A reporter from India’s NDTV at the Al-Shifa hospital in Gaza
It was an open secret among foreign reporters that Hamas used the Gaza Strip’s main hospital as its command center, reported Yedioth Aharonot, Israel’s largest daily newspaper.
The paper, citing numerous foreign reporters, said journalists reporting from Gaza did not tell their audiences of Hamas’s use of the Al-Shifa hospital because they feared retaliation from Hamas. The newspaper further documented the climate of fear that Hamas instilled in Gaza-based reporters.
The day the conflict started last month, WND became the first and, until now, virtually the only news media outlet to report top Hamas leaders used the Al-Shifa hospital as its command center.
Now, a foreign reporter has told Yedioth “it is an open secret that Hamas uses Al-Shifa hospital as its command center” but “reporters in Gaza would not report that out of fear that it would endanger them.”
Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2014/08/hamas-used-main-hospital-as-command-center/#LqUMjBU1o86m3H6T.99
