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Jesse Kline: Even Hamas is now admitting dead 'journalists' were in fact terrorists

Yet many advocacy groups are leaving their names on lists of journalists purportedly killed by Israel

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When an Al-Jazeera cameraman was killed in Gaza over the weekend, the incident was predictably used to further the narrative that Israel has been systematically “targeting journalists and silencing the voice of truth,” as the Qatari state broadcaster claimed. Yet as the dust settles in Gaza, the terrorist groups themselves have been quietly admitting that many of the so-called journalists purportedly killed by Israel were actually jihadists.

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After Ahmed Wishah died in an Israeli airstrike on Saturday, Al-Jazeera called it a “heinous crime.” A Democracy Now! story claimed that, “Israel has now killed over 260 journalists in Gaza,” and quoted a single source, who used the opportunity to falsely accuse the Jewish state of using “genocidal tactics.”

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