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Reporters tell of Hamas attacks from civilian areas, get threats

Jul 24, 2014 7:33 pm By Robert Spencer

Mideast Israel PalestiniansHamas appears to be trying desperately to keep the truth from getting out. It is getting out nevertheless, but Hamas need not fear: the United Nations and the mainstream media will continue to cover for them and demonize Israel.

“Gaza reporters’ tweets: Hamas using human shields,” by Lahav Harkov, Jerusalem Post, July 24, 2014:

Several journalists from around the world reported seeing rockets fired from civilian areas in Gaza in recent days, and received threatening tweets in return accusing them of “informing” the IDF.

On Wednesday, Peter Stefanovic of Australia’s Channel Nine News tweeted: “Hamas rockets just launched over our hotel from a site about two hundred metres away. So a missile launch site is basically next door.”

An account called @ThisIsGaza said this was Stefanovic’s fourth time “passing and fabricating information to Israel… from GAZA” and threatened to sue him.

Another account, @longitude0 wrote: “You are a cretin. Are you working for the IDF” and “in WWII spies got shot.”

Financial Times Jerusalem Bureau Chief John Reed reported seeing “two rockets fired toward Israel from near al-Shifa hospital, even as more bombing victims were brought in.”

Shifa, in Gaza City, is the main medical facility in the Strip.

In response, @Saritah_91 tweeted: “We’ll hold you responsible if Israel uses your tweet to bomb the hospital & then justify it.”

Another twitter user, @ Faysal_FreeGaza, said he’s “subtly justifying and encouraging IDF attacks on hospitals,” and @Maysara_ ara wrote: “Get out of Gaza u informant.”

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Wall Street Journal correspondent Nick Casey tweeted on Tuesday a photo of a Hamas official using Shifa hospital for media interviews, writing: “You have to wonder w the shelling how patients at Shifa hospital feel as Hamas uses it as a safe place to see interviews.”

By Wednesday, the tweet was deleted, but pro-Palestinian Twitter accounts continued to include him on lists of “journos in Gaza [who] lie/fabricate info for Israel” and “must be sued for crimes.”

On Sunday, Janis Mackey Frayer, a correspondent for Canada’s CTV, tweeted that, while in Gaza City’s Shejaiya’s neighborhood, she “saw several Hamas gunmen.

One passed dressed in a woman’s headscarf… tip of a gun poked out from under cloak.”

She received threats similar to those sent to other reporters.

Harry Fear, a journalist from the UK reporting from Gaza for RT (formerly Russia Today) television, tweeted last week: “Early morning Gaza rockets were fired into Israel. A well-known site in W. Gaza City, near my hotel, was among the origins, confirm locals.”

Fear then took on the critics, tweeting soon after that he rejects “loaded complaints that I ‘informed’ Israel about the specifics of Gaza military sites… These sites are well-known among locals and internationals here.”

“Should a journalist only report the noise and ferocity of Israel’s attacks & not the sounds of Gaza’s rockets? Both terrify people,” he tweeted.

Later that day, Fear tweeted: “Al-Wafa hospital has been hit in the last while; injuries reported – this is the hospital with human shields.”

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  1. Richie says

    Jul 24, 2014 at 7:53 pm

    I think its clear the Muslims are in charge

    *Genocide against Christians is IGNORED by the western media and governments

    *Total condemnation of Israel by western media and governments

    *Public Jew bashing goes largely unchallenged

    *Criticism of Islam and the actions of Muslims is immediately
    denounced as Islamaophobic

    • AnneM says

      Jul 24, 2014 at 8:03 pm

      …….They are doing what their “god” is telling them what to do and it is NOT the God of the Holy Bible.

      • Richie says

        Jul 24, 2014 at 8:38 pm

        The Muslims serve Satan.

        God’s greatest gift is life. Muslims seek to destroy life.

