{"id":521072,"date":"2021-05-18T09:50:18","date_gmt":"2021-05-18T13:50:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=521072"},"modified":"2021-05-18T09:50:21","modified_gmt":"2021-05-18T13:50:21","slug":"blinken-confirms-us-received-information-on-israeli-claim-that-hamas-operated-out-of-destroyed-media-building","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/blinken-confirms-us-received-information-on-israeli-claim-that-hamas-operated-out-of-destroyed-media-building\/","title":{"rendered":"Blinken Confirms US Received \u2018Information\u2019 On Israeli Claim That Hamas Operated Out Of Destroyed Media Building"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fblinken-confirms-us-received-information-on-israeli-claim-that-hamas-operated-out-of-destroyed-media-building%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=521072&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/GettyImages-1232670780-1-scaled-e1621343911504.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"  style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<aside id=\"right1forarticles\">\n<\/aside>\n<div id=\"ob-read-more-selector\" readability=\"38.643327841845\">\n<p>Secretary of State Antony Blinken confirmed to reporters Tuesday that the U.S. received intelligence from Israel regarding its claim that the terrorist group Hamas operated out of a building housing media outlets in Gaza.<\/p>\n<p>An Israeli airstrike took down a multi-story building that in part housed media offices for The Associated Press (AP) and Al Jazeera on Saturday. The move was widely decried, with AP President and CEO Gary Pruitt saying in a <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/israel-middle-east-business-israel-palestinian-conflict-f595d0ea0a7e21a4e4974ae55e00024d?utm_campaign=SocialFlow&#038;utm_source=Twitter&#038;utm_medium=AP\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">statement<\/a>\u00a0that \u201cthe world will know less about what is happening in Gaza because of what happened today.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Israel has remained firm in its <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/05\/15\/israeli-airstrike-gaza-building-al-jazeera-associated-press-offices\/\">reasoning<\/a> for the attack, with authorities declaring that the <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/05\/13\/israel-idf-invades-gaza-rocket-attacks-ground-troops-airforce\/\">building<\/a> housed \u201cmilitary assets belonging to the military intelligence of the Hamas terror organisation.\u201d A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/israel-showed-us-smoking-gun-on-hamas-in-ap-office-tower-officials-say-668303\">report<\/a> from the Jerusalem Post cited a senior diplomatic source who said the country showed the U.S. \u201csmoking gun\u201d evidence that Hamas was operating out of the building.<\/p>\n<p>Blinken said Monday that he personally had \u201cnot seen any information provided\u201d regarding intelligence backing up Israeli\u2019s claim. One day later, the Secretary of State told reporters the U.S. did receive \u201csome further information from intelligence channels,\u201d according to The Washington Post\u2019s John Hudson. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/05\/17\/benjamin-netanyahu-israeli-airstrike-associated-press\/\">(RELATED:\u00a0Netanyahu Says The AP Was Warned About Airstrike. Blinken Says He Hasn\u2019t Seen Evidence Of Hamas\u2019 Presence In Building)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" readability=\"11.531914893617\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Senior State Department Official on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SecBlinken?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@SecBlinken<\/a> remarks:<\/p>\n<p>The Secretary was referring only to what he personally had seen. As he made clear, any such information would be provided to others in the administration, not directly to the Secretary of State. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/israel?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#israel<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/gaza?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#gaza<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/HRmq5TdCfe\">https:\/\/t.co\/HRmq5TdCfe<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ruffini (@EenaRuffini) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EenaRuffini\/status\/1394281594031071236?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 17, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Blinken declined to comment further and it\u2019s unclear what intelligence was shared.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" readability=\"10.57003257329\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Blinken says the US \u201creceived some further information from intelligence channels\u201d from Israel on its bombing of the high-rise building in Gaza with international media offices (AP, Al Jazeera et al). But he says \u201cthat\u2019s not something I can comment on.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 John Hudson (@John_Hudson) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/John_Hudson\/status\/1394626951713800199?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 18, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div id=\"\/10519169\/dailycaller_inline1\" class=\"ad\" data-google-query-id=\"CK77ieqh0_ACFc0EaAgdFbEF6g\" readability=\"11.578274760383\">The White House has been tight-lipped about this alleged intelligence, with White House press secretary Jen Psaki telling reporters Monday that she would not <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kaitlancollins\/status\/1394328689043808270?s=20\">comment<\/a> about whether President Joe Biden had seen any such information. The situation comes amid increasing conflict between Israel and militants in <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/05\/11\/israel-gaza-hamas-militants-children-dead-rockets-airstrike\/\">Gaza<\/a>.<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Secretary of State Antony Blinken confirmed to reporters Tuesday that the U.S. received intelligence from Israel regarding its claim that the terrorist group Hamas operated out of a &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2278400,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/GettyImages-1232670780-1-scaled-e1621343911504.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Blinken Confirms US Received \u2018Information\u2019 On Israeli Claim That Hamas Operated Out Of Destroyed Media Building","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-521072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/GettyImages-1232670780-1-scaled-e1621343911504.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Blinken Confirms US Received \u2018Information\u2019 On Israeli Claim That Hamas Operated Out Of Destroyed Media Building","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521072","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=521072"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521072\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2278400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=521072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=521072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=521072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}