Posted on 05/16/2021 11:07:06 AM PDT by Twotone
Former Associated Press reporter Matti Friedman directly contradicted Associated Press President and CEO Gary Pruitt, who claimed Saturday the AP was unaware that Hamas terrorists were using the same building in Gaza City where AP and other media outlets housed their Gaza bureaus.
What did Pruitt claim?
After Israeli Defense Forces targeted a high-rise building in Gaza Saturday, which housed an AP bureau along with offices for other media outlets including Al Jazeera, the IDF revealed Hamas intelligence forces also occupied the building.
In a statement, Pruitt claimed his staffers "had no indication" Hamas worked from the building, and demanded Israel reveal evidence to prove terrorists, in fact, occupied the building.
"The Israeli government says the building contained Hamas military intelligence assets. We have called on the Israeli government to put forward the evidence," Pruitt said.
"AP's bureau has been in this building for 15 years. We have had no indication Hamas was in the building or active in the building," he added. "This is something we actively check to the best of our ability. We would never knowingly put our journalists at risk."
But what did Friedman say? The former AP journalist revealed in a 2014 article for the Atlantic that AP journalists knew about the presence of Hamas terrorists, explaining how Hamas uses the media to disseminate its narrative about the Israel-Palestine conflict.
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Shouldn’t the AP [Always Palestinian?] be made to prove that that building DIDN’T have a “station” on the Gaza Strip, Hamas Metro tunnel system?
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It's an open secret that any media that wants to survive in 'oppressive racist Islamic Palestine' has to play their game. But there are levels in anti-Israelism...
“If everyone leaves, then they knew that Hamas was working there.”
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Smart.
I really dont think the IDF gives a sh!t what the AP thinks or believes.
Net said the people in that building were told to leave before the bombing.
There is a reason why you should be reluctant to go to war. There are huge costs. If you can't afford the costs of war, don't engage in one.
I guess the simple question is..how come the media is using the same building with a TERRORIST ORGANIZATION..wait, I just answered my own question..Hamas..media..same thing
What is the “smoking gun evidence” that Israel revealed?
An interesting question:
Why did Hamas evacuate the families living in the apartments in that building, considering the HUGE propaganda coup possible if The Jew blew it up with them inside?
Answer: Those are the families of the terrorists.
Nothing else makes sense, and having the families in the building also means that the terrorists did not have to expose themselves when they went home for dinner after planning their latest jihad.
Shucks I wanted to see helmet man again.
Just blow the building up. If terrorist ate in it, then everyone is.
Like all fake news narratives, the AP will never admit knowing they were sharing space with Hamas. Just like they will never express gratitude to the IDF for not blowing up the building with them in it. I wouldn’t have been so civilized.
yes, AP works with the Fakestinian Hamas terrorist murder gangsters, and not only in the same building.. just read some of the AP dispatches, ha!
however,
Jerusalem does not need to prove anything. Israel was attacked in a serious and indiscriminate fashion. Israel can and should eliminate the entire Gaza (and PLO and Hezballah) threat, once and for all. No explanations needed.
A tall building is ideal for optical and electronic surveillance.
It should be added: Palestinian thugs like nice offices too.
Yea ... they can’t see what’s happening right under their noses, maybe that explains their disastrous reporting.
Btw. I think the AP knew and are full of crap.
“Hamas uses the media to disseminate its narrative about the Israel-Palestine conflict”
That in itself is merely propaganda.
Pruitt “ demanded Israel reveal evidence to prove terrorists, in fact, occupied the building.”
Israel: FU AP, and since you were in the same building, prove you’re not a propaganda mouthpiece for Hamas.
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