IDF says Gaza documents prove 6 Al Jazeera journalists are Hamas, PIJ operatives

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Times Of Israel

Army shares personnel spreadsheets, lists of training courses and salary papers uncovered in Strip; Qatari network blasts ‘fabricated accusations’ against employees

Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

23 October 2024

Al Jazeera journalists named by the IDF as members of terror groups based on documentation found in Gaza, in an image released October 23, 2024. (IDF)

The IDF said Wednesday it had uncovered documents in the Gaza Strip that show six active Al Jazeera reporters are operatives in the Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad terror groups.

The journalists were named by the IDF as Anas al-Sharif, Alaa Salameh, Hossam Shabat, Ashraf al-Sarraj, Ismail Abu Omar and Talal al-Arrouqi.

According to the IDF, al-Sharif has served as head of a rocket launching squad and a member of a Nukhba Force company in Hamas’s Nuseirat Battalion; Salameh as the deputy head of the Shaboura Battalion’s propaganda unit in Islamic Jihad; Shabat as a sniper in Hamas’s Beit Hanoun Battalion; al-Sarraj as a member of Islamic Jihad’s Bureij Battalion; Abu Omar as a training company commander in the East Khan Younis Battalion (and was wounded in an Israeli airstrike several months ago); and al-Arrouqi as a team commander in Hamas’s Nuseirat Battalion.

The military released the documents it said showed personnel spreadsheets, lists of training courses, telephone books and salary documents.

It said the documents “unequivocally prove” that the journalists functioned as members of Hamas and Islamic Jihad’s respective military wings.

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IDF claims 6 Al Jazeera journalists are members of terror groups, network responds to 'fabricated accusations'
Israeli military says documents found in Gaza, but Al Jazeera official says allegations 'baseless'
Benjamin Weinthal Fox News
October 23, 2024

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A statement released by Al Jazeera Media Network on Wednesday called the allegations "unfounded," saying it "views these fabricated accusations as a blatant attempt to silence the few remaining journalists in the region, thereby obscuring the harsh realities of the war from audiences worldwide."

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The Jerusalem bureau chief of the now-closed Al Jazeera office, Walid Omary, flatly denied the IDF allegations about the Al Jazeera reporters to Fox News Digital.

"These are baseless allegations from the Israeli forces. While Al Jazeera confirms that the below-mentioned journalists are employed by the network, we categorically reject these allegations and the portrayal of our journalists as terrorists. They are simply performing their professional duties, documenting, and reporting on the horrendous realities of the war and its impact on the 2 million civilians. The current accusations follow Al Jazeera’s exposé of potential war crimes committed by the Israeli forces during war on Gaza."

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From The Comments

sevano520

20 hours ago

Instead of doing an investigation of the accusations and presenting their findings, Al Jazeera immediately issues denial and goes into a defensive mode. We understand that. We have democrats in the United States.