The mainstream media’s coverage of the war in Gaza is scandalous. The casualty figures put out by ventriloquent Hamas, using the “Gaza Ministry of Health” as its puppet, are uncritically accepted. So are reports claiming, without any evidence, that “70% of those killed in Gaza are women and children.” And so, too, are the claims about the IDF deliberately killing two classes of people — medical personnel and journalists. There are many doctors in Gaza who have turned out to be members or supporters of Hamas, such as the director of Al-Shifa Hospital, Dr. Mohammad Abu Salmiya, who allowed Hamas to set up a command-and-control center inside the hospital he directed, and where the IDF later killed at least 200 Hamas members. Another 900 Gazans on the premises were arrested, of whom more than 500 were, subsequently found to be affiliated with Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad.
Earlier, the IDF said “forces found large quantities of weapons, intelligence documents throughout the hospital, encountered terrorists in close-quarters battles and engaged in combat while avoiding harm to the medical staff and patients.” But even more frequent than the charge that the IDF deliberately targets medical personnel is the accusation that the IDF “deliberately kills journalists.” Ira Stoll considers the latest examples of this charge here: “New York Times Conceals Hamas Role of ‘Journalist’ It Accuses Israel of Killing,” by Ira Stoll, Algemeiner, March 28, 2025:
The claim that Israel is “killing journalists” has become a staple of newspaper opinion pages, campus protests, and claims by advocacy groups.
For example, on March 24, 2025, a group called the Committee to Protect Journalists — whose board of directors includes Lydia Polgreen, Diane Brayton, and Geraldine Fabrikant Mertz of the New York Times — issued a statement headlined, “CPJ denounces Israel’s killing of 2 more Gaza journalists in return to war.”
“CPJ is appalled that we are once again seeing Palestinians weeping over the bodies of dead journalists in Gaza,” said CPJ’s Program Director Carlos Martinez de la Serna in New York. “This nightmare in Gaza has to end. The international community must act fast to ensure that journalists are kept safe and hold Israel to account for the deaths of Hossam Shabat and Mohammed Mansour, whose killings may have been targeted. Journalists are civilians and it is illegal to attack them in a war zone.”
Their killings “may have been targeted”? If Carlos de la Serna of CPJ is unable to state with assurance that these “journalists” were “deliberately” targeted, it is outrageous to make that claim, which leaves the distinct impression that the killings of those “journalists” were indeed “targeted.”
The New York Times news coverage was basically indistinguishable from the Committee to Protect Journalists’ press release. A Times news article credited to Hiba Yazbek and Bilal Shbair, with reporting contributed from Istanbul by Iyad Abuheweila, says, “On Monday, Al Jazeera reported that Hussam Shabat, a journalist who contributed to its coverage of the war, was killed in an Israeli airstrike on his car in northern Gaza. At least 208 journalists have been killed in Gaza since the start of the war, according to the Gaza government press office.”
The Times dispatch goes on: “Videos circulating online and verified by the New York Times show the apparently lifeless bodies of Mr. Shabat and two other men, as well as a donkey that had been pulling a cart, on a dusty road in Beit Lahia, in northern Gaza. Next to them is a car pocked with what appear to be bullet or shrapnel holes, with an Al Jazeera emblem and the letters ‘TV’ on the windshield. A man shouts Mr. Shabat’s name and shakes his body, trying to get a response, while others carry away a person whose condition is unclear.”…
Note the details carefully chosen to tug at the readers’ heartstrings — those “lifeless bodies,” that humble donkey puling a cart “on a dusty road,” and an insistence that these three men whom the IDF killed were journalists because they had been riding in a car, now riddled with bullet holes, that bore the Al Jazeera emblem and the letters “TV” on its windshield. But, of course, it is possible to work as a “journalist” and simultaneously be a terrorist trained to be a a sniper as a member of Hamas.
Taffy says
Maybe the true journalists should stay away from the reach of the IDF in the Gazan war zones.
Cynthia says
All the “journalists” in Gaza, especially from Al Jezeerah, BBC, CNN are Hamas operatives. The world is being fed propaganda.
Thinker1 says
Good. Fewer of both seems right.
