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Gaza Reporters Are a Branch of Hamas's "Special Forces" Dedicated to Defeating Israel
(Substack) Lenny Ben-David - Under penalty of death, no reporter or photographer in Gaza today can file an accurate report on Hamas human rights violations or casualties. Western editors rely on their Gaza reporters and fixers who report what Hamas tells them to. The Gaza Press Corps is one of Hamas's most important units. They report the casualty figures or starvation numbers given to them by the Hamas-controlled Ministry of Health. When Hamas seeks an international campaign claiming Israel starves babies, the Gazan press and photographers are quick to find ravaged sufferers of congenital diseases to present as hungry victims, and the New York Times is just as fast to print the pictures on its front page. The writer, former Deputy Chief of Mission at Israel's Embassy in Washington, is a Research and Diplomacy Fellow at the Jerusalem Center for Security and Foreign Affairs.