The Jerusalem Post also wasn’t quite buying that whole AP statement, based on past history.

After Operation Protective Edge in 2014, former AP reporter Matti Friedman wrote in The Atlantic: “Hamas understood that reporters could be intimidated when necessary and that they would not report the intimidation… The AP staff in Gaza City would witness a rocket launch right beside their office, endangering reporters and other civilians nearby – and the AP wouldn’t report it, not even in AP articles about Israeli claims that Hamas was launching rockets from residential areas.”

So, either they’re incredibly ignorant or they knew and they’re not being truthful. Either way, not a good look there, AP.