A Gaza journalist who wrote for Al Jazeera was holding three hostages in his residence together with his household earlier than he was killed by Israeli commandos throughout a rescue operation on Saturday, in response to the Israeli army.
Abdallah Aljamal, who additionally labored as a spokesman for the Hamas-run labour ministry, was killed when particular forces troopers stormed his residence in central Gaza and rescued hostages Almog Meir Jan, 21, Andri Kozlov, 27, and Shlomi Ziv, 41, the Israeli army mentioned.
Aljamal’s dying was initially reported by Rami Abdu, the top of the Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor, who claimed Israel Protection Forces (IDF) troopers raided the journalist’s residence and killed him and a number of other members of his household.
The IDF acknowledged that Aljamal was retaining the hostages inside his household residence, however made no point out of what occurred to his kinfolk.
“That is additional proof that the Hamas terrorist organisation makes use of the civilian inhabitants as a human defend,” the IDF mentioned in a press release.
Aljamal had beforehand written a column for Al Jazeera in 2019. The Qatar-based outlet mentioned Aljamal was by no means an worker.
Earlier than his dying, Aljamal was contributing to the Palestine Chronicle information outlet, the place he wrote a plethora of tales masking the deaths of Palestinians in Gaza throughout Israel’s offensive.
Lots of his current tales targeted on the continued IDF operation in Nuseirat, the place his own residence was situated, and the place Israeli intelligence had discovered he was holding three of the 4 hostages rescued on Saturday close to a refugee camp.
The Palestine Chronicle is a non-profit organisation based mostly in Washington State that works to supply every day information to Gaza.
The outlet claims that its workforce “consists {of professional} journalists and revered writers and authors who don’t communicate on behalf of any political occasion or champion any particular political agenda”.
The organisation confirmed on Sunday that Aljamal was a contributor reporting on the bottom in Gaza, however made no point out that he was holding three hostages.
The outlet didn’t instantly reply to The Publish’s request for remark.
Together with the three males, Israeli forces additionally rescued Noa Argamani, the 26-year-old Israeli lady who grew to become the terrified face of the October 7 terrorist assault on the Jewish state.
Israel touted the rescue as a hit, and estimated that there have been “below 100” casualties on account of the raid.
Nevertheless, the Hamas-run ministry of well being alleged that 274 had been killed, together with civilians.
Each Israeli and American officers have blamed the casualties over Hamas’ tactic of holding hostages and munitions in civilian areas.
“The Palestinian individuals are going via sheer hell on this battle as a result of Hamas is working in a approach that places them within the crossfire that holds hostages proper within the coronary heart of crowded civilian areas, that places army emplacements proper within the coronary heart of crowded civilian areas,” US Nationwide Safety Advisor Jake Sullivan mentioned on CNN Sunday.
Greater than 36,000 individuals have been killed because the warfare in Gaza started, in response to the Hamas-run ministry of well being, which does differentiate between terrorists and civilians.
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