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, but underreported, stories from the week bearing on Israel and the Middle East that media consumers should know.
1) A Hamas Leader’s Son Targets Jews in Europe
Five suspects, described as part of a Hamas terrorist cell, have been arrested by European authorities since October. According to the authorities, the terrorists were planning attacks on Jewish targets across Europe. They possessed the means to do so, with multiple weapons and hundreds of rounds of ammunition being seized.
The plot, which has been in the works since 2019, has been “directly tied to senior Hamas leadership.” One of those detained, identified as only “Mohammed A.” by authorities, is according to German media reports actually the son of Basem Na’im, Hamas’s head of international relations.
While his son was involved in this plot to murder Jewish civilians abroad, Na’im was feeding narratives to Western audiences that Hamas does not target civilians. In March 2024 CNN paraphrased Na’im as saying “Hamas does not target civilians, but Israeli settlers armed with weapons…” In the days after the October 7 massacre, Na’im insisted to ABC News (Australia) that Hamas “gave clear instructions not to target civilians or not to harm civilians.”
Notably, another one of Na’im’s sons was recently killed during a Hamas operation targeting the Palestinian Doghmosh clan – part of a series of operations that have featured Hamas publicly executing Gazans.
Naim Basem Naim, the son of Hamas leader Basem Naim (lives abroad) was killed, allegedly by the Doghmush clan, Hamas’ Arrow Unit announced.
Separately, there were reports about his killing yesterday. pic.twitter.com/eygJa6pgzQ
— Joe Truzman (@JoeTruzman) October 13, 2025
The ease with which senior Hamas figures lie is telling. That Western media still relies on institutions like Hamas’s “Ministry of Health” – which Na’im himself used to run – is discrediting to the industry.
While a number of major Western outlets covered the initial arrests of a few of the cell members in October, only German outlets and Sky News have continued covering the deepening of the terror plot. Only the German outlet Welt has reported on the family connection to Basem Na’im. CNN reported on “Mohammed A.’s” arrest on Nov. 6, but without identifying his father.
2) A Gazan Hospital Doubling as a Torture Chamber
Yet another report has emerged of Hamas operating out of hospitals in the Gaza Strip. Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib, a Palestinian expert at the Atlantic Council and Council on Foreign Relations, shared publicly this week his correspondence with “a dear friend” and “humanitarian activist” who was arrested by Hamas, brought to al-Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, and tortured during his interrogation.
While media outlets continue describing Hamas’s use of hospitals as merely an “Israeli allegation,” notwithstanding the abundant publicly available evidence, none have reported on this latest allegation by Palestinians themselves.
3) A Qatari Conspiracy at the ICC
The International Criminal Court (ICC) is never short on scandal. Currently, it is embroiled in multiple sexual abuse scandals, including allegations made by a Malaysian staff member against the chief prosecutor, Karim Khan. Recent revelations now indicate that one of the alleged victims is now also being targeted by the Qatari government.
As reported by the Wall Street Journal, when the allegations were about to go public in 2024, Khan – in a surprise move – “abruptly canceled a trip to Israel and Gaza that he had previously said was important to make his decision” on whether to pursue prosecutions. The next day, he suddenly announced arrest warrants against two Israeli leaders. The sequence of events, and the inconsistent and seemingly dishonest nature of his remarks to foreign officials, has led many to believe the move was designed to “deflect” his sexual abuse scandal that was about to become public. Inevitably, the incident has further eroded what little credibility the ICC has left.
The political inconvenience of the scandal for Israel’s detractors has not gone without response, however. The Guardian – no friend of Israel’s – has now reported that “a high-level Qatari diplomatic unit” hired a private intelligence firm to “uncover links between” the Malaysian staff member and Israel in order to “undermine her credibility and the abuse claims she has made against the ICC prosecutor, Karim Khan.” Notably, the investigators met directly with representatives of Khan himself.
According to The Guardian, the intelligence firm could find no links between the alleged victim and Israel.
Other than The Guardian, only the New York Sun, Israeli and Jewish news outlets, and – bizarrely – an Iranian regime news outlet have covered the story.
Historical Context for Current Events
The Israeli Knesset is currently considering a proposed law, dubbed the “Al Jazeera Law,” which would empower the government to shut down the Qatari propaganda outlet’s operations in Israel. The law has been prompted by the abundant evidence of Al Jazeera directly collaborating with the terrorist organization Hamas and even employing its operatives as “journalists.”
But Hamas is not the only terrorist organization Al Jazeera has worked alongside.
Yesterday, November 13, marked 24 years since the U.S. military bombed Al Jazeera’s office in Kabul, Afghanistan. The U.S. Assistant Secretary of Defense at the time, Victoria Clarke, would state a few weeks later: “the building we struck was a known Al Qaeda facility in central Kabul.” Readers can make their own guesses as to why Al Jazeera was operating out of a known Al Qaeda facility.
Notably, the Qatari regime, which effectively controls Al Jazeera, has long been known to have ties to other terrorist organizations, too, such as “the Taliban, ISIS, the Muslim Brotherhood, and, reportedly, Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.”