Sometimes, the established media can be so much of a hurry to garner ratings, they almost give the
whole game away on the secret designs of how a war is constructed!
whole game away on the secret designs of how a war is constructed!
Quote:Gaza 'doctor' who raged at Israel in Western media 'is really Hamas colonel'GB News Source:
'A Gazan "doctor" who launched a blistering attack on Israel in two New York Times (NYT)
op-eds has been revealed as a Hamas colonel, according to an Israeli watchdog organisation
and the IDF.
NGO Monitor, a Jerusalem-based watchdog group, has said that Hussam Abu Safiya was
pictured sporting the terror group's military uniform alongside high-ranking Hamas members
in 2016.
Hussam Abu Safiya.
The image of Mr Safiya was posted by Gaza Medical Services, an organisation overseen by
the Hamas-run health ministry, on its social media. The Hamas officials pictured alongside
him were celebrating the completion of the Kamal Adwan Hospital in Gaza.
According to Gaza Medical Services' post, the high-ranking members present included Director
of Military Medical Services Saeed Saoudi, National Security Forces commander Naeem
Al-Ghoul and General Abu Obaida Al-Jarrah.
Just weeks after the October 7 attacks, which left more than 1,200 Israelis dead, Mr Safiya
penned a op-ed in the NYT, with another written in December 2024. In one piece, the so-called
"doctor" wrote: “We are suffering and paying the price of the genocide that is happening to our
people here in the northern Gaza Strip."
NGO Monitor senior researcher Vincent Chebat launched a scathing attack on the US outlet.
He fumed: “Those who platformed Abu Safiya must do some serious soul-searching, and figure
out how they ended up promoting the propaganda of a literal Hamas terrorist."
In each op-ed, the newspaper referred to him as a "paediatrician and the director of Kamal Adwan
Hospital in northern Gaza”. Neither the NYT nor Mr Safiya mentioned his links to the terror group
in either piece. However, the Gaza Strip Medical Services labelled him a colonel in a social media
post in 2020.
A spokesman for the IDF affirmed that the Gazan was a Hamas member and accused the hospital
of being a hotbed of activity for the terror group and Palestinian Islamic Jihad militants. However,
neither the Israeli watchdog nor the IDF have claimed Mr Safiya has been involved in any acts of
terror. Throughout the conflict, Israeli authorities have accused Hamas-linked Palestinians of
masquerading as doctors and journalists for propaganda purposes.
At the beginning of the war, the NYT said a "deluge of online propaganda and disinformation" had
released "larger than anything seen before". The US outlet accused China, Russia and Iran of
deploying covert influence campaigns to negatively portray Israel and manufacture support for
Hamas.
James Rubin, from the US State Department's Global Engagement Centre, characterised coverage
of the conflict as "an undeclared information war with authoritarian countries". In December 2023,
BBC Verify journalist Shayan Sardarizadeh said he had never seen a conflict "where so much
disinformation is posted with the direct intent of dehumanising real victims of war on both sides".
And Muhammad Idrees Ahmad, the director of journalism at the University of Essex, slammed
"cynical actors" for falsely posting clips from the Syrian civil war and claiming it was footage
from inside Gaza...'
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