Fox News accuses Israel of killing "two Palestinian Journalists" when, in fact, they were Hamas terrorists

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. 

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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Al Jazeera "reporter" on Hamas payroll eliminated by IAF airstrike

The world knew him as a reporter in the Middle East war between Hamas and Israel, but Hamas files identified him as a sniper in the terror group's Beit Hanoun Battalion.

Al Jazeera 'reporter' Hossam Shabat, who was also a Hamas sniper, was killed in an Israeli airstrike, the Qatari network reported on Monday. There has been no official statement from Israel about this Hamasshole, as is their practice.

So here we are, once again, peering into the grim abyss of Gaza, where the lines between journalism and jihad blur with a disturbing ease. Reports trickling out of that benighted strip tell us that Mohammed Mansour, a scribe for Palestinian Islamic Jihad’s Falstin Al-Yom channel, met his end in an airstrike. One wonders if the distinction even matters in a place so steeped in blood and duplicity.

Consider the case of Shabat, a name that surfaced in October alongside five other Al Jazeera so called reporters—Anas Al-Sharif, Ala’ Salama, Ashraf al Sarraj, Ismail Abu Amr, and Talal al-Arrouqi—all unmasked as card-carrying members of Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad. 

How do we know this? 

Because Israeli troops, rummaging through the detritus of Gaza, stumbled upon captured personnel tables, terrorist training rosters, phone books, and salary documents—paper trails of scumbaggery. Shabat, it turns out, wasn’t just scribbling notes; he was a sniper in Hamas’s Beit Hanoun Battalion, a detail that lends a certain clarity to his byline.

The rot goes deeper. 

Other files pried from Gaza’s clutches reveal Al Jazeera’s cozy arrangement with Hamas—taking cues on how to spin specific incidents, even setting up a secure hotline so the terror outfit could whisper directly into the network’s ear during emergencies. This isn’t journalism; it’s a megaphone for murderers. 

Israel, quite sensibly, moved to slam the door shut on Al Jazeera’s operations in May—revoking press credentials, seizing transmitters, blocking websites. The ban isn’t eternal, mind you, just a 90-day renewable purge, a flicker of pragmatism in a world gone mad.

The push to muzzle Al Jazeera gained steam back in February when Mohamed Washah, another of their intrepid 'reporters,' was exposed as a Hamas commander. His laptop, fished out of northern Gaza by Israeli soldiers, revealed his starring role in the group’s anti-armor missile systems—a sideline, presumably, to his day job filing dispatches. 

Then, in August, the IDF released files confirming that Al Jazeera’s Ismail al-Ghoul—lovely name, that fits him so well—was a Hamas engineer in the Gaza City Brigade, his credentials etched in a 2021 dossier alongside thousands of other terrorists. The evidence piles up like bodies.

By October, Al Jazeera was openly accused of imperiling Israeli soldiers, broadcasting details of troop assemblies with a savage, deliberate recklessness. The Cabinet, roused at last, green-lit emergency regulations to shutter the network’s operations in Israel. The Tel Aviv District Court, in a rare moment of lucidity, nodded its assent in July, declaring the Qatari outlet’s broadcasts “a real violation of state security.” 

No kidding, Sherlock.

And all this traces back to that dark dawn of October 7, when Hamas unleashed hell on Israeli communities near the Gaza border—1,200 souls slaughtered, 251 Israelis and foreigners dragged off as hostages. Of the 59 still unaccounted for, 36 are presumed dead, their fates a grim footnote to this macabre saga.

The numbers numb, but the reality sears. Al Jazeera, with its pious pretensions, stands complicit—not merely reporting the war, but waging it by proxy. As the poet Auden once wrote, “Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table.” 

In Gaza, it seems, it also files copy for the evening news.

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