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Hamas Used Main Hospital As Command Center - Journalists Feared Reporting Story WND Broke 1 Month Ago

Friday, August 8, 2014 11:09

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A reporter from India’s NDTV at the Al-Shifa hospital in Gaza

Aaron Klein / WND

It was an open secret among foreign reporters that Hamas used the Gaza Strip’s main hospital as its command center, reported Yedioth Aharonot, Israel’s largest daily newspaper.

The paper, citing numerous foreign reporters, said journalists reporting from Gaza did not tell their audiences of Hamas’s use of the Al-Shifa hospital because they feared retaliation from Hamas. The newspaper further documented the climate of fear that Hamas instilled in Gaza-based reporters.

The day the conflict started last month, WND became the first and, until now, virtually the only news media outlet to report top Hamas leaders used the Al-Shifa hospital as its command center.

Now, a foreign reporter has told Yedioth “it is an open secret that Hamas uses Al-Shifa hospital as its command center” but “reporters in Gaza would not report that out of fear that it would endanger them.”

Yedioth quoted another journalist, Palestinian reporter Radjaa Abu Dagga, who said Hamas summoned him to answer for some of his reporting, accusing him of working for an Israeli newspaper.

Dagga said the interrogation by Hamas took place at the Al-Shifa hospital. He said Hamas took his passport and threatened him, forcing the removal of an article published in the French newspaper Libération.

Other reporters explained to Yedioth that Hamas’s spokesmen only agreed to be interviewed in the courtyard of Al-Shifa hospital. This was done likely for safety reasons, with the patients serving as human shields. It also created the impression that only civilians were wounded in Israeli attacks, since civilians were streaming into the hospital for treatment.

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http://www.wnd.com/2014/08/hamas-used-main-hospital-as-command-center/

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