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Netanyahu: ‘Those who brutally murdered our children also murder their own children’
“The entire world should know: It was barbaric terrorists in Gaza that attacked the hospital in Gaza and not the IDF,” said the Israeli prime minister.
(October 17, 2023 / JNS)
Palestinian Islamic Jihad, a terrorist group based in the Gaza Strip, fired a rocket that killed hundreds of Palestinians at Gaza’s al-Ahli Arab Hospital, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu confirmed on Tuesday.

“An analysis of IDF operational systems indicates that a barrage of rockets was fired by terrorists in Gaza, passing in close proximity to the Al Ahli hospital in Gaza at the time it was hit,” he wrote on social media. “Intelligence from multiple sources we have in our hands indicates that Islamic Jihad is responsible for the failed rocket launch which hit the hospital in Gaza.”

“The entire world should know: It was barbaric terrorists in Gaza that attacked the hospital in Gaza and not the IDF,” he added. “Those who brutally murdered our children also murder their own children.”
https://www.jns.org/netanyahu-those-who-brutally-murdered-our-children-also-murder-their-own-children/

IDF: Military intercepted communications indicating Islamic Jihad fired hospital rocket
By AP and TOI STAFF
Oct 18, 2023, 4:45 am 0
In a briefing with reporters, IDF spokesperson Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari said radar detected outgoing rocket fire at the same moment the blast at the Gaza hospital occurred on Tuesday, and intercepted communications between terror groups indicating that Islamic Jihad fired the rockets.

The army determined there were no air force, ground or naval attacks in the area at the time of the blast at the Al-Ahli Baptist Hospital.

Hagari also shared aerial footage collected by a military drone that showed a blast that he said was inconsistent with Israeli weaponry. He said the explosion occurred in the building’s parking lot
https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/idf-military-intercepted-communications-indicating-islamic-jihad-fired-hospital-rocket/

LIVEBLOG: PIJ rocket caused Gaza hospital explosion, according to IDF; Biden en route
i24NEWS
October 17, 2023 at 11:47 PM
latest revision October 18, 2023 at 12:48 AM
Israel Defense Forces (IDF) conducted a comprehensive investigation of the hospital incident and concluded that it was a failed Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) rocket launch, one of approximately 450 that land within the Gaza Strip.

Nevertheless, the Arab world continued to blame Israel, with rioters breaking into the Israeli embassy compound in Jordan, and protests outside Western embassies in other Middle Eastern countries.
https://www.i24news.tv/en/news/israel-at-war/1697600820-liveblog-pij-failed-rocket-caused-deadly-explosion-at-gaza-hospital-idf-completes-probe

Misfired Palestinian Islamic Jihad Rocket Responsible for Hospital Explosion, IDF Says
By Ari Blaff
October 17, 2023 3:59 PM
...members, including Rashida Tlaib (D., Mich.) as well as Ilhan Omar (D., Minn.), cited articles relying on the Palestinian Ministry of Health reports..
Images have circulated online showing Hamas announcing on Telegram, a social-media network, minutes before the hospital strike that the terrorist group was set to launch long-range missiles capable of striking the city of Haifa in northern Israel.
“One minute before a rocket blew up a hospital in Gaza, Hamas announced on Telegram that they were launching their most robust weapons in the arsenal at Haifa.
No rockets reached Haifa. High probability these hit the hospital and set off secondary explosions within building.”
https://www.nationalreview.com/news/misfired-palestinian-islamic-jihad-rocket-responsible-for-hospital-explosion-idf-says/

Reporting Biases

Jan. 2, 2002 6:12 pm ET

Amir Taheri’s (”Bin Laden’s Private TV Channel”) insightfully exposes the true nature of Qatar’s Al-Jazeera TV channel and its adversarial role in the current conflict. Perhaps a more fitting name for this channel would be “Al-Jihadzeera”! With regard to the Bush doctrine that “You are either with us or against us”, the article makes it abundantly clear where this particular Arab institution stands.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB1010012291811235280

Palestinian Fatah:

Fatah: Al-Jazeera is a mouthpiece for Hamas
By Khaled Abu Toameh Published: March 9, 2008
https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/fatah-al-jazeera-is-a-mouthpiece-for-hamas

Meet Al-Jazeera’s pro-Hamas mouthpiece

The al-Jazeera network has chosen a clear side in the Gaza–Israel conflict, and anchorwoman Ghada Owais is taking the lead in the network’s one sided-coverage.

