Reuters calls 'Specially Designated Global Terrorist' head of Hamas a 'tough talking' 'moderate' after assassination

Following the assassination of Ismail Haniyeh on Wednesday, Reuters described the Palestinian terrorist leader, who was responsible for the deaths of thousands, as “tough-talking” and the “more moderate face of Hamas.”

Haniyeh was determined to be a Specially Designated Global Terrorist by the US government for his role in orchestrating and supporting acts of terrorism against Israel and its allies.

According to the Jerusalem Post, he began his career allied with the founder of Hamas, Sheikh Ahmed Yassin. Yassin was responsible for numerous terrorist acts and the founding of the Palestinian branch of the Muslim Brotherhood.

Earlier this year, Haniyeh said he needed dead Palestinian civilians to help spur on the war effort, saying, "The blood of the women, children, and elderly...we are the ones who need this blood so it awakens within us the revolutionary spirit.”

In 2006, Haniyeh became the prime minister of the Palestinian Authority and in 2017, was elected head of Hamas's political bureau.

Following the Oct. 7 attack that killed over 1,200 civilians and saw over 250 others taken hostage, Haniyeh celebrated while watching the bloody massacre.

Yet Reuters called the terrorist leader the “tough-talking face of the Palestinian group's international diplomacy,” and a moderate. This, despite telling the outlet in 2012 when asked by Reuters “‘If Hamas had abandoned the armed struggle,’ Haniyeh replied ‘of course not’ and said resistance would continue ‘in all forms - popular resistance, political, diplomatic and military resistance.’”

Reuters was one of several outlets, including the Associated Press, CNN, and the New York Times that had "journalists" embedded with Hamas as they massacred Israeli civilians on October 7. The outlets published the images they received from the Gazan photographers of the surprise terrorist attack on the Jewish state, which included Hamas terrorists taking civilians hostage and attacking Israeli tanks and civilians.

The outlet told The Post Millennial in a statement after the ties were revealed, "We are aware of a report by HonestReporting and accusations made against two freelance photographers who contributed to Reuter's coverage of the Oct. 7 attack.

"Reuters categorically denies that it had prior knowledge of the attack or that we embedded journalists with Hamas on Oct. 7. Reuters acquired photographs from two Gaza-based freelance photographers who were at the border on the morning of Oct. 7, with whom it did not have a prior relationship.

"The photographs published by Reuters were taken two hours after Hamas fired rockets across southern Israel, and more than 45 minutes after Israel said gunmen had crossed the border. Reuters staff journalists were not on the ground at the locations referred to in the HonestReporting article. Reuters is committed to reporting news fairly, accurately and independently, in keeping with the Thomson Reuters Trust Principles."

On Wednesday morning, Haniyeh was assassinated at his home in Tehran. He led Hamas from Qatar. Haniyeh was in Iran for the swearing-in of the new Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian.

No one has claimed responsibility for the attack yet but that didn’t stop Hamas from blaming Israel. The Jewish State previously pledged to kill Haniyeh and other architects of the Palestinian terrorist group's Oct. 7 attack.

The assassination came less than 24 hours after Israel eliminated senior Hezbollah commander Fuad Shukr, a terrorist leader who was involved in a strike on an Israeli-Druze community in Golan Heights that left 12 children and teenagers dead over the weekend. He was also the architect of the 1983 bombing of US Marine barracks in Beirut that left 241 US servicemembers dead.