The Ravayat-e Fath Foundation — a Tehran-based cultural center sponsored by the Iranian regime’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), a US-designated terrorist organization — plans to produce films about Iran’s unprecedented direct attack on Israel last weekend, according to a new report.

Ali Moqavasaz, the head of the institution, said the cultural center wants to commemorate April 13 as a “historic day” by organizing a festival and promoting artworks that glorify the Iranian strike against Israel, Iran International reported. He added that while the foundation has not found a filmmaker ready to produce a film about the assault on Israel, the cultural center is serious about wanting to make movies highlighting the attack. Moqavasaz also vowed that Revayat-e Fath will produce films about IRGC commanders.

Iran fired more than 300 drones and ballistic and cruise missiles at Israel last Saturday, marking the first time that the Islamic Republic has launched a direct military assault against the Jewish state. Most of the missiles and drones were intercepted by Israel and its allies before striking Israeli territory. Only one injury was reported in Israel from the onslaught.

The attack took place less than two weeks after an alleged Israeli airstrike on the Iranian consulate in Syria’s capital of Damascus that killed seven members of the IRGC, including two senior commanders. One of the commanders allegedly helped plan the Hamas terrorist group’s Oct. 7 massacre across southern Israel.

Israel has neither confirmed nor denied involvement in the incident.

“Revayat-e Fath” in Farsi means “the narrative of conquest.” The foundation was named after a series of documentaries produced by pro-government filmmaker and author Morteza Avini about the eight-year war between Iran and Iraq in the 1980s, Iran International noted.

Mohammad Naderi, the former head of the Revayat-e Fath Foundation, criticized artists who supported the nationwide anti-government protests across Iran following the 2022 death of Masha Amini, who died while in the custody of Iran’s morality police. He called the protesting artists “useless figures and celebrities” who “betrayed the government, people and country.”

Israel appeared to respond to Iran’s recent attack with limited military strikes in Iran on Friday.

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Harrowing footage released on Wednesday, shows Palestinian cameramen filming the violent abduction of Yarden Bibas into Gaza on October 7.

While the identity of the Palestinian journalists remains unclear, their presence amid a blood-thirsty mob of terrorists proves a disturbing truth: Gaza-based journalists covering Hamas atrocities that day did not bravely risk their lives, as declared by institutions that recently granted them awards, but operated easily without any objections from the perpetrators.

“Innocent Palestinian civilians” brutally kidnapping Yarden Bibas on October 7
https://t.co/Tf1KWFO1gH

— Dr. Eli David (@DrEliDavid) April 17, 2024

In the video, a professional camera hovering over a Palestinian mob can be seen as its operator nonchalantly tries to focus on the terrified Bibas, who is tightly held on a motorbike in the middle of the chaotic scene.

34-year-old Bibas — whose wife Shiri and two young sons Ariel and Kfir had been abducted in a separate incident — is seen surrounded by armed men, bloodied, beaten, abused, and yelled at.

But the cameraman — as well as whoever films the video footage and others who hold up their phones — care only about capturing Bibas’s suffering, most likely in order to sell the footage to local and international news outlets.

As Yarden Bibas was kidnapped by a mob of Gazan terrorists, Palestinian photojournalists and cameramen working for foreign press agencies took footage and photos at the scene.

This is what the mainstream media considered to be “bravely risking their lives.” https://t.co/VkTk0SqcOs pic.twitter.com/22Zg06qgOs

— HonestReporting (@HonestReporting) April 17, 2024

That they could operate freely amidst the barbarity suggests that they were present with — at the very least — tacit approval from the mob. In fact, including journalists as part of the invading force was always part of Hamas’ plan.

Gaza-based journalists were there not just to document, but to exploit. HonestReporting exposed this connection in November 2023, revealing that Gaza-based photojournalists had infiltrated into Israel with Hamas on October 7.

Subsequently, CNN and the AP cut ties with one of them — Hassan Eslaiah — who had been photographed with none other than Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar.

But in general, media outlets failed to acknowledge these ethical violations. Not only do they still offer for sale pictures showing the lynching of an Israeli soldier or the abductions of civilians into Gaza. They showcase them in their selective war footage galleries, and win prestigious awards with them.

This is not journalism.

As revealed last month by Israel’s Channel 12 news magazine Uvda, the documentation and distribution of the October 7 atrocities was part of Hamas’ vicious plan. And as an Islamic Jihad spokesperson recently admitted, international media reporters in Gaza have been willingly dancing to Hamas’ tune.

So if we put two and two together, it’s clear that the video that captured media workers filming Bibas’ abduction shows only one example out of many.

