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Source: https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/21892/palestinian-journalists-attacked
Palestinian Journalists Attacked - By Whom?
(Gatestone Institute) Khaled Abu Toameh - A recent international campaign to express solidarity with Palestinian journalists in Gaza has pointed an accusing finger at Israel, while ignoring the suffering they have experienced under Hamas's rule during the past two decades. The global media campaign also ignored allegations that many of the Palestinian journalists targeted by the Israel Defense Forces were affiliated with Hamas and other terror groups. Since its bloody takeover of Gaza in 2007, Hamas has been waging a systematic campaign to silence its critics, including arresting journalists who do not toe the line. Consequently, the only Palestinian journalists who were free to operate in Gaza for the past two decades were those working for Qatar's Al-Jazeera, serving as Hamas's unofficial mouthpiece, or those whose reporting was limited to attacking and smearing Israel. Those who continue to ignore Hamas atrocities and human rights abuses against Palestinians are doing a great disservice to the Palestinians: they are allowing Hamas to get away with its crimes against its own people. The writer, a veteran Israeli journalist, is a senior fellow at the Gatestone Institute and the Jerusalem Center for Security and Foreign Affairs.