Al Jazeera at Work
6th September 2025
The morning’s email roundup from Mosaic directs attention to the video jointly produced by the Center for Peace Communications/Free Press (Free Press story here, behind the FP paywall). The video depicts Al Jazeera at work. Mosaic provides this background:
Because Hamas cannot overpower the IDF on the battlefield, it counts on inciting global hostility to Israel until international pressure forces Israel to stop fighting. This strategy depends both on distributing its own propaganda, and suppressing any information that it doesn’t want to be known outside of Gaza. For both purposes, it relies heavily on Al Jazeera, the media arm of Qatar, which is also Hamas’s patron.
As one of the interviewees in this video from the Center for Peace Communications explains, “the majority of the Al Jazeera staff [in Gaza] are an inseparable part of Hamas.” The network’s employees also play an important role in helping Hamas identify any journalists working for media not under its control—as well as dissidents more broadly—whom the terrorists then arrest and torture. On Al Jazeera’s team of propagandists-cum-agents was the late Anas al-Sharif, who shared a Pulitzer Prize and was widely mourned in the Western media after his death at the hands of the IDF. At the head of these information operations stood Abu Obeida, killed in an IDF airstrike last week.
Mosaic then quotes Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib, who describes himself on his X account as “[p]roud American; Gaza native; pro-Palestine, pro-Peace, anti-Hamas & milit-occupation, Head of @rfpalestine; Senior Fellow @AtlanticCouncil; Term Member @CFR_org.”