On Thursday, the Guardian published their fourth article in a week shielding Hamas from evidence that the terror group desecrated an allied cemetery in al-Tuffah – containing 3,217 burials from WWI and 210 from WW2 – by using it for military purposes, while spreading the libel that Israel was the guilty party.
As we posted last week about the first two articles, despite including a statement from the IDF – buried deep in the otherwise one-sided, articles – noting that Hamas was fighting Israeli soldiers from within the cemetery grounds, and that the military destroyed a terror tunnel that run underneath the cemetery – the entire premise the Guardian pieces is that Israel, for no particular reason, attacked the historically significant grave site.
In fact, while the four articles, (Revealed: Israel bulldozed part of Gaza cemetery containing allied graves”, Feb. 4), (“Australia vows to repair ‘distressing’ damage to war graves in Gaza bulldozed by Israeli army“, Feb. 5) (“Her father’s war grave in Gaza was bulldozed by Israel. Amid the grief and anger, she wants answers”, Feb. 7), and (“Anthony Albanese raises bulldozed Australian war graves with Israeli president“, Feb 12), totaled over 4,500 words, the word “Hamas” was only used once – and only in a passing reference.
The word tunnel isn’t used even once in the four Guardian pieces.
Yet, on Nov. 1, 2025, the Daily Mail had already reported that Hamas had “used the last resting place of hundreds of British soldiers in Gaza to store weaponry for its war with Israel” The weapons were found, the Mail reported, “after the IDF destroyed a Hamas supply tunnel near the graveyard.”
The Mail quoted Major Wayne Owers, 54, a highly decorated former British Army bomb disposal officer, blaming Hamas, saying that he was “sickened” by it.
Further, independent researcher Salo Aizenberg showed – in an X thread – that a geolocation of the tunnel confirmed that the demolition occurred where the current damage is found.
Additionally, he shows, the IDF revealed photos of rocket launchers placed in the same cemetery, and noted that combat with Hamas took place there as well.
All of the evidence showing Hamas exploiting the cemetery was open-source information available to Guardian reporters if they cared at all about producing an accurate report.
Their four Gaza allied cemetery stories represent an apt illustration of the outlet’s broader post-Oct. 7 coverage: shielding the terrorist perpetrators of the worst antisemitic atrocity since the Holocaust from criticism and critical scrutiny, while promoting libels about Israel that fuel antizionist extremism in Britain.
(See CAMERA Hebrew’s translation of this post here)
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The siting of rocket launchers inside the graves was known in early August 2025 and disclosed on the web site of the IDF https://www.idf.il/media/zi3omuod/launcher.jpg?width=590&v=1dc07a953a40d80
and was also on the Web site of Israel National News on 7 August 2025 – https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/412910.
How come the Guardian never picked this up, nor for that matter at the time did any UK papers. Of course the blind BBC ignored it as usual as it did not fit their anti Israel narrative!
In fact good old BBC Verify on BBC news on line followed the Guardian’s allegation exactly a few days ago