(HorizonPost.com) – One of the four Israeli hostages freed in the daring rescue operation last month is suing an American nonprofit group over its ties to the journalist who held him captive in Gaza for eight months.
Almog Meir Jan, 21, who along with 26-year-old Noa Argamani, 27-year-old Andrey Kozlov, and 40-year-old Shlomi Ziv, was rescued by Israeli special forces during the June 8 operation, last week filed a lawsuit against the People Media Project, the nonprofit group behind the Hamas propaganda outlet the Palestine Chronicle.
Jan’s captor Abdallah Aljamal, who was killed in the June 8 operation, was a contributor to the Palestinian Chronicle in addition to acting as the spokesman for the Hamas-run Ministry of Labor in Gaza.
The complaint, filed in a Washington state district court on July 9, also names as defendants the Palestine Chronicle’s Editor-in-Chief Ramzy Baroud, and the head of the People Media Project John Harvey.
It accuses the defendants of employing a “Hamas Operative” and providing him a platform in the United States to “write and disseminate Hamas propaganda” through its taxpayer-subsidized charitable organization.
The lawsuit accuses the defendants of “willfully” and “knowingly” procuring and disseminating Hamas propaganda through the Palestine Chronicle to a US audience.
Following the October 7 Hamas terrorist attacks on Israel, the defendants allowed Aljamal to “whitewash Hamas’s crimes” and rally international support for the terrorist organization, all while he was holding the plaintiff prisoner in his Gaza home, the lawsuit alleges.
The lawsuit accuses the defendants of aiding, abetting, and materially supporting Hamas and its operative Abdallah Aljimal by providing him a platform and compensating him for his propaganda.
The lawsuit also notes that the material support for Hamas provided by the defendants provided support for Hamas’s terrorist acts, including abducting and holding the plaintiff and others hostage for over eight months, in violation of international law.
Jan and the other three hostages were abducted from the Nova music festival where Hamas terrorists murdered more than 360 people on the morning of October 7, 2023.
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