AP and Al Jazeera's offices were located on its top floors ..
Going, going GONE!
Posted on 05/16/2021 9:02:14 AM PDT by Hojczyk
“We showed them the smoking gun proving Hamas worked out of that building,” a source close to Foreign Minister Gabi Ashkenazi said. “I understand they found the explanation satisfactory.”
The IAF struck the 12-story tower in Gaza on Saturday, giving a warning an hour in advance.
“The building housed the offices of civilian media, which the terrorist organization Hamas hides behind and uses as human shields,” the IDF said in a statement. "The terror organization Hamas deliberately places its military assets in the heart of the civilian population in the Gaza Strip. Prior to the attack, the IDF warned the civilians who were in the building and gave them sufficient time to evacuate.”
After Operation Protective Edge in 2014, former AP reporter Matti Friedman wrote in The Atlantic: "Hamas understood that reporters could be intimidated when necessary and that they would not report the intimidation... The AP staff in Gaza City would witness a rocket launch right beside their office, endangering reporters and other civilians nearby – and the AP wouldn't report it, not even in AP articles about Israeli claims that Hamas was launching rockets from residential areas."
In light of the attack on the building in Gaza, Secretary of State Antony Blinken expressed his "unwavering support" to Associated Press president and CEO Garry Pruitt on Saturday, noting the "indispensability of their reporting in conflict zones." The AP and Al Jazeera condemned the airstrike in strong terms. Pruitt called the strike "an incredibly disturbing development." He said a dozen AP journalists and freelancers had been in the building, but were evacuated in time.
"We are shocked and horrified that the Israeli military would target and destroy the building housing AP’s bureau and other news organizations in Gaza," he said.
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Hamas wasn’t exactly “hiding” behind the media. They are openly partnered in their hate for the Israeli government.
clear out you desk biatchh!
The world would be a better place if they didn’t warn them first.
I am extremely pleased the Israelis hit the building housing the AP. The AP has probably been working with Hamas terrorists for decades.
Only thing I am sorry about is they did not get any of the AP evil doers cause they warned them in advance.
Did you know Hamas was in the building?
We were never told that.
Did you know they launched rockets next to the building?
We were never told that.
Did you witness rockets launched next to the building?
We were never told to witness that.
Perhaps we could convince Israel to sling a missile into the AP offices in New York as well?
Be careful who your friends are, right?
You wanna dance, you gotta pay the band.
“Israel showed US ‘smoking gun’ on Hamas in AP office tower, officials say”
Hamas in AP office tower and schools and churches and hospitals...their modus operandi.
Did you know Hamas was in the building?
We were never told that.
Did you know they launched rockets next to the building?
We were never told that.
Did you witness rockets launched next to the building?
We were never told to witness that.
Did you know that Hamas was researching rocket development in that building?
We were never told that.
Did you know that Hamas lost 7 or 8 of its regular fighting brigades in their tunnels?
We were never told that.
Did you know that Hamas has left the dead and wounded in the tunnels to minimize funerals and hide their losses?
We were never told that.
As you can see, that demonstrates why AP is such a great news gathering resource
Didn’t we learn last summer during the BLM/Antifa insurrection that property damage was no big deal? To quote the Speaker of the House, “people will do what they do”.
Israel has a spy network in Gaza and elsewhere. They know where everything is, at anytime.
This.
Israel specifically targets where Hamas operates from....their aim is to destroy Hamas’s infastructure. AP and Aljesera ‘allied with Hamas’ by not reporting their operations within that buiding.....they are just as guilty as Hamas.
It’s telling when they can’t give a yes or no answer. I think we are a couple of days away from “Yes we knew they were there but we needed to protect our people”.
So you lied?
Yes, to protect our people.
They will justify false reporting and lies by claiming it was “protecting our people”. No thought to “Our people are threatened by Hamas, we need to leave”. It’s “We need to lie about what is happening to get the narrative we and Hamas both want”.
The head of the snake are the mad mullah’s of Iran and their complicit cabal. Those who fund terrorists need a permanent smacking.
AP and Al Jazeera's offices were located on its top floors ..
Going, going GONE!
The IAF struck the 12-story tower in Gaza on Saturday, giving a warning an hour in advance.
how many WACHH(women and children hit hardest) did they cram into the building in that hour?
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