Throughout the Gaza War, one of the most powerful indictments of Israel was the claim that it was intentionally targeting journalists for execution in order to hide its "genocide" in Gaza.
Of course, the claim that there was a genocide in Gaza at all was based on the "reporting" of journalists who could actually report from there, who, to a person, were associated with Hamas.
The Committee to Protect Journalists was a key perpetrator of the fraud, publishing names of journalists who were supposedly killed by Israelis. They helpfully compiled a list, and Western Israel haters would cite the names of "journalists" who Israel targeted.
The Gaza “journalist” scam is collapsing. Now the Gaza “medical workers” who served as primary witnesses for the UN’s “Israel targets children” report are being exposed too. Gaza hospitals were military bases staffed by military commanders posing as medical workers. https://t.co/77AzhRlRqb
— Aizenberg (@Aizenberg55) July 1, 2026
Of course, anybody with half a brain knew that you couldn't walk freely around Gaza without being associated with Hamas, and we already know that "journalists" employed as stringers for Western media outlets even participated in the October 7th massacre and helped stage photographs to elicit sympathy from ignorant Westerners.
Now that the fighting is essentially over, Hamas is releasing names of "martyrs" who died in the fighting, and as you would expect, many of those names include doctors, relief workers, UNRWA employees, and..."journalists" who also happened to be Hamas officers and fighters.
Salem Juma Ishaq Sharab was was ALSO a nurse at Nasser Hospital. 3/ pic.twitter.com/5fqzJbAdBl
— Aizenberg (@Aizenberg55) July 1, 2026
As the names came out, the CPJ started stealth-editing their list, removing the names of "martyrs" without, at first, telling anybody.
When caught, the CPJ announced that they were looking to revise their standards for labeling somebody a "journalist," given that the claim to protection that journalists make tends to disappear when those same people are combatants in the war they are supposedly covering.
The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) is conducting a full review of its database of journalists killed during the Israel-Hamas War after Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) published obituaries identifying as combatants individuals previously listed by CPJ as journalists.
This follows Israeli media reports that multiple Hamas and PIJ operatives were previously identified as journalists.
CPJ said it removes names from its database if subsequent evidence shows individuals were not journalists or media workers, were not active in those capacities at the time of their deaths, or were engaging in combat. This applies to all countries and conflicts, it said.
Consistent with this documentation approach, CPJ has removed eight names from its “Killed” database because they were later established to have been members of Hamas or PIJ. A further 12 individuals were removed for other reasons. Each of these 20 names was listed on CPJ’s “Journalist casualties” page.
It's worse than calling Tokyo Rose a journalist. At least she wasn't actually firing weapons when she wasn't on the radio.
Ayman Suleiman Abu Tayr (ID#: 801367459, age 39), another PIJ commander was ALSO a nurse and the head of Nasser Hospital’s Therapeutic Nutrition Unit! He was killed in a June 2025 airstrike. END pic.twitter.com/gESmBayQyK
— Aizenberg (@Aizenberg55) July 1, 2026
You actually have much the same problem with children killed in the war, at least some of whom were fighters, having been trained by Hamas to sacrifice themselves to become martyrs for the cause.
The BBC refused to cover this. The British Parliament refused to discuss it. Ask yourself why. This is an official Hamas video showing children in Gaza being armed and trained to become terrorists. They received aid from Islamic Relief in Britain. pic.twitter.com/co58CoAxiW
— Amjad Taha أمجد طه (@amjadt25) July 1, 2026
Of course, every child soldier who is killed is Israel's fault, just as every "journalist" who takes a bullet or dies in an airstrike against Hamas positions is as well. It is the job of Jews to die, and of Palestinians to kill them.
Them's the rules.
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