The Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) released a manipulated image of journalist Ali Shuaib, who was killed in an airstrike. The IDF accused Shuaib of being a member of Hezbollah's Radwan forces. Following the strike that killed three Lebanese journalists, the IDF boasted on social media about Shuaib's elimination, asserting he was not a journalist but an intelligence asset. Israeli diplomat Alex Gandler supported this view, stating that media within terrorist organizations is operational rather than independent.
"The IDF accused Shuaib of operating as a member of Hezbollah's Radwan forces and included a photo of him wearing a military uniform. When asked by Fox News about the source of the photo, the IDF responded, quote, Unfortunately there isn't really a picture of it, it was Photoshopped."
"Ali Shuaib was no journalist, he was an intelligence asset with a camera. Operating under the cover of Al-Manar, Hezbollah's own television network, he functioned as part of the organisation's propaganda and intelligence machinery."
"His elimination underlines a simple but often ignored reality: Within terrorist organisations, media' is not independent, it is operational."
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