A post by CAMERA Arabic.

(All translations, emphases and in-bracket remarks are by CAMERA Arabic unless otherwise specified)

Sarit Ahmad Shaqur was an 18-year-old Druze woman from northern Israel whose murder on the afternoon of June 9^th came after years of her brothers threatening her life because she was gay.

Several hours later, when the background to the murder had already been reported by various Israeli media outlets, BBC Arabics producer in Israel and the West Bank Michael Shuval tweeted the following from his personal twitter account:

Shuval made a general reference to a wave of violence against the [LGBTQ] community in order to promote his coverage of the Jerusalem and Tel Aviv pride marches but his pre-recorded report and his Tweet did not mention Sarit Ahmad Shaqur at all. 

The next day (June 10^th), BBC Arabics live updates webpage added the following background to a 10:30 AM bulletin about former police chiefs protesting against the record-breaking crime rates amongst Israels Arab and Arabic-speaking citizens:

Among the issues that raised concerns recently is the sharp increase in the rate of criminal killings in Israels Palestinian [i.e., Arab and Arab...

14 Jul 2023 Source: Al Mayadeen By Ali Halawi The Israeli governments dealing with the tents planted outside the Shebaa Farms has been hysterical as the political and military command fails to make a decisive move. Following its failure in the war in Lebanon, the Israeli government sought to address the emerging problems through a []

14 Jul 2023 Source: Al Mayadeen The Israeli governments dealing with the tents planted outside the Shebaa Farms has been hysterical as the political and military command fails to make a decisive move. By Ali Halawi The Israeli government has gone into a frenzy after the Lebanese Resistance, Hezbollah, planted reconnaissance tents in the Bistara []

July 14, 2023 By Khalil Nasrallah Beirut In 2006, Israel decided to launch its aggression against Lebanon, taking advantage of a capture operation carried out by the Resistance to liberate Lebanese prisoners in Israeli prisons. The Israeli decision was not unilateral; it received American support and Arab cover. Later, it was revealed that Washington []

July 14, 2023 The Muslim scholar Sheikh Afif Al-Nabulsi passed away after 82 years of serving Islam and  Islam the resistance in face of the Israeli occupation. The late cleric, the father of Head of Hezbollah Media Relations Department Hajj Mohammad Afif, passed away on Friday, July 14, 2023 after a long battle with illness []

July 14, 2023 Hezbollahs Syrian Refugees File Official, Nawwar Sehali, called on the caretaker prime minister Najib Mikati to lead a ministerial delegation to Syria in order to discuss with President Bashar Assad the means of coping with the foreign conspiracy pertaining the refugees issue. The European Parliament passed a resolution that supports the continued []

1) MEMRI reports on a recent spat between the Palestinian Authority and Al Jazeera.

Fatah and PA spokespersons accused Al-Jazeera of waging a campaign of incitement and slander against the PA in the service of Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood. The PAs clash with Al-Jazeera came to a head when  Nabil Abu Rudeineh, the PAs presidency spokesperson and information minister, sent a letter to the Al-Jazeera management threatening legal measures against the network. Articles in the PA press slammed Al-Jazeera, accusing it of serving the agenda of the Muslim Brotherhood, Islamist elements and Qatar and seeking to spark internal wars throughout the Arab and Islamic world.

2) At the National Interest, Rany Ballout introduces a new Hizballah media channel.

Confrontational and often accusatory, Al-Mahatta, a Lebanese YouTube channel, is emerging as a de facto digital mouthpiece for Hezbollah. Its aim is to consolidate its influence by gaining a broader digital audience while continuing to cater to its well-established constituency in Lebanon.

The success of this channel should come as no surprise, as many members of Al-Mahattas team are either originally from or still affiliated with Al Akhbara Beirut-based, daily leftist Arabic newspaper widely regarded as a mouthpiece for Hezbollah.

3) At WINEP, Ishtar Al...

 July 13, 2023 Al-Manar is reposting a video of the Operation Truthful Promise which took place on July 2006 in the southern border town of Ayta Al-Shaab. The Hezbollahs cross-border operation led to the killing of 3 Israelis and the capture of 2 others in a bid to hold prisoner swap with the Israeli occupation. []