Thread by @JewhadiTM

How I Know @AP Knew They Were Sharing Their Offices With Hamas (via @Israellycool) israellycool.com/2021/05/16/how…

AP claim:

“AP’s bureau has been in this building for 15 years. We have had no indication Hamas was in the building or active in the building. This is something we actively check to the best of our ability.”

I believe they are lying and absolutely knew Hamas was in the building.

The words “to the best of our ability” are a clue as to their lie.

Former @AP reporter Matti Friedman wrote this all the way back in 2014:

“The AP staff in Gaza City would witness a rocket launch right beside their office, endangering reporters and other civilians nearby—

and the AP wouldn’t report it, not even in AP articles about Israeli claims that Hamas was launching rockets from residential areas. (This happened.) Hamas fighters would burst into the AP’s Gaza bureau and threaten the staff—and the AP wouldn’t report it.

Cameramen waiting outside Shifa Hospital in Gaza City would film the arrival of civilian casualties and then, at a signal from an official, turn off their cameras when wounded and dead fighters came in, helping Hamas maintain the illusion that only civilians were dying.

Colford, the AP spokesman, confirmed 
that armed militants entered the AP’s Gaza office in the early days of the war to complain about a photo showing the location of a rocket launch, though he said that Hamas claimed that the men ‘did not represent the group.’”

The AP “does not report many interactions with militias, armies, thugs or governments,” he wrote. “These incidents are part of the challenge of getting out the news—and not themselves news.’”