Zechariah 12:3 “And in that day will I make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all people: all that burden themselves with it shall be cut in pieces, though all the people of the earth be gathered together against it.”
Editor's Note: Jim Bakker teaches to watch Israel closely because it is the prophetic timeclock for the unfolding of Last Days events. In Matthew 24, Israel is the fig tree that the Lord told His people to observe to understand the times. It is like a barometer of what is happening in the nations.
A Hamas official made a major blunder Thursday in admitting they were taking steps to control the media and the images that were released from Gaza during their attacks on Israel.
The head of foreign relations for Hamas’ Information Ministry, Isra Al-Mudallal, was responding to an Arabic reporter and said that some foreign press were trying to “collaborate with the occupation” by showing Hamas terrorists.
“These journalists were deported from the Gaza Strip,” al-Mudallal said. “The security agencies would go and have a chat with these people. They would give them some time to change their message, one way or another.”
“We suffered from this problem very much,” she added. “Some of the journalists who entered the Gaza Strip were under security surveillance. Even under these difficult circumstances, we managed to reach them, and tell them that what they were doing was anything but professional journalism and that it was immoral.”
The Foreign Press Association says they have evidence that Hamas would screen any reporter attempting to enter Gaza and would use troops to block those who they felt were too pro-Israeli in their reporting.
“Some reporters received death threats. Sometimes, cameras were smashed. Reporters were prevented from filming anti-Hamas demonstrations where more than 20 Palestinians were shot dead by Hamas gunmen,” the FPA reported.
