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Shocking But Expected: Journalist Arrested in Jerusalem for Inciting Terror Works for Reuters, ABC News
Palestinians walk at the compound that houses Al-Aqsa Mosque, known to Muslims as Noble Sanctuary and to Jews as Temple Mount, in Jerusalem’s Old City May 21, 2021. Photo: REUTERS/Ammar Awad
A journalist arrested by Israeli police on suspicion of inciting and supporting terror works for Western media outlets, HonestReporting revealed on Sunday, calling into question her objectivity and her outlets’ journalistic standards.
Latifeh Abdellatif, a Jerusalem photojournalist who, according to her social media, freelances for Reuters, ABC News, and the BBC, shared a post calling for “martyrdom” along with a video of former Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar, as well as other posts glorifying terrorists, police said in a statement.
The statement did not disclose Abdellatif’s name, which HonestReporting later revealed based on Palestinian media reports.
According to her Facebook page, Abdellatif works also for the United Nations Population Fund, and has shared a post declaring that “Al-Aqsa has always been and will always remain for Muslims alone,” deliberately denying Jewish history surrounding the Temple Mount, the holiest site in Judaism.
But none of this prevented the world’s leading news organizations from letting her report on the region.
Meet journalist Latifa Abdel-Latif. She’s just been arrested by Israeli police on suspicion of inciting and supporting terror.
According to her Instagram bio, she’s worked for major media outlets, including @Reuters, @ABC & @BBCNews.
https://t.co/cxDg0LXJyT pic.twitter.com/Im6QpGgEzP
— HonestReporting (@HonestReporting) March 17, 2025
Police said that Abdellatif’s suspected post about Sinwar, the mastermind of the October 7, 2023, massacre in southern Israel, showed the arch-terrorist speaking “about the greatest gift that the enemy could give him: to die and ascend to heaven before God as a martyr,” with a caption that reads in Arabic, “wants to die as a martyr.”
It should obviously ring alarm bells that Abdellatif was among the contributors to a profile piece about Sinwar for ABC News.
Another of Abdellatif’s posts, according to police, included a photo of the body of terrorist Hassan Qatani wrapped in a Hamas flag, with the caption: “Raise the camera on your shoulders and document the situation. You are leaving with burdens that you can no longer carry.”
Qatani was one of two terrorists who killed British national Lucy Dee and two of her daughters in a 2023 drive-by shooting.
In other posts by Abdellatif, police said, videos were found featuring terrorists from the Jenin Brigades with the caption “Only God can make them drop their weapons,” and terrorists from the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine praising all factions fighting against the “occupier.”
But it seems her bosses in Western media either didn’t know or didn’t want to know about these posts.
Reuters’ database contains over 150 multimedia items shot by Abdellatif, including many from eastern Jerusalem and the Temple Mount and Al-Aqsa compound.
But a search of her Facebook profile reveals dozens of biased videos from Al-Aqsa. One of them, from 2017, shows a group of Jewish visitors to the Temple Mount whom she labels as “settlers” who should not be allowed entry:
I remember exactly a year ago, the settlers could barely walk around Al-Aqsa… Now, not only are they walking, but they are also praying and even prostrating on the ground!
But the one thing we are all certain of is that no matter what they do or try, Al-Aqsa has always been and will always remain for Muslims alone, by the command of Allah, the Almighty!
#AlAqsaMosque
Can a person with such views report objectively on one of the most sensitive sites in the world? The answer should be clear to any news outlet that respects its consumers.
It’s now up to the Israeli justice system to judge whether Abdellatif’s posts amount to incitement or not under Israeli law. Irrespective of the result of any investigation and subsequent trial, the posts demonstrate bias that compromises her ability to call herself a journalist.
She did not need to get arrested for her news outlets to notice that.
The author is a contributor to HonestReporting, 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 False Dawns, Gazans Hope Trump Will Force End to Two-Year-Old War
Palestinians walk past a residential building destroyed in previous Israeli strikes, after Hamas agreed to release hostages and accept some other terms in a US plan to end the war, in Nuseirat, central Gaza Strip October 4, 2025. Photo: REUTERS/Mahmoud Issa
Exhausted Palestinians in Gaza clung to hopes on Saturday that US President Donald Trump would keep up pressure on Israel to end a two-year-old war that has killed tens of thousands and displaced the entire population of more than two million.
