Israel Confirms Al Jazeera ‘Journalist’ Killed in Gaza Strike was Hamas Sniper
IDF: “During the war, Hossam carried out terrorist attacks against IDF troops and Israeli civilians.”
Israeli military has confirmed that Hossam Shabat, an Al Jazeera ‘journalist’ killed in an airstrike, was a Hamas terrorist. “The IDF confirms that it killed an Al Jazeera reporter in an air strike yesterday,” The Times of Israel reported. “The military has long charged that Hossam Shabat was an active member of Hamas.”
Shabat’s identity as a Hamas terrorist was well known. In October 2024, Legal Insurrection published a post exposing Shabat and five other Al Jazeera journalists as members of Hamas or Palestinian Islami Jihad terrorist groups. The information was based on secret Hamas documents recovered by the IDF during the Gaza military operation.
Over 6 months ago, Hossam Basel Abdul Karim Shabat’s role within the Hamas terrorist organization was exposed by us here on @X. He carried out all of his actions under the cover of an @AlJazeera journalist. Yesterday, he was eliminated by the IDF.
Don’t let the press vest… https://t.co/5Y2x40DdnI pic.twitter.com/gVn5NVsOVa
— Israel Defense Forces (@IDF) March 25, 2025
Israel armed forces “eliminated the terrorist Hossam Basel Abdul Karim Shabat, a sniper terrorist from the Beit Hanoun Battalion of the Hamas terrorist organization, who cynically posed as an Al-Jazeera journalist,” the IDF said in a statement Tuesday.
“In October 2024, the IDF and ISA exposed the terrorist’s direct affiliation with the military wing of the Hamas terrorist organization. Internal Hamas documents were revealed proving that he participated in military training conducted by the Beit Hanoun Battalion of Hamas in 2019,” the IDF noted.
Hossam Shabat’s “reporting” from Gaza. Let me guess, he also covered the “IDF trains dogs to rape people” story?
To claim this sniper, who was a member of Hamas’ anti-tank battalion as revealed many months before his death, is a journalist, is truly comical.
Via… pic.twitter.com/xc9VIeS3FZ
— Emily Schrader – אמילי שריידר امیلی شریدر (@emilykschrader) March 25, 2025
Since October 7, 2023, he had taken part in terrorist operations targeting Israeli soldiers and civilians. “During the war, Hossam carried out terrorist attacks against IDF troops and Israeli civilians. This is additional proof of Hamas terrorists affiliation to the Al-Jazeera network,” the IDF statement added.
Despite irrefutable evidence, the mainstream media decried the killing of a known Hamas terrorist as an attack on ‘free press.’ Even Fox News correspondent Trey Yingst joined the media outrage over the killing of the Hamas sniper who masqueraded as a journalist.
It's wild that FoxNews continues employing this Hamas shill. Since the war began, he has consistently and knowingly lied to Fox's audience by claiming that Hamas terrorists eliminated in the war are "journalists." Hossam Shabat, for example, was a sniper in the Beit Hanoun… https://t.co/lYvDCbZIYg
— Noah Pollak (@NoahPollak) March 24, 2025
The Jerusalem Post reported Shabat’s dual identity:
The IDF confirmed that Al Jazeera journalist Hossam Shabat, who was killed on Monday by Israeli forces, was a Hamas terrorist, the military announced on Tuesday morning.
The IDF and Shin Bet eliminated Shabat on Monday, stating that he was a sniper from Hamas’s Beit Hanoun Battalion and “cynically posed as an Al Jazeera journalist.”
The military claimed that in October 2024, the IDF and Shin Bet exposed Shabat’s ties with Hamas and the terror group’s military wing, al-Qassam Brigades, by revealing internal Hamas documents that proved that he had participated in military training in 2019.
During the Israel-Hamas war, Shabat carried out terror attacks against IDF troops and Israeli civilians, the military claimed.
At the time of writing, Shabat had 580,000 followers on Instagram, where he frequently posted images of himself in a press vest and described himself in Hebrew as a journalist.
He also has 171,200 followers on X/Twitter, where his “team” posted a memorial after his death.
Israel eliminated al jazeera Journalist Hossam Shabat Today.
Was Hossam Shabat just an ordinary journalist or did he provide material support for a terror Organization?
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pic.twitter.com/muDHIivCKQ
— Open Source Intel (@Osint613) March 24, 2025
The ties between Al Jazeera and Hamas are so deep that Israel in May 2024 had to ban the Qatari state-funded broadcaster from operating in the country.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called Al Jazeera a “terror channel.”
“Al Jazeera harmed Israel’s security, actively participated in the Oct. 7 massacre, and incited against Israeli soldiers,” Prime Minister Netanyahu said in March 2024.
According to an official Israeli report published in October 2024, investigators uncovered “close cooperation between Hamas and the network,” which ranged from “prohibiting the channel from criticizing the organization, to concealing incidents of failed rocket launches, and even establishing a secure communication line between Hamas and Al Jazeera.”
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Was he also a UNWRA employee?
Everyone in Gaza is Hamas. Some of them may also be “Journalists”.
And housewives whose primary job is to is to breed as many terrorist in waiting as possible, followed with a dramatic show of anguish after they are wasted doing their parents bidding.
Geez American journalists need to keep up with these hard working unbiased Palestinian journalists. Talk about running the hustle. After a busy day of killing innocent civilians and hiding in tunnels you give the world exclusive access to all of your misdeeds. How ever does he get those interviews, those key insights ? When is Christiana Amanpour also going to step up and start moonlighting for antifa or maybe join Hezbollah ? That will make the Pulitzer a sure thing.
Amanpour is definitely the one to beat for Pulitzer’s Tokyo Rose award for 2025. Maybe even the lifetime achievement award. Where would the world be without journalists like Shabat and Amanpour?
I’ll page her to find out.
It sounds as if the entirety of Al Jazeera Personnel should be given closer scrutiny. They probably have quite a few more terrorists among their ranks
I bet that ALL Al jazeera journalist are also terrorists, so start giving them appropriate treatment.
Sniper journalist?
Or journalist who sniped?
Either way he’s not doing any more sniping or journaling.
Journalisming.
He’s in virgin territory now.
He sure is. However, all those virgins happen to be Black Mamba Snakes. Bon Voyage!
It probably wouldn’t take a terribly concerted effort to identify as many as a half dozen Hamas snipers at the Washington Post headquarters.
But you get such better pictures through a scope!
Statistics about how they die would be interesting, what percentage ate lead poisoning, burning, shredding?
Columbia School of Journalism in mourning and flying their Hamas flag at half staff.
BTW: Al Jizz has been banned from Israel.
when your mic is an ak-47
Another dead terrorist. One down, so much more to go.
Hossam Shabat mistook his sniper rifle for a camera. The IDF failed to mistake the rifle sniper for a journalist.
Good job. Keep it up.
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