The Israel Defense Forces said Sunday that an Al Jazeera cameraman killed in an
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KABOOM!...
in the central 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
oppressionand
disproportionate response...
Strip earlier in the day was a member of the 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...
terror group, as the 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...
i-funded network condemned the strike.
In a statement, the military said it carried out a dronezap against a group of Hamas
..a regional Iranian catspaw,...and Islamic Jihad terror operatives at a command center, based out of the offices of the Gaza civil defense organization in Nuseirat.
"The compound was used by the gunnies to plan and execute terror acts against IDF troops in the immediate time frame," the military said.
According to the IDF, several terror operatives were killed in the strike, including Ahmad al-Louh, an Al Jazeera cameraman whom the military accused of previously serving as a platoon commander in Islamic Jihad’s central Gaza brigade.
The IDF said it took steps to mitigate civilian harm in the strike, including by using precision munitions, aerial surveillance and other intelligence.
Al Jazeera, meanwhile, said in a statement that it "condemns in the strongest terms the killing of its cameraman, Ahmad Baker al-Louh, 39, by the Israeli occupation forces," whom the network said was "brutally killed in an airstrike that targeted a civil defense post in the market area."
The network added that Louh’s killing came "just days after the targeting of his house" by Israeli forces who "utterly destroyed" it — an accusation to which the IDF did not specifically respond.
The network accused Israel of "systematic killing of journalists in cold blood," as well as "evasion of responsibilities under international humanitarian law."
Meanwhile,
...back at the wrecked scow, a single surviver held tightly to the smashed prow...
the strip’s Hamas-governed civil defense agency front man Mahmud Bassal confirmed Louh had been killed in the strike on the Nuseirat camp, which he said also claimed the lives of three members of the rescue agency.
In a statement, Hamas called Louh’s killing an "liquidation" and a "war crime," describing it as "part of a systematic targeting of journalists in Gaza, aimed at intimidating them and deterring them."
It was not the first time an Al Jazeera employee has been killed by Israeli forces amid the ongoing war in Gaza, which began when the Hamas terror group attacked Israel on October 7 last year, killing some 1,200 people and taking 251 hostages.
In January, Israel said an Al Jazeera staff journalist as well as a freelancer killed in an airstrike in Gaza were terror operatives.
The following month, it accused another journalist with the channel, who was maimed in a separate strike, of being a deputy company commander with Hamas.
And in October, the IDF said it had uncovered documents in Gaza that show six active Al Jazeera news hounds were operatives in the Hamas and Islamic Jihad.
Al Jazeera has fiercely denied
No, no! Certainly not!
Israel’s allegations and accused it of systematically targeting Al Jazeera employees in the Gaza Strip.
In April, the Israeli government passed an emergency law to take the network off the air and block its broadcasts for violating national security. Courts have since upheld the legislation, citing confidential information.