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In reply to the discussion: Hamas's Civilian Death Strategy [View all]shira
(30,109 posts)87. Gaza reporters’ tweets: Hamas using human shields
Slowly but surely, Hamas' game is being exposed along with Hamas' western enablers.
Foreign journalists receive death threats for fabricating information for Israel, accused of informing on terrorists.
http://www.jpost.com/Operation-Protective-Edge/Gaza-reporters-tweets-Hamas-using-human-shields-368689
Several journalists from around the world reported seeing rockets fired from civilian areas in Gaza in recent days, and received threatening tweets in return accusing them of informing the IDF.
On Wednesday, Peter Stefanovic of Australias Channel Nine News tweeted: Hamas rockets just launched over our hotel from a site about two hundred metres away. So a missile launch site is basically next door.
An account called @ThisIsGaza said this was Stefanovics fourth time passing and fabricating information to Israel... from GAZA and threatened to sue him.
Another account, @longitude0 wrote: You are a cretin. Are you working for the IDF and in WWII spies got shot.
Financial Times Jerusalem Bureau Chief John Reed reported seeing two rockets fired toward Israel from near al-Shifa hospital, even as more bombing victims were brought in.
Shifa, in Gaza City, is the main medical facility in the Strip.
In response, @Saritah_91 tweeted: Well hold you responsible if Israel uses your tweet to bomb the hospital & then justify it.
Another twitter user, @ Faysal_FreeGaza, said hes subtly justifying and encouraging IDF attacks on hospitals, and @Maysara_ ara wrote: Get out of Gaza u informant.
Wall Street Journal correspondent Nick Casey tweeted on Tuesday a photo of a Hamas official using Shifa hospital for media interviews, writing: You have to wonder w the shelling how patients at Shifa hospital feel as Hamas uses it as a safe place to see interviews.
By Wednesday, the tweet was deleted, but pro-Palestinian Twitter accounts continued to include him on lists of journos in Gaza who lie/fabricate info for Israel and must be sued for crimes.
On Sunday, Janis Mackey Frayer, a correspondent for Canadas CTV, tweeted that, while in Gaza Citys Shejaiyas neighborhood, she saw several Hamas gunmen.
One passed dressed in a womans headscarf... tip of a gun poked out from under cloak.
She received threats similar to those sent to other reporters.
Harry Fear, a journalist from the UK reporting from Gaza for RT (formerly Russia Today) television, tweeted last week: Early morning Gaza rockets were fired into Israel. A well-known site in W. Gaza City, near my hotel, was among the origins, confirm locals.
Fear then took on the critics, tweeting soon after that he rejects loaded complaints that I informed Israel about the specifics of Gaza military sites... These sites are well-known among locals and internationals here.
Should a journalist only report the noise and ferocity of Israels attacks & not the sounds of Gazas rockets? Both terrify people, he tweeted.
Later that day, Fear tweeted: Al-Wafa hospital has been hit in the last while; injuries reported this is the hospital with human shields.
http://www.jpost.com/Operation-Protective-Edge/Gaza-reporters-tweets-Hamas-using-human-shields-368689
Several journalists from around the world reported seeing rockets fired from civilian areas in Gaza in recent days, and received threatening tweets in return accusing them of informing the IDF.
On Wednesday, Peter Stefanovic of Australias Channel Nine News tweeted: Hamas rockets just launched over our hotel from a site about two hundred metres away. So a missile launch site is basically next door.
An account called @ThisIsGaza said this was Stefanovics fourth time passing and fabricating information to Israel... from GAZA and threatened to sue him.
Another account, @longitude0 wrote: You are a cretin. Are you working for the IDF and in WWII spies got shot.
Financial Times Jerusalem Bureau Chief John Reed reported seeing two rockets fired toward Israel from near al-Shifa hospital, even as more bombing victims were brought in.
Shifa, in Gaza City, is the main medical facility in the Strip.
In response, @Saritah_91 tweeted: Well hold you responsible if Israel uses your tweet to bomb the hospital & then justify it.
Another twitter user, @ Faysal_FreeGaza, said hes subtly justifying and encouraging IDF attacks on hospitals, and @Maysara_ ara wrote: Get out of Gaza u informant.
Wall Street Journal correspondent Nick Casey tweeted on Tuesday a photo of a Hamas official using Shifa hospital for media interviews, writing: You have to wonder w the shelling how patients at Shifa hospital feel as Hamas uses it as a safe place to see interviews.
By Wednesday, the tweet was deleted, but pro-Palestinian Twitter accounts continued to include him on lists of journos in Gaza who lie/fabricate info for Israel and must be sued for crimes.
On Sunday, Janis Mackey Frayer, a correspondent for Canadas CTV, tweeted that, while in Gaza Citys Shejaiyas neighborhood, she saw several Hamas gunmen.
One passed dressed in a womans headscarf... tip of a gun poked out from under cloak.
She received threats similar to those sent to other reporters.
Harry Fear, a journalist from the UK reporting from Gaza for RT (formerly Russia Today) television, tweeted last week: Early morning Gaza rockets were fired into Israel. A well-known site in W. Gaza City, near my hotel, was among the origins, confirm locals.
Fear then took on the critics, tweeting soon after that he rejects loaded complaints that I informed Israel about the specifics of Gaza military sites... These sites are well-known among locals and internationals here.
Should a journalist only report the noise and ferocity of Israels attacks & not the sounds of Gazas rockets? Both terrify people, he tweeted.
Later that day, Fear tweeted: Al-Wafa hospital has been hit in the last while; injuries reported this is the hospital with human shields.
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Theer you go again, shira. You're up to the same old game of planned disinformation.
R. Daneel Olivaw
Jul 2014
#40
i think the ones putting the kids in harms way and then inviting attack are the guilty ones
samsingh
Jul 2014
#27
So Israel is inviting Palestinian refugees into Israel have I got that right? how many
azurnoir
Jul 2014
#8
Sounds To Me That Innocent People Are Trying To Protect Their Homes Any Way They Can
wellst0nev0ter
Jul 2014
#66
"and allow them to set up shop in your living room as their base of operations."
Fozzledick
Jul 2014
#38
Too bad they can't learn much about proficiency in urban warfare from the IDF...
shaayecanaan
Jul 2014
#42
(Video) Hamas using Palestinians as human shields: We desire Death as you desire Life
shira
Jul 2014
#50
Israel is still doing its best to distinguish b/w civilians and combatants. That's a fact....
shira
Jul 2014
#57