{"id":633352,"date":"2026-10-01T16:52:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-01T16:52:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/633352\/"},"modified":"2026-10-01T16:52:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-01T16:52:09","slug":"idf-170-alleged-journalists-killed-in-gaza-were-hamas-palestinian-islamic-jihad-terrorists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/633352\/","title":{"rendered":"IDF: 170 alleged \u2018journalists\u2019 killed in Gaza were Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad terrorists"},"content":{"rendered":"

The journalists’ identities and terrorist affiliations were verified using documentation released by the terrorist organizations<\/a> themselves and materials recovered by Israeli troops during Gaza operations, the military stated.<\/p>\n

The IDF launched a website dedicated to compiling information regarding terrorists found to be misrepresenting themselves as civilian journalists and combating accusations<\/a> that the IDF deliberately targets civilians working in the media.<\/p>\n

Earlier on Thursday, the IDF released a statement highlighting ten journalists who doubled as Hamas and PIJ terrorists.<\/p>\n

The terrorists, some of whom worked for news outlets such as Reuters, Turkish state-run Anadolu Agency, and Palestine Now News Agency, operated as snipers, commanders, trainers, and propaganda agents, among other roles.<\/p>\n

The deaths of the alleged civilian journalists were cited in complaints and condemnations launched against Israel.<\/p>\n

Hamas terrorist Asem Adli Ahmed al-Barsh, an alleged journalist for Palestinian Al-Rai Radio, was named by Reporters Without Borders (RSF) in a December 2023 complaint to the International Criminal Court.<\/p>\n

RSF accused Israel of deliberately targeting civilian journalists and did not mention Barsh\u2019s status as a Hamas terrorist in the complaint.<\/p>\n

RSF also engraved the name of Mohammed Mahmoud Abdel Aziz Abu Sharia, a PIJ sniper who allegedly worked for Palestinian Shams News Agency, in a memorial dedicated to journalists who were killed between June 2024 and June 2025.<\/p>\n

In 2024, then UNESCO Director-General Audrey Azoulay condemned the killing of another Hamas terrorist, Mohammed Manhal Ahmed Abu Armana, whom the IDF identified as Hamas\u2019s Rafah Brigade Propaganda Department Commander.<\/p>\n

A number of the terrorists named by the IDF were included in the Committee to Protect Journalists’ (CPJ’s) database of journalists and media workers killed in Gaza since 2023.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The journalists’ identities and terrorist affiliations were verified using documentation released by the terrorist organizations themselves and materials…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":633353,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[50,69,51,1031,85,46,12275,43,6208,98],"class_list":["post-633352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-gaza","tag-gaza-strip","tag-hamas","tag-idf","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-journalism","tag-news","tag-palestinian-islamic-jihad","tag-terrorism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/633352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=633352"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/633352\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/633353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=633352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=633352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=633352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}