Six Al Jazeera reporters covering the conflict in Gaza were charged by the Israeli infantry on Wednesday of also being current or former paid soldiers for Palestinian militant groups. Al Jazeera rejected the states. Israel cited files it allegedly found in Gaza and other sources of intellect when making the accusations against the reporters, who are all Arab men. Four people are or have links to Hamas, according to the statement, and two to Palestinian Islamic Jihad.
Al Jazeera said the charges were “fabricated” and “part of a wider pattern of animosity” toward the pan-Arab system. The allegations were described as” a blatant attempt to silence the few remaining journalists in the region, obscuring viewership of the harsh realities of the war.”
The AP was unable to independently confirm the veracity of the papers Israel posted online to back up its claims.
Al Jazeera is based in the energy-rich state of Qatar, where some senior Hamas leaders are based. The Gulf Arab nation, which funds Al Jazeera, also has been a key person in Gaza cease-fire agreements, along with the US and Egypt.
Al Jazeera editors Anas al-Sharif, Hossam Shabat, Ismael Abu Omar, and Talal Arrouki were accused by Israel of relations to Hamas. Alaa Salameh and Ashraf Saraj were charged with having ties to Muslim Jihad.
The males have held different roles, according to documents Israel cited– rifle, army man, warrior, captain, training consultant and “propaganda”.
On Wednesday, the Committee to Protect Journalists released a statement criticizing Israel, claiming that it has “repeatedly made similar unsubstantiated statements without producing reliable information.”
In July, after an Jewish strike in Gaza City killed two Al Jazeera journalists, including Ismail Al Ghoul, the committee noted that Israel “produced a similar report, which contained conflicting data, showing that Al Ghoul, born in 1997, received a Hamas defense position in 2007- when he would have been 10 years old”.
Extremists from Hamas and Islamic Jihad led next year’s assault on Israel that killed some 1, 200 people, mostly civilians, and took some 250 victims into Gaza. For the past month, they have engaged in combative fighting alongside Israeli forces in Gaza.
Israel made allegations in January that 12 UN staff were involved in the Hamas assault on Israel last year, which allegedly sparked the conflict in Gaza. The U. N. company for Palestinian refugees, or UNRWA, eventually fired at least 21 employees for their jobs in the assault. During the battle, UNRWA provided the majority of Gaza’s citizens with food, water, and shelter.
According to the community, four Al Jazeera reporters have been killed by Israeli airstrikes in Gaza over the past year. Israel after accused several of the dead of being people of either Hamas or Islamic Jihad, complaints that the Qatari shop refrained from making.
Police raided a hotel room in East Jerusalem in May after an Jewish court ordered the end of Al Jazeera’s activities and broadcast there. The system had been broadcasting live pictures from there.
For the first time in history, Israel shut down a foreign media outlet. Four months later, Israel raided Al Jazeera’s business in the Palestinian-governed West Bank town of Ramallah, shutting down the commission it.
Several of those named by Israel on Wednesday, including al-Sharif, have become core images of the site’s 24-hour life policy of Gaza. Palestinians and another Middle Eastern nations have come to know them for their celebrity position.
One of the few media outlets also broadcasting daily from the besieged area is Al Jazeera.
The documents and intellect Israel unveiled Wednesday apparently show the rank, position, recruitment time, and battalion of each of the six Al-Jazeera journalists.
At least 128 journalists have been killed in Gaza, the West Bank, Israel, and Lebanon since last October, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists, an international media watchdog. They include 123 Palestinians, two Israelis and three Lebanese.
The local health ministry, which does not distinguish between civilians and militants but claims that more than half of the dead are women and children, claims that Israel has killed more than 42, 000 Palestinians in Gaza since the conflict started.
Al-Jazeera and Israel had high tensions before the war. Israeli forces shot and killed Shireen Abu Akleh, a Palestinian-American journalist, in May 2022 as she reported on a story in the West Bank.
Israel is n’t the only critic of Al Jazeera. The broadcaster received praise from the US for airing videos of late al-Qaida chief Osama bin Laden, who was responsible for the September 11, 2001 attack against the US, after its invasion of Iraq in 2003 toppled dictator Saddam Hussein.
Other Middle Eastern governments have closed or blocked Al Jazeera. Egyptian authorities raided a posh hotel used by Al Jazeera in 2013 to halt widespread protests against President Mohammed Morsi.
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