“eliminated” Shabat, claiming they had “exposed” his role within Hamas six months earlier, and the statement concluded with the haunting words: “Don’t let the press vest confuse you, Hossam was a terrorist.”
The Israeli military was referring to its outrageous accusation, in October 2024, that Shabat and five other journalists—all of whom work for Al Jazeera—were fighters in Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad. The statement also said that most of them were working in northern Gaza: an area where only a handful of journalists had remained, and where Israel had launched a concentrated extermination campaign earlier that month. At the time, Shabat and his colleagues, those who remained in the north, were on the ground, providing constant coverage to document Israeli atrocities.
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