Legacy Media Outlets Worked With Literal Terror Propagandist, Hamas Doc Shows

A Hamas document Israel recovered from the Gaza Strip indicates that a freelance “journalist” who worked with two major corporate media outlets was also a propagandist for the Palestinian terror group.

The Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) published a 2019 Hamas document on Sunday that shows former CNN and Associated Press (AP) freelance photographer Hassan Aslih was a Hamas member tasked with creating “media” in support of the terrorist group. The IDF killed Aslih in a Tuesday airstrike and released the recovered Hamas document to demonstrate Aslih was no mere “journalist,” as he has been described in some mediacoverage of his death.

“Aslih was a Hamas operative who posed as a journalist,” IDF spokesperson Nadav Shoshani posted to X on Sunday. “On October 7, (2023,) he infiltrated Israeli territory alongside armed terrorists, filming scenes of murder, arson, and looting. His footage wasn’t news coverage but it was part of the attack itself, intended to glorify terror.”

The recovered records from Hamas’ military wing, the Al-Qassam Brigades, show Aslih — whose name appears to have different spellings — belonging to a “platoon” for the terror group focused on “media.” The record describes little about his role beyond “training.”

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