever admits to casualties.
The evidence that Hamas doesn't distinguish it's fighters is the lack of evidence of Hamas admitting to its fighters being killed. I can't prove a lack of something that doesn't exist.
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.
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.
This came out 4 hours ago.
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 think you're a little confused about who violently took land from whom
thank you
Even declassified Israeli documents disagree with that Statement. Transfer has been the intent from the start. Hamas wouldn't exist if there was no occupation
British Mandate Period:
The Concept of Transfer 1882-1948
Palestinian Arab Congress advocating for Unified State 1928
1929 Riots from Forward and 972Mag
Shaw Commission
Peel Commission Report and Memorandum of the Arab Higher Committee 1937
1936-1939 Revolt from JVL, Britannica, MEE
Irgun and Lehi activity
What Hitler and the Grand Mufti Really Said: Time, Haaretz, WaPo
1948 to 1967:
Plan Dalet and Declassified Massacres
Additional context of what was detailed in Plan C (May 1946) and Plan D (March 1948)
Arab League advocating for unified state 1948
1967 war Declassified
Israel Martial Law and Defence (Emergency) Regulations practiced in the occupied territories after 1967
How the US became the ally of Israel
UK influence
Occupation:
Occupation and 50 years of dispossession
1st Intifada AJ, PBS, Haaretz
2nd Intifada AJ, Haaretz
Gaza Blockade is Occupation
Arab Israelis are not equal including Education (2001 report)
Palestinian Prisoners in Israel and Military Court
Child abuse of Palestinian prisoners
Apartheid
Human Shields including Children (2013 Report)
Settler Violence, Torture and Abuse in Interrogations, No freedom of movement, and also Water control
Gaza March for Return Protest
Palestinians lack civil rights
Hamas founding charter and Revised charter 2017
History of Hamas supported by Netanyahu since 2012
AWRAD Gaza War Poll
PCPSR Public Opinion Poll Dec 2023
History of peace process
One State Solution, Foreign Affairs archived here
10 Myths of Israel
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.
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:
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?
IDF had intelligence information about him before
I take the IDF's word like I take Russia's word. So you can see my struggle here.
Because loading shells, operating terror equipment and commanding soldiers how to shoot RPG is part of casual journalism.
Right?