On Sunday night, the Israel Defense Forces carried out a targeted strike on a Hamas rocket cell head in Gaza City, Anas al-Sharif , who posed as a journalist for Al Jazeera .

The Qatari pro-Hamas network and several Western media outlets attempted to trivialize the multiple proofs offered by the IDF of al-Sharif’s membership in a Hamas military wing cell, parroting the claim that he was merely a journalist targeted by Israel.

This incident and its international fallout highlight a central feature of the modern information war that Israel is facing: the fusion of terrorist operations with media and propaganda and Hamas’s ability to embed itself in seemingly civilian organizations.

But the latest international media firestorm is also an example of an even larger, associated phenomenon

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