Last summer an IDF raid resulted in the freeing of four hostages who were being held in civilian homes. There were reports at the time that some of the hostages were being held in the home of a Palestinian journalist named Abdallah Aljamal.
Aljamal, along with his wife Fatima and father Ahmed, was killed when Israeli forces entered their apartment, where the hostages were being held, in the Nuseirat refugee camp in Gaza. The three rescued hostages held by the Aljamals are Shlomi Ziv, Almog Meir Jan, and Andrey Kozlov.
In addition to his service assisting the Hamas authorities in Gaza in the incarceration of civilian abductees, Aljamal was employed as a spokesman for the Gaza Labor Ministry. He also found time in his busy schedule to work as a journalist, penning a long list of articles for the US-based Palestine Chronicle newspaper, as well as a co-authored…
