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It seems the intrepid Fox News reporter Trey Yingst has once again taken to the airwaves to castigate Israel, this time accusing them of killing "two Palestinian journalists, Mohammed Mansour and Hossam Shabat."
Of course, Yingst conveniently omits some rather pertinent details - namely that Mansour worked for the terror outfit Palestinian Islamic Jihad's propaganda arm Filastin Al-Youm, while Israeli intelligence revealed months ago that Shabat moonlighted as a sniper for a Hamas battalion.
But why let inconvenient facts get in the way of a good story?
Appearing on America's Newsroom this Monday morn, Fox's chief foreign correspondent solemnly intoned about "new developments out of Gaza today, where two Palestinian journalists, Mohammed Mansour and Hossam Shabat, were killed by the Israelis." He went on to lament that "Last year, 124 journalists were killed around the world, two-thirds of them in Gaza," to which host Bill Hemmer could only grimly reply, "More to come, unfortunately."
Yingst doubled down on Twitter, mournfully noting that "Palestinian journalists Mohammed Mansour and Hossam Shabat were killed by Israel today in Gaza" and that "124 journalist were killed around the world in 2024, around two-thirds of them were Palestinian." Stirring stuff. One can almost hear the violins swelling.
Except Shabat's Hamas ties are hardly news.
A month later Israel released declassified intelligence from documents unearthed in Gaza confirming that six Al Jazeera journalists, Shabat among them, were in fact terrorists tied to Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad. The files detailed training courses, salaries, personnel rosters - including Shabat's role as a sniper in Hamas's Beit Hanoun Battalion. Fox's own LiveNow covered it under the banner "Israel-Hamas war: IDF exposes Al Jazeera journalists as Hamas terrorists." Anchor Stephanie Coueignoux breathlessly shared the "breaking news" that "Six Al Jazeera journalists have been exposed as Hamas and Islamic Jihad terrorists."
As for Mansour, he plied his trade for Filastin Al-Youm, a mouthpiece of Palestinian Islamic Jihad that Israel's Shin Bet says works to "incite the population, calling for terrorist attacks against the State of Israel and its citizens." Israeli forces shuttered its West Bank HQ back in 2016, nabbing its director, though it continued spewing venom from Gaza.
Neither Fox nor Yingst had the stones to comment. Quelle surprise.
This all unfolded as Israel resumed operations in Gaza last week after Hamas nixed a US-brokered ceasefire. Monday's strikes took out Hamas finance chief Ismail Barhoum as well as Shabat and Mansour, the former killed in his car in a precision hit while moonlighting for Qatar-funded Al Jazeera.
Yingst has made a cottage industry of spotlighting Gaza journalists killed in Israel's operation.
Appearing on America's Newsroom this Monday morn, Fox's chief foreign correspondent solemnly intoned about "new developments out of Gaza today, where two Palestinian journalists, Mohammed Mansour and Hossam Shabat, were killed by the Israelis." He went on to lament that "Last year, 124 journalists were killed around the world, two-thirds of them in Gaza," to which host Bill Hemmer could only grimly reply, "More to come, unfortunately."
Yingst doubled down on Twitter, mournfully noting that "Palestinian journalists Mohammed Mansour and Hossam Shabat were killed by Israel today in Gaza" and that "124 journalist were killed around the world in 2024, around two-thirds of them were Palestinian." Stirring stuff. One can almost hear the violins swelling.
Except Shabat's Hamas ties are hardly news.
As far back as September, the diligent Egyptian-British researcher Khaled Hassan uncovered Shabat's social media posts from that fateful October 7th in 2023, replete with celebratory captions and emojis alongside photos of Hamas terrorists infiltrating Israel and returning triumphant to Gaza.
"All of Beit Hanon is at the garage, receiving the kidnapped soldiers," he crowed in one missive about the Israeli hostages, including a 9-month-old babe. "The heroes are in Beit Hanon," he gushed beside a snap of the returning killers.
A month later Israel released declassified intelligence from documents unearthed in Gaza confirming that six Al Jazeera journalists, Shabat among them, were in fact terrorists tied to Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad. The files detailed training courses, salaries, personnel rosters - including Shabat's role as a sniper in Hamas's Beit Hanoun Battalion. Fox's own LiveNow covered it under the banner "Israel-Hamas war: IDF exposes Al Jazeera journalists as Hamas terrorists." Anchor Stephanie Coueignoux breathlessly shared the "breaking news" that "Six Al Jazeera journalists have been exposed as Hamas and Islamic Jihad terrorists."
As for Mansour, he plied his trade for Filastin Al-Youm, a mouthpiece of Palestinian Islamic Jihad that Israel's Shin Bet says works to "incite the population, calling for terrorist attacks against the State of Israel and its citizens." Israeli forces shuttered its West Bank HQ back in 2016, nabbing its director, though it continued spewing venom from Gaza.
Neither Fox nor Yingst had the stones to comment. Quelle surprise.
This all unfolded as Israel resumed operations in Gaza last week after Hamas nixed a US-brokered ceasefire. Monday's strikes took out Hamas finance chief Ismail Barhoum as well as Shabat and Mansour, the former killed in his car in a precision hit while moonlighting for Qatar-funded Al Jazeera.
Beyond his October 7th paeans and Hamas ties, Shabat peddled lurid propaganda, falsely alleging Israeli "occupation army" atrocities - from soldiers sexually assaulting a pregnant Palestinian woman before her family to using "new weapons that cause bodies to evaporate on the scene."
Yingst has made a cottage industry of spotlighting Gaza journalists killed in Israel's operation.
Just this month at the Radio Television Digital News Association's First Amendment Awards gala, he waxed eloquent: "I would like to give special recognition to the brave Palestinian journalists in Gaza, who have risked and often given their lives to practice our craft. We live in a dangerous time of attack on journalists, of misinformation, and efforts to silence those holding truth to power. Our work is more important now than ever." Cue the applause. And pass the sick bag.
Perhaps it's time to take a pass on Fox News and check out other sources such as The Daily Wire, Newsmax, Townhall, Breitbart, and blogs [like mine, hopefully].
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