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A good deal of what the world thinks it knows about the supposed “genocide” in Gaza is due to the efforts of Hussam Abu Safyia. In October 2023 and December 2024, Safyia penned two guest essays in the New York Times, giving agog Times readers the lurid, gritty details of what it was like to try to do the work of a physician while the rapacious Israeli war machine racked up ever more innocent victims.
The Times identified him as a pediatrician, director of Gaza’s Kamal Adwan Hospital, and MedGlobal’s lead physician in Gaza. There was just one little detail of Safyia’s resume that the Times didn’t bother to mention: Hussam Abu Safyia was a Hamas operative.
The New York Post reported Saturday that Safyia is “a colonel with terror group Hamas,” and was “photographed wearing a Hamas camo military uniform while at a gathering of Hamas elites to celebrate the completion of the Kamal Adwan Hospital in 2016, according to the Jerusalem-based watchdog NGO Monitor.” Also, Safyia’s “photo appeared on the Gaza Medical Services‘ Facebook page — a group overseen by the Hamas-run health ministry.”
Safyia himself didn’t see fit to disclose that he had anything to do with Hamas when the Times published his first op-ed, “I’m a Pediatrician in Gaza. Please Save Us From This Horror,” on Oct. 29, 2023, just three weeks after Hamas jihadis murdered 1,200 Israelis. Instead, he expatiated at length about the difficulties of working in a hospital in Gaza, working hard to give the impression that the Israelis were gratuitously bombing hospitals and other civilian facilities, apparently with no provocation (or, of course, justification) at all. He doesn’t, of course, say anything about how Hamas used hospitals as command-and-control centers so that any Israeli action against them could be portrayed as a gratuitous attack on civilians who were already suffering.
In his Dec. 2, 2024, piece, Safyia was more strident than he had been the year before, complaining that “we feel as if the rest of the world is wrapped up in a different world from the one we are in. We are suffering and paying the price of the genocide that is happening to our people here in the northern Gaza Strip.”
Yet as the Post noted, “neither Safyia nor the Times disclosed his alleged affiliation with the terror group, even though Palestinian media refers to him by his military rank. He is also referred to as a colonel in a 2020 Facebook post on the Gaza Strip Medical Services page.” That post went up on Oct. 14, 2020, fully three years before Safyia wrote his first essay for the New York Times, so it would be difficult for the Paper of Record to plead ignorance and claim that it had no idea when it published him that Hussam Abu Safyia was a Hamas colonel.
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WPM says
So he is a terrorist who cries over the war he and his group started by crossing the border and raping and murdering unarmed civilians? The New York Times just mentions he is a doctor upset about the war effecting the hospital he works at letting him write a opinion piece in their leftist rag ! Talk about not giving full context ,not surprising from the paper that had glowing articles about the wonders of Joseph Stalin works (1930s) in the old USSR leaving out the millions he killed by starvation ,or murder in the frozen camps ,or just plain executed .
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Honestly, I don’t care whether or not a Pali does have links w/ Hamas. I trust them to lie about Israel and Jews every step of the way. The only ones I trust are those who courageously leave islam, like Mossab Hassan Yousef
Isabella van der westhuizen says
As fas as I understand every building in Gaza is a hospital, creche or school for disabled children who just want to go to school. Every Palestinian is a journalist or trauma surgeon.
OLD GUY says
Sounds about right coming from the media.
Taffy says
The New York Times is a sound board, for the radical left, disguised as a news organization. Everything in there, except for breakthroughs in astronomy and fundamental physics, is lefty propaganda in varying degrees.
James Lincoln says
Spot on, Taffy.
It’s impossible for them to lie about the stock indices, sports scores, etc., but anything political takes a hard left turn…
Winston 101 says
J W & Mr. Spencer,
Thank you for this valuable information.
The truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth.
N Y Times lies by omission.
gravenimage says
New York Times Doesn’t Bother Telling You This Key Detail About Its Favorite Gaza Doctor
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Sadly, no one should be surprised by this from the New York Times. *Ugh*.