Three of the hostages released yesterday by Israel would have been held prisoner by a certain Abdullah Jamalan agent of Hamas, in his family’s home in the Nuseirat refugee camp. The Israeli media wrote that Jamal was in the past spokesperson for the Hamas Ministry of Labor in Gaza and that even before that he collaborated with several newspapersalso writing an article for Al Jazeera in 2019. The Qatari broadcaster denied the news, explaining that the man in question “does not come from Al Jazeera, has never worked for Al Jazeera and does not appear to have worked for Al Jazeera either now or in the past“. For the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), the story of Jamal “it is further proof that the terrorist organization Hamas uses the civilian population as a human shield“.
The role of the alleged Al Jazeera reporter
As reported by Ynetrumors circulated that Jamal would be a corresponding from Gaza by Al Jazeera. For their part, the IDF confirmed that the hostages released yesterday, Almog Meir Jan, Andrey Kozlov and Shlomi Ziv, were held prisoner by Abdullah Jamal himself. “Security forces will continue to act in every possible way to return the abductees“, added the IDF, underlining that the man previously mentioned, “he had worked as a photographer for Al Jazeera and published articles in English on Palestine Chronicle“.
According to the IDF, he wrote The Times of Israelthe three hostages were held by “Aljamal” together with his family and were rescued by special forces. Earlier today, rumors circulated about Abdallah Aljamal following a post by Rami Abdu, head of the Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor, who said soldiers entered the Aljamals’ home during the raid and killed several family members, including Abdallah and his father, Dr. Ahmed Aljamal.
Abdallah”he was previously a spokesperson for Hamas’s Ministry of Labor in Gaza and has collaborated with several news outlets in the past and reportedly wrote an article for Al Jazeera in 2019, sparking rumors that he was a correspondent from Gaza for the Qatari broadcaster“, added the Israeli online newspaper.
“Releasing the hostages is a moral obligation”
These rumors were dry denials from Al Jazeera. Al Jazeera’s Jerusalem bureau chief, Omar al-Walidit was very clear: “We don’t know him and all the rumors that have been spread are empty of content and are not true at all“. Yet the news reported by the Israeli media, waiting to be confirmed or denied, has already created controversy after controversy. Also in light of the efforts made by Tel Aviv to free the hostages still held in the Gaza Strip.
In the last few hours, to free 4 hostages held for 8 months in Gaza, Israeli special forces used heavy weapons in the refugee camp of Nuseirat, and took them away by helicopter. One of the officers involved in the action died, while the Hamas Ministry of Health provided the figure of 274 dead and 698 wounded, reporting a “massacre“collateral of the military operation. Among the victims, according to Hamas, there are at least 64 children, 57 women and 37 elderly people.
Israel keeps repeating that bringing the hostages home is a moral obligation. The IDF Chief of Staff, Herzi Halevi, speaking to soldiers during a visit to Deir al Balah, in the central Gaza Strip, praised the actions of the IDF, Shin Bet and Yamam police forces. “We know that we are taking enormous risks and that we have to make fatal decisions, and these risks are the risk of human life.
It’s not a gamble, it’s a calculated risk and I know we have the highest quality commanders and the confidence to conduct courageous operations for worthy targets,” he concluded. The race against time continues.
