{"id":27505,"date":"2025-08-13T00:00:49","date_gmt":"2025-08-12T21:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reganews.co.il\/en\/?p=27505"},"modified":"2025-08-12T15:23:30","modified_gmt":"2025-08-12T12:23:30","slug":"hostage-survivor-in-powerful-response-to-propaganda-there-are-no-journalists-there","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reganews.co.il\/en\/hostage-survivor-in-powerful-response-to-propaganda-there-are-no-journalists-there\/","title":{"rendered":"Hostage Survivor in Powerful Response to Propaganda: &#8220;There Are No Journalists There&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The comments by MK Ayman Odeh regarding the killing of a \u201cjournalist\u201d in Gaza sparked the outrage of Shlomi Ziv, one of the hostages freed from captivity. Ziv, who experienced life in Gaza firsthand, wrote on X: \u201cEveryone is Hamas \u2014 there are no journalists there who aren\u2019t Hamas, because they\u2019ll be killed if they tell the truth,\u201d and pledged to join efforts to remove Odeh from the Knesset.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Firsthand Testimony from Captivity<\/strong><br \/>\nZiv wrote that during his captivity, he was held by a man publicly presented as a journalist, whose father was a doctor \u2014 an example which, he said, shows Hamas\u2019s infiltration into every possible sector in Gaza, including civilian professions.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_27507\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-27507\" style=\"width: 799px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-27507\" src=\"https:\/\/reganews.co.il\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/F240625AMA24_pr.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"799\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https:\/\/reganews.co.il\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/F240625AMA24_pr.jpg 799w, https:\/\/reganews.co.il\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/F240625AMA24_pr-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/reganews.co.il\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/F240625AMA24_pr-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 799px) 100vw, 799px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-27507\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Shlomi Ziv returns home after being freed from Hamas captivity | Photo: Ayal Margolin\/Flash90<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Ziv\u2019s remarks went viral, reigniting public debate in Israel over the nature of \u201cjournalists\u201d in Gaza and Hamas\u2019s cynical use of civilian professions for propaganda and to conceal terror activity.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Determined to Fight<\/strong><br \/>\nZiv concluded his comments with a vow to do everything in his power to remove Odeh from the Knesset \u2014 a statement that gained widespread support on social media from those who saw in him a clear voice of someone who had personally endured the reality in Gaza.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">I was held by a journalist in captivity and his father was a Doctor!!!!!!!!<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 shlomi ziv (@shlomiziv86) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/shlomiziv86\/status\/1954790687502737743?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 11, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shlomi Ziv, who survived Hamas captivity, responded to MK Ayman Odeh\u2019s reference to a terrorist as simply a &#8220;journalist&#8221;, citing his own experience to assert that in Gaza \u201ceveryone is Hamas \u2014 there are no journalists who won\u2019t cooperate with terror.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":27506,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2241,2276,8,6],"tags":[2619,1476,1705,2822,6895],"class_list":["post-27505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-israel-advocacy","category-people","category-politics","category-security","tag-counterterrorism","tag-gaza","tag-israeli-hostages","tag-israeli-palestinian-conflict","tag-shlomi-ziv"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v22.7 (Yoast SEO v24.7) - 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