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In recent days, Israel has released conclusive evidence - confirmed by US intel - that Hamas is using hospitals for military operations. @FreeBeacon

You wouldn’t know it from the mainstream media. I want to walk you through the coverage.🧵freebeacon.com/media/hamas-ho…

First, the evidence. The IDF put out a few videos walking through various military operation underneath hospitals in Gaza. US intel has corroborated the allegations. @CNN even got a ride-along to see what Hamas has been doing.

But apparently that wasn’t enough for @CNN, who turned around and used denials from Hamas (“local health officials”) to suggest that maybe Hamas wasn’t using the hospital.

It isn’t the first time.

It wasn’t just CNN of course. @nytimes may’ve been the worst offender.

Notice how these tweets/headlines don’t mention that Hamas has fighters in these hospitals?

That omission of Hamas fighters was a consistent feature of how the media has talked about the fighting in and around hospitals.

Here’s @washingtonpost doing the same thing.

@Reuters was among the worst here.

Again, a casual reader would have no idea from skimming these headlines and tweets that Israel was hitting a target housing Hamas fighters.

@NBCNews did the same, leaving out that Hamas was using the hospital, and brought in the specter of international condemnation.

Do you see how the cycle repeats? Media falsely report. Outrage ensues. Media report on outrage.

@AP did the same thing, wishcasting that Israel’s allies are upset about them hitting Hamas.

@axios again with the omission that Hamas was using the hospital to wage war against Israel.

Seems like a significant detail.

Again, what’s happening, @ABC, is that the doctors and hospitals are in a terrible state because terrorists are using them to fight.

How hard is that to say?

@CBSNews just copy/pasted Hamas propaganda, so it really can go lower.

It didn’t have to be this way. Outlets in Israel and internationally have given the facts up front. Here’s @TimesofIsrael

Special shout-out to @mitchellreports for serving as a mouthpiece for Hamas.

H/t to @NickFondacaro

@mitchellreports @NickFondacaro The evidence continues to pile up

@mitchellreports @NickFondacaro This thread initially focused on the bad coverage after new evidence had come, but I want to back up a bit and show you how the media wrote off this possibility all along, framing their coverage as if Israel were an evil aggressor wantonly targeting hospitals.

Here’s @nytimes

@mitchellreports @NickFondacaro @nytimes @washingtonpost did the same thing. Nowhere do they acknowledge that Hamas uses these buildings as much more than hospitals.

@mitchellreports @NickFondacaro @nytimes @washingtonpost Same goes for @Reuters. The average reader would have no idea that the hospitals are being used for military purposes by Hamas, something the terrorist group has long done.

@mitchellreports @NickFondacaro @nytimes @washingtonpost @Reuters @CNN relied on terrorists to dispute the allegation, that has since been quite clearly confirmed.

@mitchellreports @NickFondacaro @nytimes @washingtonpost @Reuters @CNN @politico made it sound like Israel’s allies would be upset. The media framing here is clear: look how villainous Israel is being

@mitchellreports @NickFondacaro @nytimes @washingtonpost @Reuters @CNN @politico It’s a rehashing of Hamas propaganda. @NBCNews does them one better and just parrots the propaganda outright.

@mitchellreports @NickFondacaro @nytimes @washingtonpost @Reuters @CNN @politico @NBCNews Last two for this one: @ABC and @AP. Again, no mention of why Hamas is the one putting the hospital at the center of the fighting.

I’ll leave it to you to guess at why the media would want someone to conclude otherwise.