How the Media Is Helping Hamas
by Bassam Tawil
• July 27, 2014 at 5:00 am
"We know that Hamas uses
human shields. But why would you report this when you are sitting in the
middle of the Gaza Strip, surrounded by Hamas gunmen?" — Reporter
covering the war, who asked not to be identified.
Besides the human shields story
there is another item that the international media choose to ignore: the
extrajudicial execution of Palestinian "collaborators" during the
last two weeks. The executions were reportedly carried out in the most brutal
manner. Hamas has also been shooting suspected "collaborators" in
the legs to prevent them from moving around.
It is the media that is helping
Hamas get away with war crimes.
This
photo from October 2013 shows a gallows constructed by Hamas in Gaza,
prepared for an execution. (Image source: Gaza Interior Ministry)
Hamas and its Palestinian and Western propagandists continue to insist
that the Islamist movement does not use civilians in the Gaza Strip as human
shields during war. But the truth is that Hamas itself has admitted that it
does use innocent civilians as human shields, to increase the number of
casualties and defame Israel in the eyes of the international community.
This admission, however, has, of course, gone unnoticed by most Western
journalists and analysts reporting on the war in the Gaza Strip. Many Western
journalists in the Gaza Strip choose to ignore the fact that Hamas is forcing
civilians to serve as human shields. They also seem to ignore the fact that
senior Hamas officials and militiamen have found shelter among civilians and
in hospitals, especially Gaza City's Shifa Hospital. Is it really a
coincidence that Hamas spokesmen gave interviews to the Arab and Western
media from the premises of Shifa Hospital? Why hasn't anyone even noted it as
odd?
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