Tim gallagher says
Well done idf. They have a difficult task trying to fight an enemy that hides away in among the ordinary population and hence people see kids being killed and wounded in the tv news reports and many people are outraged. Of course, all the Muslims would love to kill all the Jews so I have no sympathy for Palestinians. It is definitely a difficult war to fight for the idf. Go Israel, the only civilised country in that area of the world.
tgusa says
“Journalist Who Was Also a Hamas Sniper”
This is FAFO up close and in real life. The jihad media brought this on themselves and very few are weeping for them. Note to the jihad media, play like a jihadist, die like a jihadist. No one is above a bullet.
Billy says
Israel must defend itself against Islam’s Muslims and their terrorism, discrimination, and violence as taught in Islam’s Quran(Quran 9:5,29,111 and more).
Islam, a Terrorist-Criminal Enterprise, and its predatory believers continually fund, promote, and practice ideological subversion, propaganda, bigotry, discrimination, deceit, supremacy, segregation, hatred, violence, and terrorism as taught in Islamic Law and in Islam’s Quran, and Muslim actions should be legally challenged with a multi-faceted force of Western Laws like Muslims wield against Americans and Westerners(Quran 9:5,29; 49:15; 60:4 and more).
Like a Foreign Terrorist Organization(FTO) designated by the USA Secretary of State, Islam is a MUSLIM TERRORIST ORGANIZATION(MTO) fighting against Non-Muslims and NOT A PEACEFUL religion under Western Law because Islam funds, teaches, and promotes a Terrorist Criminal Organization with Muslims as Terrorists for Allah(Quran 9:5,29; 49:15 and more).
Under Islam and Islamic Law, Muslims have the Legal Right and the Quranic Duty to terrorize Non-Muslims because neglecting this QURANIC DUTY is a Crime against Allah. Jihad means warfare against Non-Muslims to ESTABLISH ISLAM’S RELIGION(Quran 3:151; 9:5,29,111; Muslim Law Manual: “Reliance of the Traveller”, o9.0 and more).
More specifically, Islam, a terroristic-destructive way of life, is a Muslim Terrorist Ideology and Murderous, Criminal Enterprise of intolerance, continuous war, discrimination, segregation, supremacy, genocide, polygamy, propaganda, deceit, hatred, incitement, sedition, rape, terrorism, and violence against all Non-Muslims as taught in the Quran(Quran 2:216; 4:65,89,95; 5:14,64; 8:12,39,74; 9:5,21,29,36, 41,49,73,88,111,123; 21:92; 49:15; 60:4 and more).
Billt says
The IDF is magnificent at fighting Islam’s Muslims. Islam, a Terrorist-Criminal Enterprise, and its predatory believers continually fund, promote, and practice ideological subversion, propaganda, bigotry, discrimination, deceit, supremacy, segregation, hatred, violence, and terrorism as taught in Islamic Law and in Islam’s Quran, and Muslim actions should be legally challenged with a multi-faceted force of Western Laws like Muslims wield against Americans and Westerners(Quran 9:5,29; 49:15; 60:4 and more).
Like a Foreign Terrorist Organization(FTO) designated by the USA Secretary of State, Islam is a MUSLIM TERRORIST ORGANIZATION(MTO) fighting against Non-Muslims and NOT A PEACEFUL religion under Western Law because Islam funds, teaches, and promotes a Terrorist Criminal Organization with Muslims as Terrorists for Allah(Quran 9:5,29; 49:15 and more).
Under Islam and Islamic Law, Muslims have the Legal Right and the Quranic Duty to terrorize Non-Muslims because neglecting this QURANIC DUTY is a Crime against Allah. Jihad means warfare against Non-Muslims to ESTABLISH ISLAM’S RELIGION(Quran 3:151; 9:5,29,111; Muslim Law Manual: “Reliance of the Traveller”, o9.0 and more).
More specifically, Islam, a terroristic-destructive way of life, is a Muslim Terrorist Ideology and Murderous, Criminal Enterprise of intolerance, continuous war, discrimination, segregation, supremacy, genocide, polygamy, propaganda, deceit, hatred, incitement, sedition, rape, terrorism, and violence against all Non-Muslims as taught in the Quran(Quran 2:216; 4:65,89,95; 5:14,64; 8:12,39,74; 9:5,21,29,36, 41,49,73,88,111,123; 21:92; 49:15; 60:4 and more).