The Qatar based propaganda news outlet Al Jazeera is in the news again. This time, it is Israel which said that six journalists working for the Al Jazeera are members of terror group Hamas and the Palestine Islamic Jihad.
According to the Israeli Defence Force (IDF), the Intelligence it gathered and the numerous documents found in Gaza confirmed that these journalists have military affiliation with the terror groups.
The IDF said that the information it has includes list of terrorist training courses, phone directories and salary documents for terrorists. Taking to X, the IDF said, “These documents serve as proof of the integration of Hamas terrorists within the Qatari Al Jazeera media network.”
“The IDF has disclosed intelligence information and numerous documents found in Gaza confirming military affiliation of six Al Jazeera journalists in Gaza with Hamas and the Islamic Jihad terrorist organizations, including personnel tables, lists of terrorist training courses, phone directories, and salary documents for terrorists,” the IDF also said.
EXPOSED: 6 Al Jazeera journalists have been exposed as Hamas and Islamic Jihad terrorists.
The IDF has disclosed intelligence information and numerous documents found in Gaza confirming military affiliation of six Al Jazeera journalists in Gaza with Hamas and the Islamic Jihad… pic.twitter.com/quVmr2zE8B
— Israel Defense Forces (@IDF) October 23, 2024
It also said that most of the journalists that the IDF has exposed as operatives in Hamas military wing spearheaded the propaganda for Hamas at Al Jazeera especially in northern Gaza.
The six journalists have been identified as Anas Jamal Mahmoud Al-Sharif, Alaa Abdul Aziz Muhammad Salama, Hossam Basel Abdul Karim Shabat, Ashraf Sami Ahsour Saraj, Ismail Farid Muhammad Abu Amr, and Talal Mahmoud Abdul Rahman Aruki.
The IDF noted that Ismail Abu Air was injured in an Israeli operation in Gaza on February this year. Al Jazeera had at that time denied the allegations.
In May this year, Israel had ordered shutting down of operations of Al Jazeera channel in Israel over its pro-Hamas coverage and propaganda. Following that, in September, the Israeli government had also closed the Al Jazeera bureau in Ramallah in West Bank.
Following this Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in a tweet, “Al Jazeera’s journalists have harmed Israeli security and incited against IDF soldiers. The time has come to eject Hamas’s mouthpiece from our country. The government headed by me unanimously decided: the incitement channel Al Jazeera will be closed in Israel.”
In all four orders had been issued to implement the ban. The orders said that megaphones for Hamas would not have freedom of expression in Israel. The first order directed the shutting down of the Al Jazeera offices in West and East Jerusalem. Another order instructed the television providers to stop broadcasting the channel. In the third order the government instructed that the channel’s broadcast equipment including cell phones, except those for personal use be confiscated.
The fourth order instructed television, cell phone and Internet providers to block access to Al Jazeera’s English and Arabic language networks.
