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Following Al Jazeera‘s denials that its staff had ties to terrorism and the military wing of Hamas, an IDF spokesman, speaking in Arabic, presented new documents confirming these ties.

In his statements, he noted that the data shows the funding and support that Hamas receives from the Qatari television channel. In the 2022 document, Hamas explicitly admits that it provided Al Jazeera with clear instructions on how to cover the failed rocket launch by Islamic Jihad terrorists that resulted in the deaths of several Gazan citizens.

In particular, the channel was instructed not to call this event a “massacre”, as well as to limit the number of photographs from the scene and to prevent criticism of Hamas terrorists from participants in discussions on the channel.

In another document from the same year, Hamas issued specific guidelines to Al Jazeera journalists on how to cover Operation Dawn against Islamic Jihad. These instructions emphasized that reporters should refrain from criticizing the combat capabilities of the terrorists, many of whose missiles failed to fire and fell in Gaza.

Another document, dated 2023, indicates that Hamas established a direct telephone connection with the Al Jazeera network, which enabled the organization to confidentially interact with the channel in emergency situations.

Previously, Cursor wrote that the IDF presented intelligence data and a number of documents discovered in the Gaza Strip, which confirm the military connections of six Al-Jazeera journalists – Anas Al-Sharif, Ala Salama, Hassam Shabat, Ashraf Al-Sarraj, Ismail Abu Amra and Talal Al-Aruki – with the terrorist groups Hamas and Islamic Jihad.