There's a 'journalist' named Evan Hill who now writes for the Washington Post.
As these sorts go, I concede he has a pretty impressive pedigree when one glances at it laid out, with three Pulitzer notches in his belt.
...Hill was a lead reporter on an investigation that proved the United States killed 10 civilians in Kabul in the final drone strike of the 20-year war in Afghanistan. The investigation prompted the Defense Department to admit its error and offer compensation and relocation to the family and won the 2022 Pulitzer Prize for international reporting. He was also a lead reporter on an investigation that proved Russia repeatedly bombed hospitals in rebel-held Syria, which won the 2020 Pulitzer Prize in international reporting, and a reporter on an investigation proving the Russian unit responsible for atrocities in Bucha, Ukraine, which won the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for international reporting. Prior to joining The Times in 2019, he was a Beirut-based researcher with Human Rights Watch, where he investigated torture, enforced disappearances, extrajudicial killings and other abuses in the Middle East. He previously worked as a features reporter for Al Jazeera America in New York City and as a Doha-based reporter for Al Jazeera English, where he covered the Arab Spring. He started his journalism career in San Francisco, where he he reported on the police, criminal courts and District Attorney Kamala Harris.
He's worked for a number of different organizations, from Human Rights Watch to, most recently, the New York Times, prior to joining the WaPo.
But it's another of his previous gigs that have people watching Hill's Xweets from Israel in horror right now, wondering exactly who he really is working for.
You see, Hill is Xweeting out pictures of Iranian missile strike damage in the country, the latest of which were some crumbling buildings near Tel Aviv. Now, this is a very reporterish thing to do, right?
Only, he's putting his own little twist on what he's sending out to the world from a combat zone with ballistic missiles aimed at it - the precise coordinates of every strike he photographs.
More exact location visible here
— Evan Hill (@evanhill) June 19, 2025
32.0828385, 34.8058036https://t.co/fqrNdupvHt pic.twitter.com/qjlsKtMeRD
Tell me that isn't a bit strange.
When I tell you that Hill used to work for Al Jazeera, how far up your forehead do your eyebrows fly?
A reporter just advised me that Evan Hill posts coordinates routinely; the reporter doesn’t think it’s unique to this incident. I’m adding the posts sent to me here.
— Marina Medvin 🇺🇸 (@MarinaMedvin) June 19, 2025
(That being said — no statement of danger was announced for the posting of coordinates for these locations.) pic.twitter.com/5O4jr1PvD6
This seems to be a game everyone's beginning to play now. Hill has reXweeted any number of other accounts that either already have the hit coordinates in the photo or someone who helpfully adds them in a reXweet.
The missile impacted next to the Ministry of Interior building in Haifa.
— Faytuks News (@Faytuks) June 20, 2025
There are multiple casualties. https://t.co/zkIVIzOszx
The strike in the Xweet below just happened, so I'm not sure they've had a chance to try to update it yet. Or, as it was a daycare center, it is quite probable that activists would be just as glad if it were never mentioned again.
Destroying daycares ruins their narrative.
Iranian missiles hit a daycare center in Israel.pic.twitter.com/78Qebe7HcY
— Marina Medvin 🇺🇸 (@MarinaMedvin) June 20, 2025
So, I'm not sure who the other networks are that Hill is broadcasting their busy little Google-Earthing fingers, but his work, as a Washington Post employee under what should be enemy fire in an allied country, is certainly causing comment and concern.
Hill locked down his account for a while yesterday when irate X users slid into his comments and pointed out that, thanks to the subversive work he was doing, the Mossad most probably already had his coordinates.
It's not like the Israelis have asked reporters in the country during the attacks not to share coordina...oh, wait.
...Israeli police stop media broadcast said to expose location of Iranian missile impacts
The Israeli police said in a statement that it dispatched cars to a facility to prevent “news agencies utilized by Al Jazeera” from transmitting “unauthorized and unlawful content.”
Israeli authorities have repeatedly warned media outlets not to share the location of Iranian missile interceptions and hits, though these have in some cases been disclosed in Israeli and foreign media.
Hey - it's not Hill's war. He's only there to 'report.' And three-time Pulitzer Prize-winning 'journalists' don't need no stinkin' Israeli government to tell them what to do and how to do it.
But just like the innerwebs is forever, so is Hill's illustrious career as well as his apparent bias. From October 7th and making excuses for Hamas (the act of terror was “being widely mischaracterized online”) to reXweeting Erdogan posts attacking Israel, you've gotta wonder why it's so important that he continues doing range targeting for the Iranians.
...Considering Israel requested that reporters not share the coordinates of missile strikes so as to not provide Iran with any extra data that could be used to improve missile targeting, these posts were already in bad form. But you could chalk this up to a careless mistake or just poor journalism if it was not for Hill’s historic support of Islamist regimes.
Early in his career, Hill spent multiple years writing for Al Jazeera, a Qatar-based news network. Al Jazeera has historically provided biased coverage of events in the Middle East, and Hill’s time there clearly reflected this. Focused primarily on the controversial events of Egypt’s 2012 election, Hill’s articles were noticeably favorable to the Islamist Muslim Brotherhood, the same party that was labeled a terrorist organization and banned in the country just a few years later.
But even as Hill’s time with Al Jazeera came to an end, his biases stuck around.
I guess this is where we are right now, with rags like the WaPo and the state of so-called 'journalism' at large.
ISRAEL: Please don't help a murderous regime target more innocents by posting coordinates and photos of any missile strikes you may encounter.
EVAN HILL, 'JOURNALIST':
What even is this… my god pic.twitter.com/UkI7Sr3gQ5
— Jay Asliken 🕋☪️✈️ (@assliken) April 16, 2025
