Meet Anas al-Sharif's Replacement at Al Jazeera: He's Also a Member of Hamas
Before joining Al Jazeera, Shadi Shamiya served as head of the correspondents’ department at Al-Aqsa TV, Hamas’ flagship propaganda channel, which has been sanctioned by the U.S. government.
On Friday, the Qatari state-run network Al Jazeera announced two new correspondents to replace Anas al-Sharif and Mohammed Qreiqea, who were killed last week in an Israeli airstrike: Shadi Shamiya and Nour Abu Rukba.
Anas, by every available piece of evidence and according to the Israel Defense Forces, was a Hamas terrorist. Qreiqea, too, appeared tied to the group. It should therefore surprise no one that Shadi Shamiya is cut from the same cloth.
Before joining Al Jazeera, he served as head of the correspondents’ department at Al-Aqsa TV, Hamas’ flagship propaganda channel, which has been sanctioned by the U.S. government. In other words, a card-carrying Hamas operative.
And while Shadi keeps his own social media presence relatively sanitized, his wife, Wafaa Abdel Karim, is less discreet. She openly flaunts her admiration for Hamas and jihad. On Facebook, she posted “O Allah, grant victory to our fighters and protect them, O Allah. Destroy the Jews and their supporters, O Lord of the worlds.” She’s posted Hamas propaganda straight from the Qassam Brigades on multiple occasions. (See here, here, and here, for example.)
Publicly available info about Nour appears limited at this point. I’ve identified an X account and two Instagram pages seemingly associated with her (here and here), but none contain any noteworthy material aside from the usual anti-Israel propaganda. Will update if I find anything interesting.