Thread by @DrewHolden360

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Somewhat lost over the Thanksgiving holiday was that new evidence makes clear that Hamas was using Al Shifa hospital as a military command post.

The media spent weeks disputing this. I want to walk you through some examples. @FreeBeacon ⤵️
freebeacon.com/media/video-of…

First, the evidence. The Israeli military took @FoxNews and other outlets into a massive terrorist complex under Al Shifa hospital, complete with weapons, a full kitchen and blast doors, where Hamas had been coordinating military operations.

It dashed a media narrative where outlets stressed that there wasn’t evidence of Hamas co-opting the hospital—often citing Hamas as a disinterested party—and suggesting “the credibility of Israel…could be at stake.”

So said @CNN at least

As ever, it wasn’t just CNN. @NBCNews suggested this was part of the “information missteps” that have raised “questions about Israel’s credibility.”

NBC didn’t mention whether Hamas’s “credibility” faced similar concerns.

I think it’s probably time that @guardian updated this one, given the new evidence obviously doesn’t “fall far short” of what Israel alleges.

@washingtonpost updated their piece—it was worse before, believe it or not—but even the updated version relies on Hamas and the health ministry they control to rebut the claims.

Seriously.

Here’s @nytimes giving voice to a conspiracy theory voiced by Hamas’s spokesperson to support its “pressure mounts” narrative against Israel.

Maybe the lies pushed by the media have something to do with that “pressure”?

@Reuters did the same, relying on denials from a terrorist group to downplay the claims that the terrorists were acting like terrorists.

Sometimes I feel like I’m losing it reading this stuff.

Speaking of corrections, I think it’s high time that @AP corrected this piece that claimed Israel was accusing Hamas “without providing visual evidence.”

That obviously isn’t accurate. But it’s still online.

I think it’s worth pointing out that none of what Hamas is doing is new. In 2006, @PBS included the use of hospitals by Hamas in a documentary. @nytimes did the same in a piece in 2008.

Can the media not even believe itself about Hamas?

If they can’t, should anyone?