Telemadrid, the public channel of the Community of Madrid, has received harsh criticism after publishing a message on networks in which it reproduces propaganda from the Israeli Army, which accuses six Al Jazeera reporters in Gaza of belonging to Hamas and Islamic Jihad .
“The journalists are part of the military wing of Hamas that operates as the vanguard of Hamas’s propaganda war against Israel,” says Telemadrid in a tweet accompanied by the photo of the six Palestinian journalists and the ’emoji’ of the Hamas flag. Israel. In its article, the Madrid network limits itself to replicating the accusations of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) and gives the identity of the reporters identified in the Army pamphlet as “affiliated with the military wings of Hamas or the Islamic Jihad.” ”.
The tweet has been qualified with a note from readers in which is only the opinion of the Army.” “Israel has already lied in other similar cases,” the context note indicates.
A “pretext for more violence against journalists”
The Al Jazeera network itself has “categorically” rejected the accusations of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) that accuse several of its journalists of being “terrorists.” “They are based on fabricated evidence,” says the Qatari channel in a statement published last night. “These accusations are part of a pattern of hostility towards Al Jazeera, derived from its unwavering commitment to transmitting the truth about Gaza and other places,” the network explains in the text. And it warns: “Al Jazeera fears that these accusations could serve as a pretext for more violence against journalists.”
At least 128 reporters or media workers have died in the Gaza Strip due to Israeli attacks since October 7, 2023, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), which has also condemned – and denied – on its social networks the accusations by the Israeli Army against these reporters.
“This is not the first time that Israel has made unproven claims of this type without credible evidence. After killing Al Jazeera correspondent Ismail Al Ghoul in July, the IDF previously produced a similar document that contained contradictory information, claiming that Al Ghoul, born in 1997, obtained a military rank in Hamas in 2007, when he was only 10 years old. indicates the Committee to Protect Journalists in X.
Israel’s history of attacks against Al Jazeera and its workers goes back a long way. In early October, two camera operators from the network, Ali Al-Attar and Fadi Al Wahidi were seriously injured by Israeli airstrikes in Gazato the point that several NGOs demanded that Israel authorize their evacuation. Last September the Hebrew Army raided the offices of the Qatari channel in Ramallah and ordered its closure. In December 2023, Israel killed an Al Jazeera cameraman in a bombing in Gaza and police attacked a photographer in Jerusalem. In May 2022, Israeli forces killed Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh with a shot to the head.
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