Qatar’s Al Jazeera television network today rejected accusations by the Israeli military that one of its journalists wounded in an attack in Gaza is a member of the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas.
“The network condemns the accusations against its journalists and recalls Israel’s long history of lies and fabricated persuasions through which it seeks to hide its heinous crimes,” Al Jazeera wrote in a statement.
According to the television network, its correspondent Ismail Abu Omar and its cameraman Ahmed Matar were injured on Tuesday 13/02 by an Israeli strike in the Rafah sector, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip.
But according to the Israeli military, Ismail Abu Omar is a deputy company commander in a Hamas battalion in the town of Khan Younis, near Rafah.
“Abu Omar was also videotaped in the Nir Oz kibbutz during the October 7 massacre and posted (his video) on social media,” the army said Wednesday in a statement, referring to the deadly October 7 Hamas attack on it. southern Israel.
In its statement, Al Jazeera says its employment policy stipulates that employees should not have political connections that could affect their professionalism. He accused Israel of systematically targeting Al Jazeera workers in Gaza.
Al Jazeera Media Network has rebuked Israel’s claim that it targeted and severely injured journalist Ismail Abu Omar because he is a Hamas deputy commander.
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In early January, two of its journalists, Hamza Dahdu and Mustafa Thuraya, were killed when their car was hit in the southern part of the Palestinian territory.
The Israeli military had accused the two men of being terrorist elements and of operating drones that posed a direct threat to Israeli troops, charges denied by their family and their employer.
In December, cameraman Samir Abu Dakka was killed by an Israeli strike.
Al Jazeera’s Gaza bureau chief, Wael Dahdu, Hamza Dahdu’s father, was also injured in the war.
Source: RES-MPE
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