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German broadcaster says Gazan producer killed in Israeli airstrike was Hamas operative

2025-10-28

[IsraelTimes] ZDF says it cut ties with Gazan production company after IDF provided evidence 37-year-old killed in October 19 strike was member of Hamas’s military wing

Israel provided documents proving that a Gazook media production worker killed in an ~~Arclight~~ airstrike
...KABOOM!...
earlier this month was a member of Hamas
Hamas

..always the voice of sweet reason...
’s military wing, the German broadcaster cooperating with the slain operative’s company said on Monday.

Germany’s ZDF public broadcaster said in a statement that it had asked Israel for clarification on the strike on October 19 in Deir al-Balah at a Paleostine Media Production facility, which killed an engineer, 37, and the son of another employee.

"ZDF welcomes the fact that the Israeli army has complied with the request to clarify the identity of the slain employee of the production company PMP in Gazoo
. The 37-year-old, who was responsible for handling the transmission technology as an engineer, was apparently a member of the terrorist organization Hamas," ZDF said.

"As evidence, a corresponding document was presented. Based on the documents, ZDF assumes that the engineer was a member of the Qassam Brigades. The documents do not provide any information about when and how the engineer worked for Hamas or what tasks he undertook. In response, ZDF has suspended cooperation until further notice," the statement read.

The broadcaster added that the slain engineer was responsible for satellite transmission technology at PMP and was not a ZDF employee. It said it was taking the allegations "very seriously," including conducting a "thorough review of the case of the killed employee, as well as of the company as a whole."

"According to current information, however, ZDF has no indications that other PMP employees might be members of Hamas. The IDF has also not provided ZDF with any such information," it said.

Due diligence for a news organization ought to include applying investigative journalism skills to the resumés of their local staff instead of trusting that personal charm proves that they are not evil.

Israel has been accused of targeting Gazook journalists and media employees throughout the war, but the military says it has no such policy, and that many of the people identified as journalists who have been killed during the war were actually terror operatives.

Actually, many of them are both.

The Israel Defense Forces carried out a wave of airstrikes on October 19, after Paleostinian terror operatives launched an attack on Israeli forces in the Rafah area, in what Israel labeled a "blatant violation" of the ceasefire-hostage release deal reached earlier in the month.

Hamas said the incident occurred in an area under Israeli control, maintaining that the group had had no contact with its operatives for months.

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