As Hamas slaughtered more than 1,200 people in Israel and kidnapped 250 others, Gaza-based journalists were there to document it all.

Others celebrated the massacre on social media, like Motaz Azaiza, who — just this week — has been shamelessly declared one of TIME Magazine’s most influential people of 2024.

It is stunningly irresponsible for @Time to allow Motaz Azaiza to rewrite history and to declare him one of the most influential people of 2024. On October 7, he celebrated the start of the war he’s now “raising awareness” for the world to stop. https://t.co/e1uKX8lqHu https://t.co/0cQmAvlV8I

— HonestReporting (@HonestReporting) April 17, 2024

But any profit or recognition gained by such “journalists” or their organizations is tainted, because it has all been achieved thanks to Hamas’ passive or active approval, on the back of innocent people like Yarden Bibas.

HonestReporting is a Jerusalem-based media watchdog with a focus on antisemitism and anti-Israel bias — where a version of this article first appeared.

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After Palestinian Media Watch exposed in the US Congress in 2011 that the Palestinian Authority (PA) pays salaries to terrorists, most Western countries eventually cut off funding of the PA’s general budget and instead gave money for specific projects, such as education. However, one Palestinian framework has remained a recipient of Western money and was also excluded from the limitations of the Taylor Force Act, which prohibits American funding of the PA. That framework is the PA Security Forces.

The US State Department said that in 2002, it provided $45 million to the PA security sector:

The U.S. government plans to provide an additional $75 million in economic assistance to the Palestinian people this year. Additionally, the United States is also providing $45 million for programs to support the security sector including important improvements to the rule of law.

[U.S. Department of State website, March 26, 2022]

Now the PA reports that the Western-funded General Intelligence Service of the PA Security Forces gave a special grant to precisely those terrorists whom the West is trying not to fund — the convicted Palestinian terrorists and dead terrorists. Worse still, the recipients are terrorists who are members of the PA General Intelligence Service who used their training and weapons from the US to perpetrate terror against Israel. The decision to give the grants to terrorists was made by the head of the PA General Intelligence Service, Majed Faraj, who is presented internationally as a “moderate” who cooperates with Israel in fighting Palestinian terror. Yet instead of punishing those members of the PA Security Forces who turned to terror, Faraj decided to give them an extra reward:

The [PA] General Intelligence Service in Jenin provided a grant to the families of the Martyrs and the prisoners [i.e., terrorists] from the service’s ranks in the district …

A delegation from the service provided the grant to 25 families from among the Martyrs’ families and 11 families from among the prisoners’ families from the General Intelligence ranks.
[PA General Intelligence] Service Director in Jenin Adnan Abu Aisheh said that the message of the service, under the instructions of its leader [Head of PA General Intelligence] Majed Faraj, is to emphasize what President Mahmoud Abbas has said again and again — that if we are left with one penny, it will be paid to the families of the Martyrs and the prisoners. [emphasis added]

[WAFA, official PA news agency, April 4, 2024; official PA daily Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, April 5, 2024]

Official PA TV also reported on the special grants to the members of the PA Security Forces-turned-terrorists’ families:

News flash on screen: “The [PA] General Intelligence [Service] gives a grant to the families of the Martyrs and the prisoners from its members in the Jenin district.”

[Official PA TV, April 5, 2024]

In addition to these direct payments from the US-funded budget to terrorists, new recruits to the PA security forces train “at a U.S.-funded training center” [Washington Post, March 5, 2024].

Palestinian Media Watch recently exposed that in addition to those receiving special grants, the PA forces in general are profoundly involved in terrorism, as admitted by a PA official:

More than roughly 63-65% of the number of Martyrs in the West Bank, in the daily confrontations, are members of the Fatah Movement. And most of them are members of the [PA] Security Forces or their sons … The ones who are being pursued in the streets, arrested, and imprisoned are the Palestinian Security Forces officers. [emphasis added]

[Official PA TV, Topic of the Day, June 14, 2023]

Fatah also corroborated the PA TV report:

More than two-thirds of the Martyrs in the West Bank over [the last] year-and-a-half belong to the Fatah Movement and the PA … More than 355 of our Palestinian people’s prisoners inside the prisons are from the Palestinian [PA] Security Forces — in other words, the PA’s soldiers.

[Fatah Commission of Information and Culture, Facebook page, May 27, 2023]

To sum up, the US-funded PA General Intelligence Service is giving grants to convicted terrorists from among the General Intelligence, and new recruits to the PA Security Forces are being trained in US-built facilities. In other words, it appears that money is going directly to convicted terrorists while the US is training aspiring terrorists.

The authors are the founder and senior analyst at Palestinian Media Watch, where a version of this article was originally published.

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