[zczc]

At least some of those journalists seem to be Hamas combatants.

"According to the IDF, [Anas] al-Sharif has served as head of a rocket launching squad and a member of a Nukhba Force company in Hamas’s East Jabalia Battalion"[1]

https://www.timesofisrael.com/idf-says-gaza-documents-prove-... (2024)

[rich_sasha]

To be honest, it is Israel who is granting them credibility.

I can well imagine Al Jazeera aren't objective. But what other sources do I have? Journalists have been banned from Gaza - and why, if not to obscure information? If IDF is so desperate to censor what is going on, it is natural to disbelieve their narrative and to prefer the voices they are trying to censor.

Afghanistan, Iraq, Ukraine, Vietnam... All of these had journalists on the ground and no one tried to ban them.

[crinkly]

Other side of Al Jazeera is not particularly pretty. No one reads that. One of their "journalist" reports on 7th October who was actually, well, there:

https://www.aljazeera.net/politics/2023/10/7/شهود-عيان-للجزي...

(Use translate)

The joy of killing civilians. Disgusting. My support is gone.

Edit: I can't reply. Forget your whataboutism. Hamas values the martyrdom of their civilians and the deaths of Israelis more than it cares about the Palestinians. That is the tragedy here: Hamas made them perfect victims and political capital.

To note this is not a binary decision. You don't have to support one side or the other. I don't. But holding one to account and not the other is not acceptable.

[AlecSchueler]

> But holding one to account and not the other is not acceptable.

But we only have diplomatic relations with one side and we only supply weapons to one side.

[jacooper]

What about the 60,000+ civilians killed in Gaza? Do they not matter to you? Are Israeli lives more important to you or what?

[jacooper]

The military who's at trial for genocide is for sure a trusted source.