Roi Kais |Published: 08.11.14
https://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4557111,00.html

(Ghaith Al-Omari, Advocacy Director at American Task Force on Palestine):

Hamas Has Fractured the Arab World
America Must Help Prevent a Wider Conflict—in the West Bank and Beyond
By Ghaith al-Omari
October 13, 2023
The situation among the Arab Gulf states is similarly complex. Qatar, which backs Hamas and funds Gaza, has held Israel “solely responsible” for the escalation, mirroring Hamas’s rhetoric. Moreover, Al Jazeera’s Arabic language channel, a news station funded by Qatar that reaches tens of millions of people across the Arab world, has effectively served as a mouthpiece for Hamas.
https://www.foreignaffairs.com/israel/hamas-has-fractured-arab-world

Al Qaeda tape ‘given’ to ‘Al Jihadzeera’ shows Bin Laden ‘lieutenant’ Al Zawahiri threatening attacks on UK and US
Bush dismisses Al Qaeda warning
August 5, 2005
https://www.militantislammonitor.org/article/id/914

Al Jihadzeera’ Reporters Charged With Belonging To A Terrorist Group
February 1, 2014
https://www.militantislammonitor.org/article/id/6284

[House Hearing, 113 Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
Denouncing The Use Of Civilians As Human Shields By Hamas And Other
Terrorist Organizations. July 25, 2014

... Qatar, the same question that we entrusted to watch over to the Taliban 5 that has been supporting terrorists and radicals all across the globe and offers them sanctuary. Qatar, the same country that we just signed an $11 billion arms deal with, $11 billion, is the very same country that serves as Hamas’ mouthpiece through Al Jazeera, airing Hamas propaganda that then gets broadcast to the world.
https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/CHRG-113hhrg88835/html/CHRG-113hhrg88835.htm

Al Jazeera thanked by Hamas for “exemplary coverage,” as reporter’s story of Jerusalem arrest appears to be debunked
Jun 11, 2021 | Judy Maynard and AIJAC staff
https://aijac.org.au/fresh-air/al-jazeera-thanked-by-hamas-for-exemplary-coverage-as-reporters-story-of-jerusalem-arrest-appears-to-be-debunked/

Vicious “Palestinian” Islamist murder of Naomi Pilichowski VS accident of Jihadzeera’s propagandist Shireen Abu Akleh
[on item: CAIR and American Islam]
Submitted by Karen (United States), Nov 27, 2022
https://www.danielpipes.org/comments/289076

Islamist media competes in portraying Palestinian terrorists as victims
By Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury- October 15, 2023
...Qatari regime’s propaganda machine Al Jazeera...
https://www.weeklyblitz.net/featured/islamist-media-competes-in-portraying-palestinian-terrorists-as-victims/

The Real Story Behind the Anti-Israel Al Jazeera Network – A Mouthpiece for Qatari Propaganda

10/13/2023
...the worst offender of them all is none other than the Al Jazeera Media Network. It is a Qatari state-owned Arabic-language international news television network that failed miserably at an attempt to gain a foothold in the cable news business in the United States. Ultimately, they were compelled to shutter their doors due to exceptionally poor ratings.

Since the war began last weekend and for many years prior to that, Al Jazeera’s anti-Israel agenda was in high gear as their biased and slanted reporting was illustrated through their own inimitable style of propaganda.

Al Jazeera has taken heat in the past for their coverage from some unlikely sources at times. At the onset of the Qatar diplomatic crisis in 2017, several national governments of the Arab League called for the closure of the entire Al Jazeera conglomerate as part of a list of thirteen demands that were presented to the Qatari government in exchange for re-normalized relations... Al Jazeera has been accused of pushing “Qatari propaganda” by many countries and organizations, including those in the Arab world.

An article by Sherry Ricchiardi in the American Journalism Review (AJR) noted that critics of Al Jazeera have “assailed what they see as anti-Semitic, anti-American bias in the channel’s news content,”...
On May 30, 2017, Al Jazeera’s English-language account retweeted an Anti-Semitic meme. The network tweeted an apology after the incident, calling it a “mistake.”

In May 2019, AJ+ produced a video denying and minimizing the Holocaust. Al Jazeera suspended two journalists over the video. Wikipedia reported that the video stated that “the number of Jews murdered in the Holocaust] had been exaggerated and ‘adopted by the Zionist movement’, and that Israel is the ‘biggest winner’ from the genocide.”

During the Second Intifada, Palestinians killed by Israelis were referred to as “martyrs”; Israelis killed by Palestinians were not...
https://thejewishvoice.com/2023/10/the-real-story-behind-the-anti-israel-al-jazeera-network-a-mouthpiece-for-qatari-propaganda/