Reporters Without Borders removes Gazan terror operatives from its official media casualty database

"Reporters Without Borders, or Reporters Sans Frontières (RSF), has been caught removing at least two Gazan terrorists from its database and list of Palestinian media workers slain in the Israel-Hamas War, after they had previously been identified as journalists by the Paris-based media rights non-profit.

This was first revealed by HonestReporting on Wednesday, and the information was verified by The Jerusalem Post.

On July 20, HonestReporting recorded 68 names of slain Gazan journalists on the RSF media abuses Barometer. By August 4, the Barometer listed 67 names. The missing name that had previously been recorded was Hamas terrorist Mohammad Jarghoun, who on July 1 had been announced by the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades as part of its Rafah Brigade’s Martyr Muhammad Abu Harb Battalion.

By June 11, RSF also removed Jarghoun’s name from a running article featuring brief profiles of journalists ‘killed in connection with their work,’ during the Israel-Hamas War.

Before Jarghoun’s removal, his description read: ‘This 23-year-old reporter working for the Smart Media production company was killed by Israeli fire while covering fighting near the Rafah crossing point in the south of the Gaza Strip on October 7 [2023],’ read an earlier edit of the ongoing article.

Since June 10, RSF also removed the name of Mohamed Nasr Abu Huwaidi, who according to RSF ‘was clearly identifiable by his press vest when he was killed by an Israeli bombardment on 23 December in the Chajaya district, in eastern Gaza City, where he had gone to film the aftermath of an Israeli strike.’

According to Al-Quds Brigades, Huwaidi was a commander in its Central Military Media Unit. The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) found that he had participated in combat and has already removed him from their own database of journalists killed in the Israel-Hamas War..."