The Al Jazeera journalist who was killed in Gaza and mourned by Mayor Zohran Mamdani was allegedly a Hamas sniper, the Israeli Defense Forces has claimed.
The IDF accused Ahmed Wishah — a cameraman for Al Jazeera who was killed in an airstrike on Saturday — of being “a Hamas sniper operative.”
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“In recent months, he advanced sniper attack plans and worked alongside his brother, Muhammad Samir Muhammad Washah, a key terrorist in Hamas’ rocket and weapons production headquarters, who also operated under the guise of an Al Jazeera journalist and was eliminated in April,” the IDF said in a statement.
The Israeli military did not elaborate further or provide evidence on the claims.
