The Israeli army on Wednesday accused six Al Jazeera journalists covering the war in Gaza of also being current or former paid fighters for Palestinian militant groups. Al Jazeera rejected the claims.

Israel cited documents it purportedly found in Gaza, and other intelligence it gathered, in making the accusations against the journalists, all of whom are Palestinian men. It said four are or have been affiliated with Hamas, and two with Palestinian Islamic Jihad.

Al Jazeera said the accusations were “fabricated” and “part of a wider pattern of hostility” toward the pan-Arab network. It said the claims were “a blatant attempt to silence the few remaining journalists in the region, thereby obscuring the harsh realities of the war from audiences worldwide.”

The Associated Press has been unable to independently verify the authenticity of the documents Israel posted online to support its claims.

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  • Dr. Moose
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    -2114 hours ago

    Not surprising at all. inb4 terrorists spin this as “they were just terrorist journalists

    • @[email protected]
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      2514 hours ago

      Amazing how everyone Israel doesn’t like suddenly become terrorists.

      The Committee to Protect Journalists released a statement on Wednesday that was critical of Israel, which it said “has repeatedly made similar unproven claims without producing credible evidence.”

      In July, after an Israeli airstrike in Gaza City killed two Al Jazeera journalists, including Ismail Al Ghoul, Israel “produced a similar document, which contained contradictory information, showing that Al Ghoul, born in 1997, received a Hamas military ranking in 2007 – when he would have been 10 years old,” the committee said in its statement.

      • Dr. Moose
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        -1211 hours ago

        Not sure what’s your point. Both Israel’s government and Al Jazeera can be evil. It’s not a zero-sum game.

          • Dr. Moose
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            -75 hours ago

            it’s an untrustworhy news organization that at the very least fails to do an appropriate amount of background check and at most supports and promotes terrorism. Also it’s based in Qatar. Let that fucking sink in for a second.

            • @Madison420
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              55 hours ago

              So your bias is the reason you dislike their bias and you somehow think that makes it ok to paint them as terrorists and murder them? The actual fuck is wrong with you?

        • @Keeponstalin
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          1110 hours ago

          One is facilitating a genocide, one is providing first-hand reporting of the genocide

          • Dr. Moose
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            -45 hours ago

            you forgot the part where Al Jazeera is Qatar based organization with clear propaganda agenda. Do you trust Russia Today as well? I wouldn’t trust any organization based in Qatar knowing their track record of human rights abuses.

        • @actually
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          510 hours ago

          Can you point to the link which is evil?

    • Annoyed_🦀
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      912 hours ago

      Same, am not surprise that IDF will call anyone they killed a terrorist.