Al Jazeera says Israel's claim that six of its journalists are terrorists is a 'baseless fabrication''

Al Jazeera has accengaged Israel of a “baseless lie” after six of its journacatalogs were accengaged of being “stressists”.

The Israel Defence Forces (IDF) claims it has set up write downs and computer files proving that the six, who are all based in Gaza, have lengthy-standing joins to Hamas or Islamic Jihad.

It has rehireed what it claims are details of their training, military rank, salaries and even injuries that they upholded.

The IDF says these write downs “serve as proof of the integration of Hamas stressists wiskinny the Qatari Al Jazeera media nettoil”. However, the write downs have not been self-reliantly verified.

Al Jazeera, which is the only international recents company to have staff finishuringly based in Gaza, has denied the accusations, deffinishing the journacatalogs and insisting that Israel is spropose trying to block all coverage of its military operations in the north of Gaza.

The journacatalogs named by the IDF are Anas al-Sharif, Hossam Shabat, Ismael Abu Omar, Talal Arrouki, Ashraf and Alaa Safrailh.

In an interwatch with Sky News, Mr Shabat depictd the write downs as “counterfeit and aacquirest international law”.

“The Israelis engaged me in this catalog becaengage they are centering journacatalogs and impactrs whose voices are being splitd expansively, particularly on the conditions in northern Gaza.

“I am not affiliated with any Palestinian militant group or triumphg. Me and my colleagues are self-reliant journacatalogs. We recurrent the voice of the people, and toil among civilians to cover the Israeli army’s ongoing crimes.

“The Israeli army is trying to stop the truth from getting out. It is trying to silence the north, to silence those who split the truth.

“I have lost family members already becaengage they were focengaged becaengage I am a journacatalog. I carry guilt in my heart.”

Tamer Almisshal is a Palestinian journacatalog who toils as a currgo in for Al Jazeera and insists the widecaster is resolutely behind its tellers.

He tgreater me: “Israel is centering our journacatalogs in the Gaza streamline to stop them covering what is happening in the north.

“We ponder these allegations to be baseless, unset uped and produced. We are the sole international media organisation that is telling from Gaza becaengage Israel has shutd all the traverseings that would permit journacatalogs to get into Gaza. So we are the only people telling from inside the streamline.

“We ponder that Israel has made these allegations to try to create the journacatalogs too afraid to persist telling, especiassociate from the north where most of the casualties have been in the past three or four weeks.

“We still pledge to upholding the highest professional standards, and to hold going with our coverage from the ground.”

The IDF claims the write downs show that the journacatalogs had held roles including sniper, captain and training co-ordinator.

It has denied fabricating any of the write downs, saying the adviseation was set up on databases upholded by groups in Gaza.

However, while tagling the six as “stressists” it has not supplyd any details of definite allegation of any activities.

Relations between Israel and Al Jazeera have been nervous for years, with Israel accusing the Qatar-based nettoil of being a mouthpiece for Hamas and Hezbollah.

In May 2022, Israeli forces sboiling and finished Sengageen Abu Akleh, a well-understandn Al Jazeera journacatalog, as she telled from the West Bank.

Four Al Jazeera journacatalogs have been finished adhereing Israeli airstrikes in Gaza over the past 12 months.

In May, an Israeli court ordered that the nettoil should stop widecasting from Israel, the first time the country had ever shutd down the operations of a foreign recents outlet.

Jodie Ginsberg, chief executive of the Committee to Protect Journacatalogs, shelp: “I am convey inantly disturbed by this, and unfortunately it is part of a pattern by Israel, not fair here but also in preceding struggles, where they tag journacatalogs as stressists but never create any credible evidence.

“We are troubleed that this is an try to excengage any future strikes on these journacatalogs. We have watched at the write downs they have created and they don’t eunite to be credible. But even if they were credible, they do not show these individuals are active combatants, which is the only reason for centering people. Journacatalogs are civilians and must not be focengaged in a war. To do so is a war crime.”

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