Hamas’ declaration that it was ready to hand over hostages and accept some terms of Trump’s plan to end the conflict while calling for more talks on several key issues was greeted with relief in the enclave, where most homes are now in ruins.
“It’s happy news, it saves those who are still alive,” said 32-year-old Saoud Qarneyta, reacting to Hamas’ response and Trump’s intervention. “This is enough. Houses have been damaged, everything has been damaged, what is left? Nothing.”
GAZAN RESIDENT HOPES ‘WE WILL BE DONE WITH WARS’
Ismail Zayda, 40, a father of three, displaced from a suburb in northern Gaza City where Israel launched a full-scale ground operation last month, said: “We want President Trump to keep pushing for an end to the war, if this chance is lost, it means that Gaza City will be destroyed by Israel and we might not survive.
“Enough, two years of bombardment, death and starvation. Enough,” he told Reuters on a social media chat.
“God willing this will be the last war. We will hopefully be done with the wars,” said 59-year-old Ali Ahmad, speaking in one of the tented camps where most Palestinians now live.
“We urge all sides not to backtrack. Every day of delay costs lives in Gaza, it is not just time wasted, lives get wasted too,” said Tamer Al-Burai, a Gaza City businessman displaced with members of his family in central Gaza Strip.
After two previous ceasefires — one near the start of the war and another earlier this year — lasted only a few weeks, he said; “I am very optimistic this time, maybe Trump’s seeking to be remembered as a man of peace, will bring us real peace this time.”
RESIDENT WORRIES THAT NETANYAHU WILL ‘SABOTAGE’ DEAL
Some voiced hopes of returning to their homes, but the Israeli military issued a fresh warning to Gazans on Saturday to stay out of Gaza City, describing it as a “dangerous combat zone.”
Gazans have faced previous false dawns during the past two years, when Trump and others declared at several points during on-off negotiations between Hamas, Israel and Arab and US mediators that a deal was close, only for war to rage on.
“Will it happen? Can we trust Trump? Maybe we trust Trump, but will Netanyahu abide this time? He has always sabotaged everything and continued the war. I hope he ends it now,” said Aya, 31, who was displaced with her family to Deir Al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip.
She added: “Maybe there is a chance the war ends at October 7, two years after it began.”
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Mass Rally in Rome on Fourth Day of Italy’s Pro-Palestinian Protests
A Pro-Palestinian demonstrator waves a Palestinian flag during a national protest for Gaza in Rome, Italy, October 4, 2025. Photo: REUTERS/Claudia Greco
Large crowds assembled in central Rome on Saturday for the fourth straight day of protests in Italy since Israel intercepted an international flotilla trying to deliver aid to Gaza, and detained its activists.
People holding banners and Palestinian flags, chanting “Free Palestine” and other slogans, filed past the Colosseum, taking part in a march that organizers hoped would attract at least 1 million people.
“I’m here with a lot of other friends because I think it is important for us all to mobilize individually,” Francesco Galtieri, a 65-year-old musician from Rome, said. “If we don’t all mobilize, then nothing will change.”
Since Israel started blocking the flotilla late on Wednesday, protests have sprung up across Europe and in other parts of the world, but in Italy they have been a daily occurrence, in multiple cities.
On Friday, unions called a general strike in support of the flotilla, with demonstrations across the country that attracted more than 2 million, according to organizers. The interior ministry estimated attendance at around 400,000.
Italy’s right-wing government has been critical of the protests, with Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni suggesting that people would skip work for Gaza just as an excuse for a longer weekend break.
On Saturday, Meloni blamed protesters for insulting graffiti that appeared on a statue of the late Pope John Paul II outside Rome’s main train station, where Pro-Palestinian groups have been holding a protest picket.
“They say they are taking to the streets for peace, but then they insult the memory of a man who was a true defender and builder of peace. A shameful act committed by people blinded by ideology,” she said in a statement.
Israel launched its Gaza offensive after Hamas terrorists staged a cross border attack on October 7, 2023, killing some 1,200 people and taking 251 people hostage.
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Hamas Says It Agrees to Release All Israeli Hostages Under Trump Gaza Plan
Smoke rises during an Israeli military operation in Gaza City, as seen from the central Gaza Strip, October 2, 2025. Photo: REUTERS/Dawoud Abu Alkas
Hamas said on Friday it had agreed to release all Israeli hostages, alive or dead, under the terms of US President Donald Trump’s Gaza proposal, and signaled readiness to immediately enter mediated negotiations to discuss the details.