Republican senators are pressing the IRS to coordinate with law enforcement agencies on investigating a nonprofit news outlet — telling the agency it should revoke the website’s tax-exempt status over it previously employing a since-killed Palestinian who held Israelis hostage in Gaza.
The little-known outlet, the Palestine Chronicle, is under the spotlight this week after the revelation that it published stories by Abdallah Aljamal, a former spokesman for the Hamas-run Palestinian Ministry of Labor in Gaza who was listed as a correspondent and contributor for the website. Aljamal, who also wrote for the Qatari-backed Al Jazeera website, was killed by Israeli military officials during the rescue of three hostages Aljamal was holding captive.
