Friday, August 15, 2025

Journalist Anas al Sharif NOT Hamas.

TRT News: Israel kills journalists, then falsely labels one of them a Hamas leader.

Days after Netanyahu dismissed images of Gaza’s starvation as “fake,” Israel killed journalists documenting the widespread starvation, then labelled one a Hamas leader without proof.
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Israeli forces killed six Al Jazeera journalists in a strike on Gaza City on Sunday, then accused one of them of being a Hamas leader, adding to a pattern of smearing journalists after killing them.

On Sunday, Qatari broadcaster Al Jazeera said its Gaza correspondents Anas al Sharif and Mohammed Qreiqeh were killed alongside camera operators Ibrahim Zaher, Mohammed Noufal, and an unnamed assistant when Israeli forces bombed a tent used by media near Al Shifa Hospital.

The Israeli military admitted it had deliberately targeted Al Sharif, accusing him of being a “terrorist” heading a Hamas cell involved in rocket attacks, allegations dismissed as baseless by Al Jazeera.
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“Israel has a longstanding, documented pattern of accusing journalists of being terrorists without providing any credible proof,” said CPJ Regional Director Sara Qudah, adding that Al Sharif was the latest in a series of such cases.
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Al Sharif, one of Gaza’s most recognisable [sic] reporters, had 1.6 million Instagram followers and had been documenting the war through major news outlets and his own social media.
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At the time, Al Sharif told the media watchdog that the allegation was “a real-life threat” meant to “assassinate me morally” for covering Israeli actions in Gaza

Weeks before his death, he reported on the starvation facing himself and his colleagues because of Israel’s refusal to allow enough food aid into the territory.

Sunday’s strike adds to a long record of Israel killing Palestinian journalists and then accusing them of Hamas ties.

In March 2025, another Al Jazeera correspondent named Hossam Shabat was killed in northern Gaza. The Israeli military claimed he was a Hamas sniper, but provided no evidence. Reporters Without Borders and CPJ condemned the strike as a targeted killing.

Since the war began, CPJ has documented 186 journalists killed, 178 of them Palestinians killed by Israel.
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In July, Al Sharif told CPJ that Israel accused him of Hamas ties because his reporting exposed its actions in Gaza and hurt its image abroad.

“All of this is happening because my coverage of the crimes of the Israeli occupation in the Gaza Strip harms them and damages their image in the world,” he told the media watchdog.


Netanyahu's corrupt government and Israel heap one lie on another upon another. 

Here's how it works:

"Israel bombed a hospital killing medical staff, civilians and children."

Israel: That's where Hamas hides.

"Who says that?"

Israel: Israel says so!

"Why do you believe what Israel says?"

Israel: What are you? An anti semite Jew-Hater?

"Israel bombed a school, killing civilians and children!"

Israel: That's where Hamas hides.

"Who says that?"

Israel: Israel says so!

"Why do you believe what Israel says?"

Israel: What are you? An anti semite Jew-Hater?

"Israel just bombed a mosque killing civilians and children!"

Israel: That's where Hamas hides.

"Who says that?"

Israel: Israel says so!

"Why do you believe what Israel says?"

Israel: What are you? An anti semite Jew-Hater?

"Israel just bombed a Gaza food market killing civilians and children!"

Israel: That's where Hamas hides.

"Who says that?"

Israel: Israel says so!

"Why do you believe what Israel says?"

Israel: What are you? An anti semite Jew-Hater?

"Israel just bombed a humanitarian food and aid center killing civilians and children!"

Israel: That's where Hamas hides.

"Who says that?"

Israel: Israel says so!

"Why do you believe what Israel says?"

Israel: What are you? An anti semite Jew-Hater?

"Israel kills journalists reporting on war crimes!"

Israel: That's because they're Hamas.

"Who says that?"

Israel: Israel says so!

"Why do you believe what Israel says?

Israel: What are you? An anti semite Jew-Hater?

Whatever is questioned, the replies are never answers to the question. Accept Israel's Narrative or be called an "anti semite Jew-Hater." It's all they have. Never held accountable or responsible for anything. Israel never has to provide proof of their claims. Accept whatever they say as Truth or be called some sort of, "anti semite Jew-Hater." 

Israel has always behaved perfectly throughout history. Neither Israel or Jews have ever done anything wrong. They're perfect and Godly people. Why, just read The Old Testament and you'll find that God was never displeased with Jews, He never punished them or reprimanded them. They behaved perfectly. Always. It was always those pesky, always grumbling-against-God Greeks and Romans that angered God. Never the Jews. Ever. 

Same in The New Testament. It was always the Greeks and Romans plotting to kill the apostles and Jesus, never the Jews. 

"Okay, Drake. You believe everything Al Jazeera and Hamas say and don't believe ANYTHING Israel says." No, I never said that, you're missing the entire point. Nowhere on this blog will you find I've supported any terrorist organization or believe EVERYTHING from Al Jazeera or Hamas. But questioning Israel and asking them for proof of their claims? Oh, hell no, no one is allowed to do that.


Israel’s targeted murder of Al Jazeera journalist Anas al-Sharif and several of his colleagues on Sunday has drawn widespread condemnation and outrage, including from Reporters Without Borders, The Foreign Press Association, The Committee to Protect Journalists, the UN Human Rights Office, and UNESCO.

Al Jazeera themselves have called it “yet another blatant and premeditated attack on press freedom” and “a desperate attempt to silence the voices exposing the impending seizure and occupation of Gaza.”

At Tuesday’s State Department press briefing, multiple reporters questioned spokesperson Tammy Bruce about the US’s perspective on the killings—and its culpability for them.
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Here’s a summary we posted on social media:

Q: Was Anas al-Sharif a Hamas leader?

Bruce: “We refer you to Israel… They’re the ones who have the evidence…”

Q: The US has supplied most of Israel’s weapons. Are you investigating this targeted killing of journalists?

Bruce: “I’m not going to discuss the details.” Israel “has the answers…”

Q: Are you pressing Israel to allow American journalists into Gaza?

Bruce: “We’re of course leaving that to the government of IsraelWe are not going to tell them what to do…”

Q: Has the Trump admin given Israel a green light to occupy Gaza City?

Bruce: “I would say you should contact the White House…”
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Of course” the IDF is claiming al-Sharif was Hamas, said writer Caitlin Johnstone on Sunday, “because that’s what they always do.”

They’ve been murdering a historically unprecedented number of journalists and defending their systematic effort to blind the world to their actions in Gaza by claiming that every journalist they kill is Hamas,” she continued. “The journalists are Hamas, the hospitals are Hamas, the UN is Hamas, the peace activists are Hamas, the demonstrations are Hamas, telling the truth is Hamas, human empathy is Hamas, objective reality is Hamas. It’s all Hamas.”


Political commentator (2010–2024):
Bruce had been a Democrat and a liberal activist, but later became a conservative.
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In June 2025, Bruce received backlash from many America First supporters when she said that the US was "the greatest country on earth next to Israel."

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