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June 9, 2024

IDF says rescued hostages were held at the home of a Gaza journo who wrote for Al Jazeera

By Monica Showalter

A gander at Al Jazeera's website reveals a strong bias for the 'Israel-bad, Palestinians-victims' party line so dear to Hamas.

But mere bias may be the least of this Qatari-financed news agency's issues.

The Israeli Defense Forces says that one of its contributors, Abdallah Aljamal, was actually holding three of the hostages rescued on Saturday by Israeli commandos inside his Gaza home as a trusted Hamas operative. His father, a doctor, was holding the other one, Noa Argamani, the female hostage who was rescued with the other three.

According to the New York Post:

A Gaza journalist who wrote for Al Jazeera was holding three hostages in his home with his family before he was killed by Israeli commandos during a rescue operation on Saturday, according to the Israeli military.

Abdallah Aljamal, who also worked as a spokesman for the Hamas-run labor ministry, was killed when special forces soldiers stormed his home in central Gaza and rescued hostages Almog Meir Jan, 21, Andri Kozlov, 27, and Shlomi Ziv, 41, the Israeli military said. 

Aljamal’s death was originally reported by Rami Abdu, the head of the Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor, who claimed Israel Defense Forces soldiers raided the journalist’s home and killed him and several members of his family.

There also was this:

 

 

Al Jazeera has denied even knowing the guy, while at the same time, saying he wouldn't dream of engaging in terrorist activities, but that doesn't make much sense -- if they didn't know him or he was some distant memory to them, how would they know if he was a terrorist or not?

#AlJazeera, and that his name was linked to what happened in the Israeli army's liberation of…

— Al Jazeera PR (@AlJazeera) June 9, 2024

 

Some of his columns, and his author's page, have been perfectly visible to the public until they were taken down. The IDF ran a screen shot of his Al Jazeera author's page:

 

  

 

He also liked dressing his kid up as a terrorist and flashing him around on the Internet:

 

 

 

He was probably just an occasional contributor and not a full time staffer for Al Jazeera. Where he got his real money from was -- a U.S.-based NGO:

 

 

 

 

 

 

He'd write stuff like this, with the top guy at that NGO's newspaper, the Palestine Chronicle, the pair sharing a byline at Al Jazeera:

 

  

 

In his last piece, an opinion column for the Palestine Chronicle, he showed us all what a sentimental guy he was, decrying all the memories lost with Israel's bombing of some apartment building in Gaza, while his own hostages were ensconced at his residence against their will. 

 

 

What this shows is that NGOs and media organizations such as Al Jazeera have a lot to answer for in the enabling of terrorists.

When Israel shut down Al Jazeera's office in Israel last April, the hullaballoo was deafening, with claims that Israel hated freedom of the press. Actually, they knew stuff, a lot more than they were letting on, about the objectivity of these bounders claiming to be the free press, along with the NGOs.

Now the truth is out. Next time someone starts yelling about freedom of the press, bring up the matter of Abdallah Aljamal, the hostage holder for Hamas.

Image: Screen shot from X / Palestine Chronicle.

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