The Hamas-Linked Gazan ‘Journalists’ Whom the Mainstream Media Still Employ

Many of the Palestinians reporting from Gaza for such mainstream media as CBS News, Reuters, AP, AFP, the New York Times, and the Wall Street Journal have been exposed by Honest Reporting as having lavished praise on Hamas on social media, posted antisemitic and terror-supporting comments online, and revealed themselves to be admirers, friends, and accomplices of Hamas members. Indeed, some of those “journalists” even accompanied Hamas members on their murderous raid into Israel on October 7, 2023. More on the scandal of major media outlets continuing to use the services of these admirers and camp-followers of Hamas can be found here: “Call Out Complicity: Why Have Media Failed to Take Action Over Critically Compromised Journalists?,” HonestReporting, November 24, 2024:

If we’ve learned anything about the reporting from inside Gaza in the past year, it’s that there is virtually no such thing as professional journalism inside the Strip. On multiple occasions, HonestReporting has exposed Gazan journalists who have disqualified themselves from claiming to be reporting objectively. Some have publicly expressed their antisemitism or blatant anti-Israel bias. Others have been revealed to be active supporters of terror or friends of Hamas.

Media outlets have taken action against several of these exposed journalists and their bylines can no longer be found on mainstream media reports from Gaza. But others have continued to report as media outlets prefer to sweep the issue under the carpet hoping that the problem will simply disappear.

Newsflash: It won’t.

It’s not enough to expose the biased, antisemitic, or terror-supporting journalists. It’s time to expose the six media outlets whose silence has protected 20 biased journalists.

HonestReporting is launching a social media campaign to hold these outlets accountable. We demand they stop letting these “journalists” report on Israel-related issues.

Reuters

The agency still employs eight journalists exposed for infiltrating Israel, expressing biased views, or having unethical ties with Hamas:

• Yasser Qudih: Infiltrated Israel on October 7 and was honored by Hamas. He also won the 2024 Pulitzer prize with Reuters photography staff.
• Doaa Rouqa and Hamuda Hassan: No action taken after they celebrated images of October 7 atrocities.
• Iraq Bureau Chief Timour Azhari: Covers the Israel-Hezbollah conflict, yet demonizes Israel online.
• Suhaib Jadallah Salem, Mohammed Jadallah Salem, Fadi Shanaa, and Ibraheem Abu Mustafa: All received awards from Hamas. But the agency had no problem with this…

The Associated Press

The wire service still employs seven journalists who either infiltrated Israel or collaborated with terror groups:

• The agency hasn’t taken action against Hatem Ali and Ali Mahmud, who were in exactly the right place on October 7 to capture images of Israelis kidnapped to Gaza…
• Adel Hana, Hatem Moussa, Fatima Shbair, and Khalil Hamra: All participated in official Hamas propaganda events, yet were and are defended by AP. Adel Hana also taught media courses for the Hamas-run Information Office.
• Mohammed Zanaty: A Lebanese cameraman who supported an ally of Hezbollah online, yet AP kept silent on the matter….

In other words, the photojournalists Hatem Ali and Ali Mahmud were right there with Hamas killers inside Israel on October 7, accompanying their friends and acquaintances in the terror group, taking pictures of the Israelis flung on the back of flatbed trucks or over the handlebars of motorcycles, being taken back to Gaza. It is not unlikely that some of the journalists who “infiltrated” Israel — that is, entered Israel with members of Hamas on October 7—took part in the atrocities.

These journalists who took part in Hamas propaganda events are still reporting for the AP. What would it take for the AP to finally agree with HonestReporting that their links to Hamas rendered them unfit to report on the IDF’s campaign in Gaza?

How You Can Help

Take action now. Demand accountability from Reuters, AP, AFP, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and CBS News: These journalists must no longer be allowed to report on Israel for any respectable publication.

Go to our dedicated Call Out Complicity page where you can sign the petition, send emails to editors and post our campaign content to social media.

Will these demands sent to these six media giants finally be enough to convince them to discharge the journalists they have relied on for stories from Gaza — journalists who have strong ties to Hamas, including, for some, possible participation in the atrocities carried out by the terror group on October 7, 2023? Others have received grateful recognition from Hamas, made propaganda films for Hamas, spoken at meetings of Hamas and another terror group, the PFLP. If this latest cry de profundis from HonestReporting — with the names of the offending journalists, and links to their Hamas connections spelled out — does not move them, nothing will. Let us hope that some of those media giants will at long last fulfill their responsibility to provide unbiased reports, rather than continue to rely on texts that those “journalists” provide, that are little more than handouts supplied by Hamas, Get rid of all those “journalists” listed above and in the full HonestReporting report. And do it, please, PDQ.