The News You Didn’t Hear About This Week: Friday, February 27, 2026

By: Jennifer Kouzi February 27, 2026

Famously, the slogan “All the News That’s Fit to Print” graces the front page of every New York Times edition. The slogan was coined at the end of the 19th century by the paper’s publisher, Adolph Ochs. Of course, in today’s hyper-globalized world, the slogan is wishful thinking. No paper could realistically cover all the important news stories of the day.

Still, it would be hard to argue that outlets like The New York Times, The Washington Post, CNN, and others adequately cover even those stories they do print. They often devote precious space to emotive or opinionated claims, while omitting highly material and relevant information that sheds important new light.

Provided below are three important (or in this week’s case, two important and one humorous), but underreported, stories from the week bearing on Israel and the Middle East that media consumers should know.

1) Hamas Lawyer Who Pushed for ICC Arrest Warrants Indicted in France for Money Laundering to the Terror Group

France-based, Jordanian-barred lawyer for Hamas, Khaled Al-Shouli, who submitted evidence to prod disgraced Chief International Criminal Court (ICC) Prosecutor Karim Khan to issue arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and other Israeli leaders, is among five formally charged by a French court for transferring money to Hamas, a proscribed terrorist organization, under the guise of humanitarian aid.

The Jerusalem Post reported that upon review of material and evidence obtained in a search conducted by the National Anti-Terrorism Prosecutor’s Office (PNAT) on Jan. 31, 2024, a second search was conducted on Feb. 16, 2026, at which time Al-Shouli and his co-conspirators were taken into police custody. On Feb. 20, 2026, PNAT requested a judicial investigation be opened with regard to financing a terrorist enterprise and related charges. 

Al-Shouli’s alleged involvement in this terror-supporting scheme is notable as he was a key member of a group of 600 lawyers worldwide who submitted evidence to the ICC in a bid to have warrants issued for Israeli leaders, though this was not the first time he pushed for such prosecution. He also represented alleged victims of Israel in an August 2024 petition he submitted to the ICC.

This is not Al-Shouli’s first rodeo in working to raise money for Hamas. For years he was the head of two French Palestinian-related associations (CBSP and ASP), which were designated as terrorist entities by the U.S. in 2003, alleged to have raised funds for Hamas. 

In 2014, Al-Shouli was victorious in a court battle to remove Hamas from the European Union’s list of designated terror groups (though the decision was reversed three years later).

According to reporting by The Jewish Chronicle, on an Algerian channel on Oct. 8, 2023, Al-Shouli stated the October 7 massacre was justified under international law.

News of the indictment, which has gone unreported in English-language media except mainly for Jewish outlets like The Jerusalem Post and Jewish News Syndicate, is just another example of the criminal figures surrounding the procurement of the arrest warrants for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant.  

The French indictment of Al-Shouli may also serve as highly relevant evidence in a lawsuit filed by the families of three Israeli former hostages against Karim Khan, the Chief ICC prosecutor who issued the warrants against Netanyahu and Gallant, alleging that he provided support for Hamas. The fact that Al-Shouli has been indicted for providing financial support to Hamas and provided “evidence” to Khan in support of the warrants is a significant development.

2) Palestinian Islamic Jihad Confirms MSF Employee in Gaza was Deputy Head of Military Manufacturing

Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), also known as Doctors Without Borders, is eating crow this month.

A little more than one week after MSF announced it had to suspend or reduce operations at some Gaza hospitals due to the presence of “armed, masked men,” Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) confirmed that deceased MSF physiotherapist Fadi Jihad Mohammed al-Wadiyya was, in fact, deputy head of PIJ’s military manufacturing unit. The IDF previously alleged al-Wadiyya was a PIJ terrorist in June 2024 at which time MSF stated the accusations were being taken seriously. 

