The IDF said Wednesday it had uncovered documents in the Gaza Strip that show six active Al Jazeera reporters are operatives in the Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad groups, APA reports citing The Times of Israel.
The journalists were named by the IDF as Anas al-Sharif, Alaa Salameh, Hossam Shabat, Ashraf al-Sarraj, Ismail Abu Omar and Talal al-Arrouqi.
According to the IDF, al-Sharif has served as head of a rocket launching squad and a member of a Nukhba Force company in Hamas’s Nuseirat Battalion; Salameh as the deputy head of the Shaboura Battalion’s propaganda unit in Islamic Jihad; Shabat as a sniper in Hamas’s Beit Hanoun Battalion; al-Sarraj as a member of Islamic Jihad’s Bureij Battalion; Abu Omar as a training company commander in the East Khan Younis Battalion (and was wounded in an Israeli airstrike several months ago); and al-Arrouqi as a team commander in Hamas’s Nuseirat Battalion.
The military released the documents it said showed personnel spreadsheets, lists of training courses, telephone books and salary documents.
It said the documents “unequivocally prove” that the journalists functioned as members of Hamas and Islamic Jihad’s respective military wings.
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