Israeli ‘smear campaign’ targets journalists, threatens safety, Al Jazeera says

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Al Jazeera denies Israeli claims that its journalist killed in Gaza was a Hamas operative, condemning the accusations as baseless and aimed to justify violence against its media staff. The incident has sparked mourning for the slain cameraman Ahmed Wishah amid ongoing tensions in the Palestinian territory.

Al Jazeera on Sunday rejected Israeli accusations that one of its journalists, killed in Gaza a day earlier, was a Hamas operative, as family and colleagues mourned the cameraman in the Palestinian territory. The Qatar-based network said in a statement that it “condemns the Israeli occupation army’s baseless accusations, which seek to justify its crimes against Al Jazeera journalists and cameramen in Gaza, most recently the killing of cameraman Ahmed Wishah”. The Israeli military said in a...