Recently rescued hostage sues US nonprofit connected to journalist who previously held him captive

Rescued hostage Almog Meir Jan, 22, is suing US nonprofit the People Media Project, which employed his Hamas operative captor as a war correspondent, reported the New York Post.

The Hamas captor, Abdallah Aljamal, contributed to several new outlets in the past, including the Palestine Chronicle.

“Under the leadership of Defendants [editor-in-chief] Ramzy Baroud and [People Media Project governor] John Harvey, Defendant Palestine Chronicle employed Hamas Operative Aljamal and offered him its US platform to write and disseminate Hamas propaganda, ultimately subsidized, through its status as a tax-exempt charitable organization, by US taxpayers,” the court filing set to be submitted to Washington state’s western district court reads, as cited by the report.

The filing says that the defendants “knowingly and willfully procured and disseminated Hamas propaganda to the Palestine Chronicle’s readers in the United States.”

Following a raid by Israeli special forces on the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza, Jan, along with Andrey Kozlov (27) and Shlomi Ziv (40), was rescued. They had been among those taken captive during the October 7 incident at the Nova outdoor music festival, during which terrorists massacred over 360 people.