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2026-06-21 Israel-Palestine-Jordan
IDF strikes in Gaza said to kill at least 11, including Al Jazeera cameraman who was Hamas sniper
[IsraelTimes] Army confirms targeting Ahmed Washah, accuses him of being a Hamas sniper 2 months after killing his brother and fellow Al Jazeera journalist who was allegedly a terror commander

Gazoo
...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 oppression and disproportionate response...
health officials said Israeli strikes and gunfire on Saturday killed at least 11 people, including an Al Jazeera cameraman whom Israel accused of being a Hamas
..always the voice of sweet reason...
operative, in the latest violence to rock the coastal territory despite a ceasefire.

Israel and Hamas trade near-daily accusations of truce violations in the Gaza Strip, as progress on permanently ending the war sparked by the terror group’s October 7, 2023, attack remains stalled.

The Hamas-controlled civil defense agency reported six people were killed in separate attacks later Saturday, among them three people in the Bureij refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip, including a local photographer later identified as an employee of Qatar
...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi...
’s Al Jazeera.

"Ahmed Washah, a cameraman for Al Jazeera, has been killed in an Israeli Arclight airstrike
...KABOOM!...
that targeted a house," the broadcaster said, while denouncing the attack as a "heinous crime."

The Israel Defense Forces confirmed targeting Washah, saying he served in Hamas’s military wing as a sniper operative. It said the two others killed alongside him in the Bureij area were also Hamas operatives.
Israel always has Hamas personnel files and social media photos to back up their claims.
"Alongside his work as an Al Jazeera photojournalist in recent years, Washah was an operative in Hamas’s military wing. In recent months, he advanced sniper attack plans and additional terrorist activities against IDF troops operating in the Gaza Strip," the IDF said in a statement.

"Due to his recent military activity and the threat he posed to IDF troops operating in the area, he was eliminated in a precise aerial strike," the military said.

The IDF said he worked alongside his brother, Mohammed Washah, a "key" Hamas operative who also worked for Al Jazeera. Mohammed Washah was killed in an Israeli strike in April.

Earlier, the civil defense agency said an overnight Israeli airstrike on an apartment building in the Sabra neighborhood of Gaza City killed four members of the al-Safadi family, including the husband, wife and their two daughters, according to It said the strike also injured 12 others.

The IDF said it struck a terror operative, without elaborating.

Gaza City’s al-Shifa hospital confirmed receiving the bodies of four members of the al-Safadi family, including two children.

Al-Shifa hospital, meanwhile, said it had received one body following a separate Israeli dronezap near an intersection in the north of Gaza City.

In another incident, Israeli forces allegedly shot and killed a woman in Beit Lahiya town further north, according to medics.

Later, an Israeli airstrike killed at least one person and maimed eight others in Khan Younis, south of the enclave.

The IDF did not immediately respond to a request for comment on those reports.

At least 1,012 Paleostinians have been killed in Gaza since the ceasefire took effect on October 10 last year, according to the territory’s Hamas-run health ministry, whose figures don’t differentiate between civilians and combatants.

The IDF has reported five deaths in its ranks during the same period. # id) ?>
Posted by trailing wife 2026-06-21 00:00|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| [1916 views ]  Top
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1 Sounds like a 'good shooting, guys' event. Warms my heart, it does.
Posted by Whiskey Mike 2026-06-21 02:57||   2026-06-21 02:57|| Front Page Top

2 I guess the "camera man " does die sometimes!
Posted by Chris 2026-06-21 05:56||   2026-06-21 05:56|| Front Page Top

3 There is a movie, little known I think, about a cameraman in the 173rd Abn Bde in RVN. The movie (low budget I think) is called "84 Charlie Mopic". Also listed as "84C MoPic". I thought it was a great movie. I have the DVD (somewhere). Worth a look if you can find it on Amazon (I checked, it is there) or some other streamer. 'Gritty' doesn't do it justice. I was an 11B4P in the 173rd in RVN; the movie feels real. Worth a look.
Posted by Whiskey Mike 2026-06-21 07:18||   2026-06-21 07:18|| Front Page Top

4 The real story here is that it's a shame that dumping on the media has depressed wages so much that news crews have to take a second job. (per CNN)
Posted by Mercutio 2026-06-21 08:58||   2026-06-21 08:58|| Front Page Top

5 ^ Heh
Posted by Frank G 2026-06-21 08:59||   2026-06-21 08:59|| Front Page Top

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