https://mondoweiss.net/2024/03/the-real-reason-israel-stormed-al-shifa-hospital-yet-again/

The designation by #Israel of individuals as members of #Hamas is thus: Hamas is the government and so all government officials are legitimate targets of the IDF. I suppose it means that all police officers are legitimate targets of the IDF. The result is the disintegration of any structure that might be able to coordinate #aid relief and maintain any kind of social order, leading to gangs and individuals looting aid entering the area. and as one report postulates, the disintegration of Gaza society via tribal/factional in-fighting.

I haven't found any evidence that Mabhouh was directly involved in any attack on Israel or settlers, or that he was part of any coordination of such attacks. As the Mondoweiss piece reports.

"Mabhouh was the Director of Operations of the Gaza police force, a part of the Gaza government’s civilian administration. Unlike Hamas’s military wing, the Qassam Brigades, Mabhouh did not operate clandestinely at the start of the war, because he didn’t have to — he was in charge of civil law enforcement."

A quick look at mediabiasfactcheck.com - a random choice

"Overall, we rate Mondoweiss as Left Biased and Questionable due to the blending of opinion with news, the promotion of pro-Palestinian and anti-zionist propaganda, occasional reliance on poor sources, and hate group designation by third-party pro-Israel advocates."

Not only are the "right" biased against the actions of Israel, but also the "left". And of course the Jews who run Mondonweiss.

mediabiasfactcheck runs out of the Poynter Insitiute. In 2019 it published a list of 500 "unreliable" media sources, which was almost immediately withdrawn.

Last week, the Poynter Institute for Media Studies, a non-profit journalism and research organization, published a list of 500 unreliable new websites. But the list, which included many conservative news and think tank websites, was itself unreliable, and Poynter has since retracted it.

"Soon after we published, we received complaints from those on the list and readers who objected to the inclusion of certain sites, and the exclusion of others," explained Poynter editor Barbara Allen in a statement. "We began an audit to test the accuracy and veracity of the list, and while we feel that many of the sites did have a track record of publishing unreliable information, our review found weaknesses in the methodology. We detected inconsistencies between the findings of the original databases that were the sources for the list and our own rendering of the final report."

How exactly the list found its way onto the Poynter website in the first place is a bit of a mystery. Poynter confirmed that its author, Barrett Golding, is a freelancer [for the Southern Poverty Law Center.] rather than an employee, but did not answer other questions about the process of greenlighting this project.