A Hamas spokesman admitted that journalists who were caught filming in places where Hamas was firing rockets were forced to stop and were deported from the Gaza Strip, according to the Jerusalem Post.
Spokesman Isra Al-Mudallal said that any journalist filming rockets being fired from Gaza was "collaborating with the occupation."
According to a new report by MEMRI (the Middle East Media Research Institute, Mudallal, told the Lebanese TV station Mayadeen TV by Skype that some journalists "would focus on filming the places from where missiles were launched."
"Thus, they were collaborating with the occupation," said Mudallal, the head of foreign relations in the Hamas Information Ministry. [...]
Hamas security personnel would give the journalists "some time to change their message" and "one way or another" they would be forced to change their reporting.
The spokesperson went on to say Hamas had some of the journalists "under security surveillance" and were able to reach them despite the ongoing war with Israel.