Report: IDF Drone Strike Eliminates Hamas ‘Journalist’ Who Invaded Israel on October 7
Media watchdog Honest Reporting: “Eslaiah held a grenade in one hand and a camera in the other, documenting Hamas’ massacre inside Israel.”
A Palestinian terrorist, who posed as photojournalist during the October 7 massacre, was eliminated in an alleged Israeli drone strike, Gaza-based terrorist group Hamas claimed Tuesday. “Hassan Abdel Fattah Mohammed Eslaih, a Gaza journalist who documented Hamas’s October 7 Massacre, was killed in a Monday IDF strike on Nasser Hospital in Khan Yunis,” the Jerusalem Post reported.
Hassan Eslaiah, who freelanced for mainstream media outlets such as the Associated Press and CNN, was a terrorist fighter belonging to Hamas’ Khan Younis Brigade. “According to the Israel Defense Forces and Shin Bet security service, Eslaiah was a member of Hamas’s Khan Younis Brigade and was operating under the guise of a journalist and owner of a press company,” The Times of Israel reported last month.
Eslaiah will be sorely missed among terrorist-supporting circles. Iran’s regime-run Mehr news agency praised the slain Hamas photographer for “tirelessly covering the events of Gaza and reflecting them on social media platforms.”
Hassan Eslaiah, killed today, was not a "journalist" but a member of Hamas who took part in 10/7 inside Israel (no "press" vest). At 5:59AM on 10/7 he posted "We wake up to the great gifts of God. The spirit has returned and our blessings have increased." https://t.co/Yg6T8kuv5D pic.twitter.com/8TL0QN8tVO
— Aizenberg (@Aizenberg55) May 13, 2025
Israeli news website Ynetnews reported Tuesday:
The Palestinian news agency Shehab reported that Hassan Eslaiah, a Gaza ‘journalist’ who operated under the guise of a media person on October 7 and livestreamed footage of the burning tank near the border fence, was eliminated in an IDF strike on Nasser Hospital in Khan Yunis.
Last month, the IDF had also attempted to eliminate him in a strike in Khan Yunis, but he survived.
The psychopath’s journalistic career came to an abrupt end after media watchdog Honest Reporting published a photograph of Hamas’ terror chief Yahya Sinwar kissing and hugging him. The embarrassing revelation forced big media outlets to cut their ties with him.
Gaza journalist Hassan Eslaiah, who was embedded with Hamas on October 7 and had close ties to Hamas, was killed in an Israeli airstrike on the Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, southern Gaza. pic.twitter.com/UV4lfOZpW9
— Ariel Oseran أريئل أوسيران (@ariel_oseran) May 13, 2025
“On October 7, 2023, Gazan photojournalist Hassan Eslaiah held a grenade in one hand and a camera in the other, documenting Hamas’ massacre inside Israel,” the watchdog reported in November 2023.
“Eslaiah held a grenade in one hand and a camera in the other, documenting Hamas’ massacre inside Israel,” Honest Reporting observed.
He was one of the four known Gaza ‘journalists’ who were embedded with Hamas terrorists as they rode into southern Israel on October 7, 2023.
In February 2024, a group of October 7 survivors filed a lawsuit against the Associated Press for buying photographs from Hassan Eslaiah and other Hamas-linked ‘journalists,’ the Jerusalem Post reported:
In 2024, a photo surfaced of former Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar kissing Eslaih, and both news outlets that employed Eslaih claimed to have fired him immediately.
Shortly after, the parents of five victims of the Nova festival attack filed a civil suit for damages against AP and Reuters for employing and utilizing photojournalists involved with terror organizations, naming Eslaih in the suit.
The parents of May Naim, Lotan Abir, Guy Gabriel, Shalev Madmoni, and Shani Louk filed the lawsuit in the Jerusalem District Court, seeking about NIS 25 million ($6.5 m.) in damages.
The lawsuit alleged that the journalists filing photographs in real time during the Hamas attacks made them a component of the attacks and, therefore, were not conducting legitimate journalistic work.
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Don’t let Aslih’s press vest fool you:
Hassan Abdel Fattah Mohammed Aslih, a terrorist from the Hamas Khan Yunis brigade, was eliminated along with other terrorists in the 'Nasser' hospital in Khan Yunis.
Aslih participated in the brutal October 7 massacre under the guise of a… pic.twitter.com/OWuKdxSjlo
— Israel Defense Forces (@IDF) May 13, 2025
IDF eliminates ‘significant’ Hamas terrorists in southern Gaza strike
An overnight Israeli strike eliminated several high-value Hamas operatives at a command center in southern Gaza, the IDF disclosed Monday.
The terrorists were operating out of the Nasser hospital-turned-terrorist base, the same location where Hamas ‘journalist’ Eslaiah was hit in last month’s Israeli strike.
“A short while ago, the IDF precisely struck significant Hamas terrorists who were operating from within a command and control center located in the ‘Nasser’ hospital in Khan Yunis. The compound was used by the terrorists to plan and execute terrorist attacks against Israeli civilians and IDF troops.” The Israeli military said in a statement early this morning.
As the Legal Insurrection reported in the past, the ‘hospital’ has been serving as a hideout for top terrorists involved in Hamas operations against Israeli soldiers and civilians.
“The successor of the head of the Hamas government in the Gaza Strip and head of Hamas’ finances and institutions, Ismail Barhoum, who was eliminated in a precise strike in the past March, operated from within the ‘Nasser’ hospital,” the IDF statement noted. “Senior Hamas officials continue to use the hospital for terrorist activity, through cynical and brutal use of the civilian population in the hospital and its surroundings.”
The IDF undertook painstaking efforts to minimize civilian casualties while conducting the strike, the statement confirmed.
The IDF recently struck Hamas terrorists operating from the Nasser Hospital compound in Khan Yunis, Gaza. This was the same location where Ismail Barhoum, Hamas’s financial chief and the replacement for Gaza's prime minister, worked before being eliminated in a targeted strike in… pic.twitter.com/MsaeCdBDZc
— Noa Tishby (@noatishby) May 13, 2025
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Sounds like he could have graduated cum laude at any of the Ivy League “journalism” schools.
“Journalist,” “aid worker” or “human rights activist” appear to be the contrived and duplicitous job titles of choice that are adopted by the goose-stepping, genocidal, Gazan Islamofascists/Muslim terrorists.
Nibble, nibble, nibble… well done Israel!
The Israeli’s sure get some pretty specific intelligence. Good deal on this terrorist being sent to hell with the rest of them.
Columbia, AP, and Reuters in mourning. Won’t interrupt Columbia’s Festival of Jew hatred.
Don’t understand why they don’t just level the hospital and be done with it.
Bunker buster, maybe 2 or in in the same spot, to ensure that their bunkers and tunnels are destroyed
and just remember
this has NOTHING TO DO with omar da brutha lover or the takeover of america by the same
nothing
nothing
nothing at all
israel does what it must to defend itself
while we have the leftists who love to destroy our civility
Somewhere, a herd of goats are feeling relieved.
Good things come to those who wait. Yet so many cannot distinguish right and wrong.
👍👍👍
That pic at top doesn’t look too gay, does it?
I wish Israel would use the biggest bombs for these attacks, as in the 1-2 miles diameter destruction type. Arabs in Palestine really need lessons in terror.
There is no such thing has a “Hamas Journalist”, they are just Terrorists with cameras.
Sure there are Hamas reporters, just as there are Hamas carpenters, electricians, cleaners, etc. Reporting is just another trade.