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https://x.com/sentdefender/status/1799715089936761144
Purportedly one of the hostages was being held in the house of an Al-Jazeera journalist/writer/editor and several members of his family were killed while trying to prevent the hostage from being rescued.
EDIT: Turns out he wasn't an employee of Al-Jazeera, but he wrote opinion pieces for them.
EDIT 2: New article https://www.yahoo.com/news/al-jazeera-denies-connection-journalist-194749492.html - It seems that the female hostage was not the one being held at this location, but rather the three men were. The location is an apartment building and the hostages were being held on the 3rd floor while the journalist was living on the first floor. The claim that the journalist and his family were killed comes from a European based Hamas affiliate.
EDIT 3: Another article - https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/idf-confirms-abdallah-aljamal-was-holding-3-hostages-in-his-home-in-nuseirat-alongside-his-family/ - I don't read Hebrew, but it looks like IDF is confirming that the journalist and his family were the ones holding the hostages, not just someone in the same building.
EDIT 4: Looks like the US media has gotten hold of the story finally, but it's mostly NY Post and Fox news. Looks like they're behind the times because they're just running the Al-Jazeera angle.
Oof Google that name and you get basically zero trustworthy news articles either way. Does "purportedly" even count when it's from twitter? Sounds terrible but I'll wait for a real source
Did you Google the name? Because if you had you'd realize it's not a news organization and they don't make news articles. OSINT stands for Open Source Intelligence, it's basically a discord group of people in the intelligence sector posting things they have heard going on. Looking at their Twitter they seem to cover just about anything and everything, they have stuff about Ukraine, Gaza, France, UAE, Venezuela, etc. Looking for other stories it looks like they beat mainstream media to the story by about 10 hrs.
Looking into the claim itself, it seems that it originated from Israel, but Al-Jazeera's response isn't that the guy is innocent but rather that he never worked for them
https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/al-jazeera-denies-rumor-that-hostage-was-held-at-employees-home/
https://www.jpost.com/israel-hamas-war/article-805525
Turns out that the guy had written opinion pieces for Al-Jazeera and he mainly worked for the Palestine Chronicle, which is based out of Washington state. It looks like his information was included on Al-JAzeera because he had written opinion pieces, but wasn't actually employed by them. Take that for what you will, but it doesn't change the narrative much.
So, basically, the tweet is false, as it strongly implies that he was a photojournalist, writer, and editor at Al Jazeera. Certainly you agree because you outright made the claim. On top of that, your link clearly states, and I quote, that they are "unverified rumors that hostage Noa Argamani had been held at his home in central Gaza’s Nuseirat." Why would al Jazeera make a claim that he wasn't protecting him if they don't know? But I don't even see a link to their denial, so I'm not sure what they actually said.
No offense, but your post makes me very suspect of your implicit claims that this twitter account is in anyway reliable.
Eh, I wouldn't say it's false. The description of the guy comes from Al-Jazeera's website where they say he is a reporter and photojournalist and he did write for Al-Jazeera. If Al-Jazeera is going to post his work and list his information on their website I think it's understandable that people might think he is employed by them.
As for the attack being unverified, the other link I provided stated that the IDF confirmed that address and house (which is time stamped after the article you are referencing). Additionally, a third party who is identified as a Hamas operative in Europe was referenced as a source for these claims in both articles. I don't know how much more confirmed you can get unless you're holding out for Anderson Cooper to be live from the living room?
Finally, I haven't seen anywhere that Al-Jazeera is denying he was doing anything, the only thing they appear to be denying is that he was employed by them. Even then, Al-Jazeera doesn't seem to be making any articles about the guy, the whole thing was correspondence with representatives of Al-Jazeera, this stuff happened so recently I wouldn't be surprised if Al-Jazeera hasn't had time to post anything yet. For context, this information is <24 hours old, the first US article I see about it was only posted an hour ago.
Wait, we are claiming this some kind of intelligence community...but it's understandable that they can't even figure out if this guy works for al Jazeera? You'll have to help me square this.
But my claim is that the statement is false, not that they intentionally misled, so even if they were understandably confused, that still seems to be untrue.
I have no need to rush to a conclusion on this. I'm just reporting what one of your links said. In your attempt to rush to a conclusion, you already were convinced of a falsehood. Maybe you should slow down too.
I can't help but read your points as attempting to paint al Jazeera as some bad guy in this whole thing. How long ago was this tweet that is from some group that you claim is 10 hours ahead of the news? And we're being critical of al Jazeera for not rushing out an article in that time?
But it isn't inaccurate, that's the thing. The Twitter post says, "a Photojournalist and Writer/Editor for both Al-Jazeera and the Palestinian Chronicle." That is factually true..
The group is a discord channel for people in the intelligence sector, I don't know what you need squared about that. Take it for what it is, an early alert gossip mill by people who hear things before most other people do.
I haven't rushed to any conclusions, I've been sharing news articles as they come out.
Whether you pay them or not, posting articles from potential terrorists isn't a good look. The same can be said about any media group associating with terrorists, the same happened with CNN, NY Times, and Associated Press on October 7th.
Not sure why you're asking me when something was posted when I shared the link to it, that's just lazy. I never criticized Al-Jazeera for not publishing a response, I simply stated that they haven't, and my response about that was even understanding that not much time has passed?
I think you're the one rushing to conclusions and should slow down.
I meant I googled the name of the person the tweet called out. Not much out there from verified sources is what I was saying. I think a paid for twitter check is probably a negative in the trustworthy dept. Thanks for the extra info though. It just all seems to be a one sided narrative at this point.
Ah ok, my apologies. Yeah, there's not much in the way of mainstream international news picking this story up. Pretty much it was just Israel saying they raided XYZ houses, these are the people they found inside. Individuals made the connection to Al-Jazeera and mainstream Israeli media picked it up, but they've backed off a bit once Al-Jazeera clarified.
I'd generally agree with a general dislike of Twitter supporters, but no one has really stepped up to fill in Twitters void (at least that get the same level of traction as Twitter). Paying the Twitter tax still seems to get your information out faster and farther than almost any other alternative. I think the only way Twitter is going to fully fall will be if it no longer is profitable to run, otherwise large groups will continue to use it. One positive is that people seem to be diversifying from Twitter with Lemmy, Mastadon, Reddit, or something else (I guess Discord falls in the something else).
Now if you're just a regular person and paying for Twitter blue then I agree that you're probably not trustworthy or at least a bit stupid.
A fair enough assessment for the adults in the room.
What about the children?
As sad as it is, they're not Israel's responsibility. It's Israel's responsibility to minimize their deaths, but not to keep them safe. That's on Hamas/whoever gets control of Gaza after this war.
Minimising civilian casualties is literally their responsibility under international law
And that's also literally what I wrote. You just repeated my sentence. Nice.
Minimizing ≠ keeping them safe. Read my comment again.
The post you were responding to was about the death of children. We are talking about casualties, not pastoral care
Of course not, hasbara. Absolutely nothing about the genocide Israel is perpetrating is Israel's responsibility.
None at all.