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According to a report by the Israeli-Pilstinian outlet +972 magazine, Israel’s army handed over a special entity to identify journalists, which can target them to target them and reduce them as undercover humas to target them and reduce international criticism on the murder of media individuals. According to the report, “Legitimization Cell” was established after 7 October 2023, to increase the image of Israel and to strengthen information with the aim of strengthening diplomatic and military support from prominent colleagues. Intelligence sources said the Israeli army considered the media as an extension of the battlefield, which allowed it to reduce sensitive intelligence for public release.“It was the phrase,” it’s good for legitimacy, “a source remembered, according to +972 magazine. “The goal was to find as many materials as possible to just serve the efforts.” He said that the personnel outside the validity cell were also instructed to flagged off any material which could support Israel in the Information War.In the last two years, several “research teams” were formed within the Israeli military intelligence to focus on “Hamas’s lies”. He said that the purpose was to cover the war on the broadcast network to “infamous” journalists, allegedly a reliable and accurate manner, “but those who were allegedly associated with Hamas, official security sources were said by the magazine. Four al -Jazeera journalists with two freelancers were killed in an Israeli strike in Gaza City last week. The prominent correspondent among them was Anas Al-Sherif, who was alleged in the Israeli army that Hamas operative “was presented as a journalist.”In October 2024, the army alleged that six al-Jazeera journalists, including Al-Sherif, were operative, a claim that they firmly denied. The Israeli army killed six journalists in the strike on August 10, which was accepted that it was directed in Sharif.Two months ago, in July, the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) had expressed concern for the safety of Al-Sherif, warning that he was “targeted by an Israeli military smear campaign, which he believes that he is a pioneer of his murder, as is quoted by the +972 magazine.An intelligence source stated by the magazine, “If the global media is talking about killing innocent journalists to Israel, there is a push to find a journalist immediately that may not be so innocent, such as somehow makes the other 20 acceptable,” an intelligence source was said by the magazine. Since the onset of the war, in at least one example, the “legitimacy cell” distorted intelligence information to incorrectly present a journalist as a member of Hamas’s military wing, saying two intelligence sources.