In early 2025, the Israeli government promulgated new rules for aid organizations, requiring compliance by Dec. 31, 2025. In recent months, there has been intense media reporting and public statements by MSF regarding these new rules, particularly its “concern about the registration requirement to share personal information” about their Palestinian staff with Israeli authorities, which was particularly hypocritical given that NGO Monitor discovered such information had been given by organizations, including MSF, to Hamas. 

The CEO of MSF-USA appeared on MS NOW in January 2026 and said the Israeli allegations of terrorist infiltration of aid groups were “flimsy, unsubstantiated and being used to discredit organizations.”

Eighteen months after MSF issued its statement about al-Wadiyya, on Feb. 24, 2026, Palestinian Islamic Jihad confirmed the IDF’s claim about him. Flimsy? Unsubstantiated? MSF lost all credibility when it denied allegations of terrorist infiltration even in the face of proof furnished by the IDF. It has discredited itself.

A google translation into English of the original announcement.

Palestinian Islamic Jihad formally claimed al-Wadiyya as their own.

Also on Feb. 24, 2026, Jewish News Syndicate (JNS) published an article entitled “Three months after it shuttered, what was the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation.” In it, more bad press for MSF, as Rev. Johnnie Moore, who ran the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), alleged that doctors at Nasser Hospital, which he described as “controlled” by the World Health Organization and Doctors Without Borders, did not try and help 12 Gazan GHF volunteers who had been killed by Hamas.

Media has promoted MSF and allowed it to spew anti-Israel vitriol for decades, documented by CAMERA as far back as 2001. It’s no wonder that non-Jewish news organizations are completely ignoring this story, as it would force them to reckon with the fact that the organization about which they have waxed poetic has harbored terrorists.

It would also force the media to acknowledge that Israel was vindicated regarding its claims of terrorist infiltration at MSF. MSF has not yet acknowledged that its employee Nasser Hamdi Abdelatif Al-Shalfouh was a fighter and sniper in Hamas’ Jabalia battalion, nor has it acknowledged that its employee, Dr. Mahmoud Abu Nujaila, was head of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP)’s “health group” and openly supported PFLP, a designated terrorist organization.

3) Americans Have the “Pentagon Pizza Index” – Do Israelis Have the “Kirya Falafel Index?”

Did you know amateur foreign affairs analysts have been tracking pizza orders at the Pentagon to detect possible or imminent military action? The Israeli Air Force (IAF) knows – and is now looking to prevent the same type of speculation based on food delivery orders in Tel Aviv.

Among others, there is the Pentagon Pizza Index website and an account called “Pentagon Pizza Report” (@PenPizzaReport) on the social media “X” platform, which has more than 376,000 followers and describes itself as “Open-source tracking of pizza spot activity around the Pentagon (and other places).” Accounts like these monitor pizza orders so that armchair experts can predict some kind of military action is about to take place based on unusually high pizza orders to the Pentagon.

Sound silly? Well, apparently not.

While some (including former spokesman to the Israeli prime minister) have joked that that they plan to order thousands of pizzas to the Pentagon simply to skew results, the “Pentagon Pizza Index” has caught the attention of the Israeli Air Force (IAF) as it undoubtedly busies itself with preparations for the likelihood of imminent war with Iran.

On Feb. 25, 2026, ynet reported that the IAF recently instructed soldiers serving at the Kirya, Israel’s Pentagon equivalent, to stop ordering food directly from Wolt (similar to Uber Eats or Door Dash in the United States) to the central Tel Aviv base. Instead, soldiers were directed to meet the delivery person at a point outside of the base. The order was issued “due to concerns that a surge in orders on a particular night would indicate a large presence of soldiers at the base” which could reveal the increased likelihood of an attack on Iran, “similar to the ‘pizza indicator’ at the Pentagon.”

The U.S. Army and the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) share technology, intelligence, operational methods, and more. The U.S. Army has learned a tremendous amount from the IDF in terms of urban warfare, tunnel detection and medical innovations. The IDF has learned a lot from the U.S. Army as well, including the use of specialized equipment for underground combat, large-scale brigade training, and now, how to avoid operational leaks based on a high volume of food orders.

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