Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz sought to dispel concerns over recent comments by the Israel Defense Forces’ chief of staff, Lt. Gen. Aviv Kochavi, about Western journalists’ use of a building also allegedly used by Hamas in the Gaza Strip.
Kochavi was quoted by Israel’s Channel 12 news on Sunday as saying that Associated Press and Al-Jazeera journalists whose offices were in Gaza’s al-Jalaa building likely drank coffee with Hamas electronic warfare experts in the building’s cafeteria, either wittingly or unwittingly.
