The ugly truth about Gaza reporting that most – Latest News
A bombshell interview with acclaimed Palestinian journalist Motaz Azaiza reveals why you’ll be able to’t trust virtually any reporting on Hamas, Israel’s conflict in Gaza, or the essential information of life underneath the fear group.
Azaiza has been feted by topline information retailers from CNN to CBS to The Guardian, named GQ’s 2023 Middle East Man of the Year, and cheered by the likes of YouTube sensation Ms. Rachel, Mayor Zohran Mamdani and Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.).
But in an hours-long taped interview, he’s now opted to inform truths he’d been hiding.
He admits that he suppressed videos of Palestinian conflict crimes towards Israeli hostages: During Hamas’ triumphal march of its kidnapees, “people got out, watched, beat them, hit them, and I followed them and filmed. But I did not publish those videos.”
He met with then-Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh however requested that all proof of or not it’s deleted.
More, he confirms that a Hamas-aligned groupchat more or much less provides marching orders to each journalist in Gaza — who obey, or else.
Hardly far-fetched: al-Jazeera (no pal of Israel) reportedly fired two dozen of its own “journalists” over alleged ties to Hamas and rival Islamist terror group Palestinian Islamic Jihad.
Above all, Azaiza admits the inflexible censorship of all speech and pictures popping out of Gaza.
“When I was filming and documenting the events, I wasn’t focused on how angry people were toward Hamas and its government,” he pleads.
“When someone gets out of the ambulance and says ‘May God punish Hamas’ while I’m filming, the people around him turn the camera away”; if what somebody says to the press “does not align” with Hamas, the speaker will “disappear behind the sun.”
Indeed, Uday al-Ruba’i “was killed during the war by Hamas simply because of opinion on Facebook.”
Azaiza even asks: “So how many were killed in Gaza by Hamas? And why don’t we hear their names in the West Bank? Not even from Fatah. They were Fatah’s own sons. Thrown off the rooftops. And nobody moved.”
He additionally blows up the lie of an “Israeli siege” of Gaza pre-Oct. 7, noting: “The last two years, it wasn’t really a siege. Something eased. . . . The country’s standard improved. A lot of new projects opened. Travel got easier. Instead of paying $1,500 or $2,000 for coordination, you’d pay $200.”
More than a decade in the past, former AP reporter and editor Matti Friedman revealed how biased the company’s Israel protection was; Hamas’ savage method to media relations was an open secret to anybody within the international or US press who bothered to look into it.
But they stored pretending that sources like Azaiza weren’t simply credible, however heroic.
They insist Israel has dedicated genocide in Gaza, when by any definition of the time period it has not. Just final week, The New York Times condescendingly reported, “Israelis still largely view themselves as the victims of Oct. 7” — after which tried to elucidate it away as an “editing error.”
This, scant months after Nicolas Kristof’s deranged libel that the IDF used canines to rape Palestinians — a column relying closely, it needs to be famous, on a Hamas-linked NGO.
So anticipate this interview to fall into a great void within the very circles that had embraced Azaiaza when he was a propagandist-by-proxy. This crowd needs to eat up Hamas’ propaganda — and solely grew more wanting to disseminate it after Oct. 7, as a result of it doesn’t care about truth or the people of Gaza: It’s all about hating on Israel.
