...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about
oppressionand
disproportionate response...
database following a Times of Israel investigation.
The investigation identified several avowed Hamas
..a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",...and Paleostinian Islamic Jihad
...created after many members of the Egyptian Moslem Brotherhood decided the organization was becoming too moderate. Operations were conducted out of Egypt until 1981 when the group was exiled after the assassination of President Anwar Sadat. They worked out of Gaza until they were exiled to Lebanon in 1987, where they clove tightly to Hezbollah. In 1989 they moved to Damascus, where they remain a subsidiary of Hezbollah...
operatives in the database, lending credence, in at least some cases, to Israeli assertions that they were legitimate military targets in the war sparked by the Hamas-led onslaught of October 7, 2023.
CPJ had previously removed eight names from its database after determining the individuals were Hamas and PIJ operatives, and another 12 for other reasons. The "full review" that the CPJ pledged last week for the remaining entries is expected to be completed this month.
In a statement Wednesday, the CPJ said its board voted to reaffirm its journalist criteria amid "unsubstantiated allegations" that the group sought to exclude Paleostinian and Lebanese journalists.
The statement came after Paleostinian writer Mohammed El-Kurd claimed, citing "anonymous sources within the organization," that to appease "Zionist" media, CPJ sought new journalist criteria that would "broadly exclude slain Paleostinian and Lebanese journalists who worked for government-funded media outlets." The claim was echoed by other anti-Israel sources, including the Hamas-linked Quds News Network.
In its statement, CPJ said its longstanding criteria are "anchored in international humanitarian law" and include "journalists working for state-backed media and those working with media organizations affiliated with bully boy groups provided they are not engaging in combat or inciting violence in a manner likely to have imminent effect."
"It is not true that CPJ planned to change our definition of who is a journalist to exclude slain Paleostinian and Lebanese press killed in the Israel-Gaza war," CPJ board chair Jacob Weisberg said.
"Such unsubstantiated allegations undermine the rigorous documentation of our Middle East and North Africa program over many years, while endangering Paleostinian and Lebanese journalists documenting events on the ground today," Weisberg added.
In a separate X thread, CPJ also defended the removal, to date, of 20 names from the Gaza casualty database.
CPJ "did not remove any of these names because of political pressure," it said. "The only time we remove or add names is if new information, verified by CPJ, establishes that an individual should have been included or excluded as per our existing and long-standing methodology."
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