      • enwhitenment says

        Jul 25, 2014 at 2:29 am

        If you look like an ape or monkey & live like Swine chances are you have been worshipping a false idol.
        No need to feel sorry for m___m__d_ns as they love death or so they say.
        The real problem is that they are either not smart enough or not brave enough to go alone.
        So they believe they need to take one or more innocent victims with them in case they have to read a map or something else that may require logical thought.

    • umbra says

      Jul 25, 2014 at 12:30 am

      A ridiculous world we live in, created by the foolish to inflict suffering for the almost entirely clueless current generation and poor unfortunate future generations.

      • Saleem Smith says

        Jul 25, 2014 at 4:23 am

        Fortunately millions of non-Muslims are being forced by world events to wake up to how truly dangerous Islam is. We ex-Muslims know that Mohammedanism must go the way of the dinosaur or the planet will drown in the blood of sharia as Muslims enforce the laws Islam.

  2. Transmaster says

    Jul 24, 2014 at 8:04 pm

    Hitler, and his minions are smiling from Hell seeing that perhaps Islam will finish for them the “Final Solution”. The UN needs to be kicked out of the United States and forced to move into their second headquarters, United Nations Office at Geneva, Switzerland which is the old League of Nations building. Let the Swiss host these bums.

    • AnneM says

      Jul 24, 2014 at 8:05 pm

      Allah = Satan.

      Islam is from the devil himself.

      • Marjama says

        Jul 24, 2014 at 8:28 pm

        Wow, so much hatred against Islam, but who said I’m going to find nice things in here…

        • Jovial Joe says

          Jul 25, 2014 at 8:04 am

          But nowhere near the hatred that observant Muslims have towards the kuffar – what the Qur’an calls ‘the worst of all creatures’. Still, now you’re here perhaps you can educate yourself and read some of Robert’s posts.

        • Mirren10 says

          Jul 25, 2014 at 1:23 pm

          ”Wow, so much hatred against Islam, but who said I’m going to find nice things in here”

          And what, exactly, is ‘nice’ about your vile cult ? Do tell.

          This site tells the **truth** about your vile cult, your foul paedophile ‘prophet’, and all the vicious, violent, murderous acts perpetrated by your co-‘religionists’ throughout the world, on a daily basis. And the ongoing jihad against Israel, and the deliberate use of human shields by the fake ‘palestinians’ of Hamas.

          **That’s** what you can’t stand. islam has never come under such scrutiny before, as is afforded by modern technology, such as the internet, and it is crumbling under it.

          Only those who **wilfully** shut their eyes and ears swallow your pitiful propaganda, and they are getting less and less, with every passing year.

          Still, since you **are** here, as Jovial Joe suggests, take a stroll through the archives, and see what misery and hate your ‘religion’ perpetrates.

    • JIMJFOX says

      Jul 25, 2014 at 3:10 am

      Agreed but don’t punish the Swiss!

      • umbra says

        Jul 25, 2014 at 5:50 am

        Most suitable location for the UN is in saudi arabia. If it ever forgoes its pretence of religious neutrality, it HQ would be located in mekka. That that point, it should also be rebranded as the useless nations.

  3. SKevin says

    Jul 24, 2014 at 8:17 pm

    Speaking of tweets:

    Saudi Man’s ‘Gay’ Tweets Earn 450 Lashes, Jail Time

    http://www.advocate.com/world/2014/07/24/saudi-mans-gay-tweets-earn-450-lashes-jail-time

  4. Wellington says

    Jul 24, 2014 at 8:32 pm

    Sorry for the aside here but I can’t help it. Look at the photograph above and you’ll see the faces of yet two more butt ugly Muslim women. This is definitely a pattern, repeated again and again and again.

    Wow, there is so much wrong with the Islamic world and one of the things wrong with it is that it produces bad looking women (and I mean dogs) aplenty. Must be the inbreeding—-or perhaps just more evidence that Islam is indeed a very false religion and some higher power is making its will known by way of diminished female countenances (and bodies)—-or both. Just sayin’.

