AG Report 1.24.2024

Nation Review published a detailed analysis demonstrating what I have highlighted repeatedly in this newsletter: The Washington Post abandoned all journalistic standards in their coverage of the Israel-Gaza war.

Hostages Describe Being Held at Gaza Hospitals Used by Hamas

The AP presented a piece last week that includes former Hamas hostage Sharon Alonio Cunio describing details of her captivity. One relevant detail she shared is that Hamas used an ambulance to transport her at one point (remember the skepticism from the press when Israel pointed out that Hamas was using ambulances to transport fighters?) and that she and her family spent much of her time in captivity at the Nasser hospital in Khan Younis.

Cunio, whose husband is still being held hostage in Gaza, described there being four rooms full of as many as 30 hostages at this hospital and explained that hospital staff would interact with them on occasion. The infuriating part of all this is that news organizations like the AP and The Washington Post have spent months downplaying the extensive evidence that Hamas was using Gaza hospitals as bases for operation and often citing denials from the very medical staff that was complicit in that usage to contradict accurate Israeli claims. Several other released hostages have also recounted being held at hospitals and we even have footage of hostages being brought to Al Shifa on October 7, but that didn’t stop the press from pretending the truth about that usage was unknowable.