Hamas directs Al Jazeera’s coverage of Gaza, suppressing opposition to Palestine, research center finds
Hamas tried to set up a direct line with Al Jazeera’s offices in Doha, according to Meir Amit Intelligence and the Heatherm Information Center.
Documents uncovered in Gaza revealed that Hamas has been issuing orders to Qatari State-Run Media AL Jazeera, according to Meir Amit Intelligence and Hearir Amit Intelligence and Hearir Amit Counter.
From the documents, the research center found that the APASAs said that the Hamas police directed the organized names and stories with Al Jazeera to create unacceptable coverage “
One of the documents found in 2022 said Al Jazeera should avoid using words like “massacre” to describe the Islamic State rocket strike in Jabalya when it acknowledged the attack as an “occupation.”
The document also confirmed that the request for Hamas “was well answered by Ntwosed’s Newsroom Management.”
Another document reveals that Hamas is trying to establish a secure security line through Al Jazeera, allowing direct communication between the Media Giant’s offices in Doha and the terrorist group.
Letter from Hamas’s Mingy Wing to Al Jazeera, December 4, 2022 (Credit: IDF Spokesperson Unit)
This line is said to be intended to push coverage in emergencies, and the military unit to send real-time orders on what to broadcast and what to leave and what to leave.
According to the agency, this is fresh evidence of the existence of an organized program between a terrorist organization and an international news network.
The language used by Al Jazeera’s coverage of the war also reflects Hamas’s positive stance, with the network describing Hamas as mujahideen or muqawin (martyrs (martyrs who die for the sake of Allah).
At the time, the IDF was described as an “occupational army” and IDF soldiers as “occupational forces.” Throughout their coverage of the hostage crisis, the network also took a closer look at the hostages as prisoners.
As part of the connection between Hamas and Al Jazeera, journalists were also given unprecedented access to the group’s vast network of servants.
Al Jazeera Reporter wa’el Al-Dahdouh shows the discussions of Hamas and included discussions with the wings of the military that confirmed, in the construction of the construction in January 2024, that built the ship took years.
In another report on Hamas channels, Al Jazeera was allowed to film operatives digging a tunnel into a trap set by the IDF, the research center noted.
Letter from Hamas’ Military Wing to Al Jazeera, August 16, 2022 (Credit: IDF Spokesperson Unit)
An April 2024 report said that the IDF’s surveillance setup had been successful and Al Jazeera broadcast weapons and IDF military equipment allegedly taken from the field by Hamas operatives.
Journalists double as terrorists
In addition to being directly linked to Al Jazeera’s coverage, journalists from many outlets working in the Palestinian Authority doubled as Hamas operatives and some attacked in mid-2020.
The controversy of the journalists doubled as the terrorists were taken out long ago by the IDF. Among those Israeli soldiers named and referred to Anas Al-Sharif.
Al-Sharif, a network journalist in Gaza who was killed in an IDF attack on August 10, 2025, was named in stolen documents as a member of the Hamas Hiling Wing, which is associated with the East Jabalia Battalion in the northern Gaza Brigade.
According to the list, Al-Sharif served as a fighter leader and squad leader in the Talul-melag shooting company, as a fighter in the Nukaba company, and the Head of the Battalion Information Department.
Documents called Ismail Abu Ammar, Al Jazeera Conterent from Khan Yunis who was injured in February 2024, as a member of the military wing of Hamas and the Commander in the East of the War in the East Khan Yunis BatLallion. He was one of the first to cover the October 7 attacks in real time and the agency said he was credited with receiving the latest information to document the attacks in real time.
Another Al Jazeera journalist by the name of Talal Mahmoud Addel Rahman Al-Arouki, who was seriously injured when retreating NOVEMBER NOVEMBER CAUTEMBIOSTION COUCKETE Hamas military wing.
Gazan journalist Hussam Shabat, who collaborated with Al Jazeera and was killed in a targeted strike in March 2025, was listed as a member of the Anti-Tank company of Hanoun Battalion and identified as a Snup operative. In another document, his name appeared among the missing terrorists in the training of the soldiers of the Battalion.
Abdullah Al-Jamal, a Palestinian journalist and editor who now works with Al Jazeera, was killed with his family during the ARNON operation in which three hostages were rescued from his home in Nussirat in June 2024.
Silencing Palestinian Dissent
Al Jazeera was also responsible for posting a picture favored by Hamas among the Palestinians in Gaza and they were seen shouting at Palestinians in an interview when they said something contrary to that narrative, the agency highlighted.
On November 5, 2023, during al-al Jazeera’s suspected Al-AQSA hospital, an Al Jazeera reporter decided to interview an injured Palestinian when a witness began to criticize Hamas for clarity among people.
In December of the same year, an Al Jazeera reporter was screened for pressuring a Palestinian interviewer when he said “Allah will call Qatar and Turkey to explain the” genocide “perpetrated by Israel.