    • Wellington says

      Jul 24, 2014 at 8:41 pm

      Oh yeah, something else. Look at the one in the black garbage bag holding the kid. She’s got man hands big time.

      • Ivan Bogdanov says

        Jul 24, 2014 at 11:37 pm

        Thats Fill_Itsarseski’s main squeeze. ‘Splains ole Fill’s hostile personality.

        More Later….

        • Jay Boo says

          Jul 26, 2014 at 1:27 pm

          I see that Boris Badanov has mastered American slang in this episode of troll crawling.

      • Jeff says

        Jul 25, 2014 at 3:41 am

        I noticed the hands too. Such a case totally undermines any of my arguments against the burka.

    • Kerry John says

      Jul 24, 2014 at 10:21 pm

      Whoa dude!! You ever seen Iranian babes? Goergous! Knockouts across the board. Odds are though, given their Persian bloodlines as against the desert camel-infused aahrab, bloodlines of the Pali’s, they are the exception amongst the ummah.

      • Wellington says

        Jul 24, 2014 at 11:22 pm

        Yes, I have noticed that Iranian women are far more likely to be attractive. Too bad, though, they’re burdened with Islam.

        • umbra says

          Jul 25, 2014 at 5:52 am

          Not a burden, but a curse.

      • Jeff says

        Jul 25, 2014 at 3:35 am

        Iranian women are beautiful. Had the great pleasure of dating female friends of the Shaw when I lived in Paris back in the 80’s.

    • nacazo says

      Jul 25, 2014 at 1:34 am

      If you were a gaza woman would you beautify yourself?

      why would you? all the attraction from uncivilized men. your husband wanting to rape you more often han normal.

    • enwhitenment says

      Jul 25, 2014 at 2:40 am

      It seems like every family has 20-40 members yet the grandparents are only 40 years old.
      Looking like apes living like swine.
      I think the kkkran might have a bit of a typo error as im sure its the Jews that were meant to be turned into apes & swine.

    • JIMJFOX says

      Jul 25, 2014 at 3:12 am

      Could that be the REAL reason why the burkha was invented??

  5. RS says

    Jul 25, 2014 at 2:39 am

    If even Harry Fear (a “journalist”/”documentary” maker with a lot of anti-Israel form) is reporting such things must be bad for Hamas supporters.

  6. onisac says

    Jul 25, 2014 at 3:12 am

    If the media and press had any wisdom at all, they would realize that Islam has serious issues unique to their own ideology’s.. They would also know that the history of Islam runs parallel with aggression, savagery, subjugation, no tolerance, and slavery…

    If this continues, the world will become Islam, and the media and press will be subjugated, just like they are in those nations right now.

    God forbid Islam should rule the world….

    • JIMJFOX says

      Jul 25, 2014 at 3:15 am

      Every day that western leaders and media persist with their lies about Islam is a day closer to the global caliphate. How muslims are rejoicing at western stupidity…

    • umbra says

      Jul 25, 2014 at 6:02 am

      There will be another world war if islam tries to conquer the world. East Asians, Russians, non-islamic southeast Asians, Israel and possibly Hindu/Buddhist inhabitants of the sub-continent will put up a fight before rolling over. Progressive controlled western countries are the most likely ones that would capitulate without putting up any meaningful fight.

      • JIMJFOX says

        Jul 25, 2014 at 7:37 am

        True- but China will prosecute war on Islam more successfully than any other country, untroubled by PC liberal multiculturalism. Uighars should be very, very nervous.

  7. Saleem Smith says

    Jul 25, 2014 at 4:08 am

    Journalists are now being threatened for reporting that Hamas is firing rockets from civilian areas in Gaza? Of course they are.

    And it is not only journalists that are being threatened with death.

    ANY FELLOW MUSLIM that fails to support Hamas will be lynched or shot in the head and thrown into the street by these Islamist animals.

