Almog Meir Jan is suing a United States non-profit after one of its employees held him hostage in their home.
(PLGNN) - Almog Meir Jan, 22, is suing the People Media Project, which is a United States-based non-profit that has links to Abdallah Aljamal, a Palestinian and Hamas operative who held Meir Jan, along with two other hostages, Andrey Kozlov and Shlomi Ziv, in his home which is located in the Nuseirat Refugee Camp in Gaza. All three hostages were kidnapped by terrorist group Hamas during from the Nova Music Festival on October 7th. The three hostages, along with one other hostage who was held 200 meters away, were rescued by the Israeli Military on June 8th and was called one of the "most complicated" hostage rescue operations of all time.
Aljamal was a correspondent for the Palestine Chronicle, which is owned by the People Media Project. He wrote anti-Israel articles for the website and continued to have his articles published until he was killed during the rescue operation on June 8th. Aljamal also served as a spokesperson for the Hamas Ministry of Labor, and contributed to an Al Jazeera Op-ed in 2019.
The Palestine Chronicle tried to distance itself from Aljamal, and just hours after the hostage rescue, they changed his status from "correspondent" to "freelance contributor".
“It is indisputable that defendants provided Hamas operative Aljamal, whose connections to Hamas were publicly known, with a US-based and taxpayer subsidized platform to publish Hamas propaganda and to pass the material off as independent journalism,” the lawsuit says.
Any United States entity that knowingly supports terrorist organizations could be in violation of terroism laws and subject to criminal penalties. The United States designated Hamas a terrorist group in 1997, which is ten years before Hamas took control of Gaza in 2007.
(PLGNN) - Almog Meir Jan, 22, is suing the People Media Project, which is a United States-based non-profit that has links to Abdallah Aljamal, a Palestinian and Hamas operative who held Meir Jan, along with two other hostages, Andrey Kozlov and Shlomi Ziv, in his home which is located in the Nuseirat Refugee Camp in Gaza. All three hostages were kidnapped by terrorist group Hamas during from the Nova Music Festival on October 7th. The three hostages, along with one other hostage who was held 200 meters away, were rescued by the Israeli Military on June 8th and was called one of the "most complicated" hostage rescue operations of all time.
Aljamal was a correspondent for the Palestine Chronicle, which is owned by the People Media Project. He wrote anti-Israel articles for the website and continued to have his articles published until he was killed during the rescue operation on June 8th. Aljamal also served as a spokesperson for the Hamas Ministry of Labor, and contributed to an Al Jazeera Op-ed in 2019.
The Palestine Chronicle tried to distance itself from Aljamal, and just hours after the hostage rescue, they changed his status from "correspondent" to "freelance contributor".
“It is indisputable that defendants provided Hamas operative Aljamal, whose connections to Hamas were publicly known, with a US-based and taxpayer subsidized platform to publish Hamas propaganda and to pass the material off as independent journalism,” the lawsuit says.
Any United States entity that knowingly supports terrorist organizations could be in violation of terroism laws and subject to criminal penalties. The United States designated Hamas a terrorist group in 1997, which is ten years before Hamas took control of Gaza in 2007.
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