You can absolutely trust the AP’s coverage of Israel.
After an airstrike struck a building with terrorist tenants that included Hamas and Al Jazeera, controlled by Qatar, a backer of Hamas, the main story in the media was about… the media.
Specifically the AP’s presence in the same building.
“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. They have long known the location of our bureau and knew journalists were there. We received a warning that the building would be hit,” the AP’s statement says.
And the AP is complaining about what? Israel warned it that the building was a target. AP chose to share a building with Hamas and pretend not to know about it.
“This strike is an incredibly disturbing development. We narrowly avoided a terrible loss of life. A dozen AP journalists and freelancers were inside the building and thankfully we were able to evacuate them in time,” the AP complains.
Except that it was warned and was able to evacuate the building. So the pretense that it was ever at risk is nonsense.
Finally, the AP claims “We have had no indication Hamas was in the building or active in the building. This is something we actively check to the best of our ability.”
You can believe the AP or its former correspondent, Matti Friedman who wrote about the service’s dishonesty back in 2014.
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. (This happened.) Hamas fighters would burst into the AP’s Gaza bureau and threaten the staff—and the AP wouldn’t report it. (This also happened.) Cameramen waiting outside Shifa Hospital in Gaza City would film the arrival of civilian casualties and then, at a signal from an official, turn off their cameras when wounded and dead fighters came in, helping Hamas maintain the illusion that only civilians were dying.
The AP claimed that its interactions with Hamas terrorists isn’t news.
Colford, the AP spokesman, confirmed that armed militants entered the AP’s Gaza office in the early days of the war to complain about a photo showing the location of a rocket launch, though he said that Hamas claimed that the men “did not represent the group.” The AP “does not report many interactions with militias, armies, thugs or governments,” he wrote. “These incidents are part of the challenge of getting out the news—and not themselves news.”
Interactions with the IDF however are always news.
The AP offers us two options
1. It’s incompetent and didn’t know it was sharing a building with Hamas
2. It knew it was sharing a building with Hamas
Notably, the AP isn’t really offering a denial. It’s demanding that Israel prove Hamas was there.
Bonus question: Were any of the AP’s freelancers affiliated with Hamas?
Keith O says
AP didn’t know Hamas fighters were in the building?
What? The guys walking up and down the stairs with AK-47s, RPG-7s and other military hardware wasn’t a clue?
Just who do these clowns think they are kidding? When the media tells blatant lies and knows that the sheeples will believe it, well we all have a serious problem.
JOEYN says
I would not surprised if that apart from sharing a building, they were also sharing employees.
Clive Delmonte says
I just don’t how low the media can sink! The BBC coverage of the Biden stolen election was an eye-opener for me, showing as it did, a blatant unwillingness to even attempt to tell the truth.
Charlie in NY says
I wonder if any AP reporters have checked out the basement of the Shifa Hospital recently or do they not wish to bother any Hamas leaders in their HQ?
revereridesagain says
A fine piece of demolition that was! Rather a pity they felt obliged to warn the tenants. I very much doubt such would have been the case had the shoe been on the other foot.
gravenimage says
Israel is *far more civilized* than the vicious Jihadists she faces.
gravenimage says
AP Pretends It Didn’t Know It Was Sharing a Building With Hamas
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Yeah–because *that* would be hared for investigative journalists to miss…
Alfredo says
Israel doesn’t have to justify itself to the AP buffoons. If they had any decency left in them after their BS detector was rendered disabled by petro-dollars, the very least they could do is to thank the Sabras for having the decency (unlike them), to call and warn them of an imminent attack on the building they were sharing with.HAMAS. These brazen hacks disguised as paparazzi must have known the building was being used by the Jew-haters and would not be surprised if they rented a place in the same building so they could have access to the officials in a timely fashion. Because in the sordid demi-monde of the paparazzi the “holy grail” is to get there, the fastest, with the mosted, to obtain the coveted scoop!
commonsense says
+1
Kesselman says
MSM better get their butts out and away from Hamas. I’ll say, that AP et al don’t deserve better than being a collateral target for the next IAF bomber raid. MSM is complicit as long as they act as the terrorists extended arms.
OLD GUY says
WOW! the Associated Press didn’t know they shared a building with HAMAS and Al Jazeera. That doesn’t sound like they are a vary good source for news, more like they are the propaganda arm of Islamic Jihad.
Before we continue to call the AP part of the free press perhaps an investigation into the revenue sources of its board of directors and management should take place. Wouldn’t be surprised to find major funding from countries or citizens of Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Iran, Pakistan, Turkey, etc. Lots of oil money and American foreign aid dollars flowing around in that part of the world.
St. Croix says
We could probably take bets on that. Fine “investigative journalists” they are. If they admit they were ignorant, they are saying they’re incompetent at their work, and if they say they knew, they are complicit and have been lying all along. Exposed.
The craziness level in the world has recently quadrupled.
unbeliever1 says
This is a great example of not fighting the enemy on their terms. i wonder how many of Hamas militants have been trapped in those tunnels.
https://youtu.be/Os_FyUvfwcg
John Lloyd Scharf says
SO, the AP assumes it is okay when a news organization is ignorant. Do YOU trust the Marxist Socialist Media Muhammadan Apologists?
Keys says
Looks like the IDF killed the terrorist pictured in this post.
https://www.oann.com/israel-kills-a-top-hamas-military-official/
Infidel says
That’s great news. Don’t stop until it’s all over. Ignore the UN and anyone else, including Biden
St. Croix says
Another snarling Muslim mug. A good match for Rashida Tlaib! *Separated at Birth”