    We ex-Muslims know that the death cult of Mohammedanism is so steeped in Jew and infidel hatred that nothing short of abandoning Islam will put out the numerous sharia fires currently burning across the Middle East and North Africa. Muhammad the prophet of Islam who may have never existed was clearly an evil psychopath and many Muslims now know this.

    Ex-Muslim Ali Sina’s ongoing challenge to Muslims can be found over at Faith Freedom.org

    >>>>>

    The Challenge

    I receive many emails from angry Muslims, who sometimes beg me, and sometimes order me to remove this site. I consider both, pleading and bullying, signs of psychopathology. Argumentum ad baculum and argumentum ad misericordiam are both logical fallacies.

    If you do not like this site and want me to remove it, instead of acting as a bully or as a victim, disprove my charges against Muhammad logically. Not only will I remove the site, I will publicly announce that Islam is a true religion. I will also pay

    $50,000 U.S. dollars

    to anyone who can disprove the following accusations that I have made against Muhammad. I accuse Muhammad of being:

    a narcissist
    a misogynist
    a rapist
    a pedophile
    a lecher
    a torturer
    a mass murderer
    a cult leader
    an assassin
    a terrorist
    a looter

    …These charges are irrefutable. You simply can’t disprove them because they are reported in Islamic sources and as such they are as good as confession…

    http://www.faithfreedom.org/the-challenge-2/

    • Ivan Bogdanov says

      Jul 25, 2014 at 9:53 am

      Was he also a pederast?

  8. Jovial Joe says

    Jul 25, 2014 at 4:44 am

    Hamas accuses the journos of ‘fabricating’ these rocket launches from civilian areas and in the same breath ‘passing on the information’. If it’s a fabrication then the terrorists should be thanking the press for spreading disinformation as to the location of their launch sites. Typical Muslim double-think. The only mystery is why the msm continues trading in their nonsense.

  9. duh_swami says

    Jul 25, 2014 at 5:32 am

    I have zero tolerance for the ‘blame Israel first’ crowd of stupid kuffar.
    Worse than stupid, the level of irrational hate oozing from these people is every bit as evil as the terrorists they support. If you support the terrorists you are a terrorist, and if you support the savage, you are a savage. To you I give the middle finger salute. That, and a slap upside the head with a cold dead fish…

  10. Judi says

    Jul 25, 2014 at 6:09 am

    The RT correspondent, Harry Fear, is one of the more virulently anti-semitic reporters. However, even he can’t seem to hide the truth what is really happening in Gaza.

  11. george whyte says

    Jul 25, 2014 at 6:24 am

    intresting read…

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-2705042/RICHARD-LITTLEJOHN-What-Hamas-rocket-hit-BA-plane.html

  12. wildjew says

    Jul 25, 2014 at 8:07 am

    I’ve been watching the Fox News reporter on the ground in Gaza. His reporting is decidedly sympathetic to the Palestinians who elected Hamas. I wondered if it was possible that he has gotten threats. How can a reporter feel safe in Gaza if he reports the truth?

  13. el-cid says

    Jul 25, 2014 at 9:19 am

    No one went broke underestimating the stupidity of people, especially people who already made up their minds.

    Any thinking person can see that the only “News” that gets out of Gaza is the “News” fabricated and controlled by Hamas.

    That is the battleground–public opinion. Direct from Goebbels’ or Stalin’s playbook.

    Why the news channels even transmit it is a travesty of journalism since the fabrication of the news IS the news.

  14. pumbar says

    Jul 25, 2014 at 9:30 am

    Complete lunatic hags. No wonder their “husbands” want to nip out for a spot of suicide bombing.

  15. Elisheva14 says

    Jul 25, 2014 at 11:25 am

    Anti-Semitism is so ingrained in these people thinking that they deceive themselves with lies. Hate of the Jews sells newspapers. We are still fighting the Nazis. For the victory over these savages we need to pray to G-d to protect the IDF and Israel. It is our only hope. May Israel be strong.

