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IDF releases file seized in Gaza to show Al Jazeera reporter was a Hamas member

By Emanuel Fabian 3 August 2024, 4:45 pm 24 Edit

Emanuel (Mannie) Fabian is The Times of Israel's military correspondent

Al Jazeera journalist Ismail Alghoul reports from the Gaza Strip in an undated video that was broadcast during a report on his killing in an Israeli airstrike, July 31, 2024. (Screen capture: Youtube/Al Jazeera, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
Al Jazeera journalist Ismail Alghoul reports from the Gaza Strip in an undated video that was broadcast during a report on his killing in an Israeli airstrike, July 31, 2024. (Screen capture: Youtube/Al Jazeera, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

The IDF publishes a 2021 Hamas document obtained from the Gaza Strip which it says proves that Al Jazeera reporter Ismail Alghoul was a member of the terror group.

Alghoul was killed in an IDF drone strike in Gaza City on Wednesday, alongside Al Jazeera cameraman Ramy El-Rify.

The IDF said that Alghoul participated in the October 7 onslaught as a member of the terror group’s elite Nukhba force, and was later involved in instructing terror operatives on how to film and distribute videos of attacks on Israeli troops.

The document, which the IDF says was obtained from Hamas computers seized in the Gaza Strip, included the details of thousands of operatives in the terror group’s military wing.

According to the document, from 2021, Alghoul was an engineer in Hamas’s Gaza City Brigade, the IDF says.

“Despite the false attempts by Hamas and Al Jazeera to present Alghoul as a journalist, Alghoul was an active terrorist in the Hamas terror organization,” the military adds.

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