    Good video:
    http://avalon.law.yale.edu/20th_century/hamas.asp

  16. Elisheva14 says

    Jul 25, 2014 at 11:25 am

    Anti-Semitism is so ingrained in these people thinking that they deceive themselves with lies. Hate of the Jews sells newspapers. We are still fighting the Nazis. For the victory over these savages we need to pray to G-d to protect the IDF and Israel. It is our only hope. May Israel be strong.

    Good video:
    http://avalon.law.yale.edu/20th_century/hamas.asp

  17. Silvia says

    Jul 25, 2014 at 7:50 pm

    Personally, I don’t give a shit how they look, I care what they do. I even feel sorry for them because I’m a woman and I can’t imagine greater hell than to be born into one of those “societies”. But you all reminded me of something.

    About a year ago or so, I read an article that was published about some research by a woman scholar. I don’t remember her name, the university or her nationality but it was one of the Western ones (maybe European?!?).

    The subject was (I kid you NOT!)
    “Why don’t Israeli soldiers ever rape Arab women?”!!!!!!!

    They researched and researched and couldn’t find any reports in recent memory of such a case. They worked hard on trying to find an explanation to such an unusual situation.

    I expected them to come up with the obvious reason – because they are not BEASTS! Because they are MORAL.

    Lo and Behold !!!! The only logical explanation they found was that Israeli soldiers think Arab women are ugly and unappealing! So much so they couldn’t do it! Needless to say they didn’t interview any Israeli soldiers (they said so) but that was the only “logical” explanation for an “illogical” phenomenon.

    You see, they had to take something positive and absolutely turn it into a complete negative when the subject is an Israeli soldier. Morality, civility, humanity didn’t even occur to them.

    • Wellington says

      Jul 25, 2014 at 9:01 pm

      Being a woman, Silvia, I can understand why you don’t “give a shit how they look,” but I hope you can understand why men like myself do. Be assured, your point about what these women believe and do as most important is an unassailably valid one, as is the real reason why Israeli soldiers don’t rape Arab Muslim women, but nonetheless I have found it interesting over the years that whenever Arab Muslim women are depicted, their overall ugliness repeats itself time and time again.

      I don’t even mean to be funny here, just accurate. No wonder, as one regualr JW commenter who is a woman has asserted, that Arab Muslim men seek out Western women—–they are faced with ugliness ordinarily en masse, though their warped Islamic beliefs are another reason of course.

      • Silvia says

        Jul 25, 2014 at 9:47 pm

        Wellington, rape is about power, subjugation, hate and humiliation. It’s not about beauty, weight or youth. That’s what made that research I mentioned doubly criminal. A woman, supposedly educated that would turn rape into something it isn’t just to be able to trash and malign the IDF. She outdid herself by basically saying the IDF soldiers don’t rape because they are bigots! In her mind, it was impossible that they could be civilized and moral. There had to be nefarious reasons for not doing a nefarious act..

        • Wellington says

          Jul 25, 2014 at 10:22 pm

          I understand and agree, Silvia.

    • Mirren10 says

      Jul 26, 2014 at 7:28 am

      Hi, Silvia.

      I can’t find the original article, but this is a reply to it.

      http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/124674#.U9OQAOkg_6Q

      It seems this was some kind of research thesis, done at Hebrew University, by, I think, a *Jew* !!

      Just goes to show every race, nation, has its fools.

      • Silvia says

        Jul 26, 2014 at 10:42 am

        @Mirren10 Yeah, but I also know that I read about another such “research” by some European woman scholar. Sorry, I don’t remember the details. It was in the past 1-2 years, not 7-8 years ago.

        It’s the same shit though so, yeah.

        • Jovial Joe says

          Jul 26, 2014 at 10:46 am

          On Mirren’s link there are comments to the article which link to the thesis (it’s in Hebrew but the abstract is in English). Thanks to both of you for the info – shockingly misguided thesis proposed by the author.

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