Drop Site News Promotes Documentary on Refaat Alareer, Who Wrote “Most Jews Are Evil”
Drop Site News is promoting a Hamas-affiliated Quds News Network documentary lionizing Refaat Alareer, who praised the Oct. 7 attack and whose brother was identified as a Hamas military operative
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Drop Site News is promoting a documentary produced by Hamas-affiliated Quds News Network on deceased Palestinian writer Refaat Alareer on social media. The documentary, titled “Why Did They Kill Refaat?,” was promoted on Drop Site News’s X account and includes testimony from Ahmed Alnaouq, co-founder of “We Are Not Numbers,” and Asem Alnabih, an Al Araby TV correspondent in Gaza.
Refaat Alareer made numerous explicit antisemitic statements throughout his public career. In an Oct. 7 BBC interview, Alareer described Hamas' Oct 7 attack by Palestinian “resistance” as “legitimate and moral” and compared it to the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. In a November 2012 social media post, Alareer wrote directly: “are most jews evil? of course they are.”
Beyond his public statements, Alareer also has familial and institutional affiliations to Hamas. In 2013, Alareer served as a member of the Board of Directors for the Centre for Political and Development Studies (CPDS), a Gaza-based organization that functions as a Hamas venue.
Brother’s Role as Hamas Operative Concealed Through “Chicken” Narrative
A 2019 investigation by Jonathan Slosser, published in Israel National News, argued that Mohammed Rafiq Alareer had a “dual identity” as both a performer on Hamas-run Al-Aqsa TV and an operative in Hamas’s Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades. Slosser cited screenshots he said came from al-Qassam materials identifying Mohammed Rafiq Alareer as a “Mujahid Qasami.”
Slosser reported that Mohammed Rafiq Alareer was employed by Gaza’s Interior Ministry while also appearing on Hamas-run Al-Aqsa TV.
Mohammed Rafiq Alareer gained notoriety on Al-Aqsa TV’s children’s program “Tomorrow’s Pioneers” for playing the character Narhoul the Bee—not “Karkour the Chicken,” as later narratives claimed. In broadcasts documented by watchdog groups, the character explicitly encouraged Palestinian children to attack Jews.
In one segment, when asked what police do, Narhoul responded: “He catches thieves, and people who make trouble.” A child host then asked: “And shoots Jews. Right?” The on-air child responded: “Yes,” prompting Narhoul to cheer.
After his death in an Israeli airstrike in July 2014, Hamas’s al-Qassam Brigades website identified Mohammed Rafiq Alareer as “Mujahid Qasami” (a Qassam Brigades fighter) and memorialized him as having been “seriously injured and led to their martyrdom” alongside fellow operative Mus’ab Nafez Mohammed Al Ajlah. Both were killed when their house was targeted during Operation Protective Edge.
In a July 2014 Electronic Intifada essay, Refaat Alareer presented his brother as Karkour the Chicken, a children’s television character, without mentioning his role as a Hamas military operative. .
Featured Contributors Connected to Hamas-Linked Organizations
Ahmed Alnaouq, featured prominently in the documentary, is co-founder of “We Are Not Numbers“ (WANN), a storytelling platform. WANN is fiscally sponsored in the United States by Nonviolence International but is registered in Gaza under the umbrella of the Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor (Euro-Med).
Euro-Med’s founder and current chairman, Ramy Abdu, was subject to an Israeli administrative detention order in 2020 under Israel’s Counter-Terrorism Law due to alleged activities with iPalestine, designated by Israel as affiliated with Hamas. The organization’s former chairman, Dr. Mazen Kahel, was named in a 2013 Israeli government list identifying Hamas operatives and affiliated institutions in Europe. Watchdog organization Honest Reporting has described Euro-Med as a “Hamas front organization.”
In May 2026, Israel’s Ministry of Diaspora Affairs released a report alleging that Euro-Med played a role in anti-Israel legal and media campaigns, including through WikiRights projects and material cited in South Africa’s ICJ case against Israel.
The investigative outfit GnasherJew noted that Alnaouq’s brother, Ayman Alnaouq, was an active member of Hamas’s military wing, the Al-Qassam Brigades, and was killed in an Israeli airstrike in 2014.
Asem Alnabih, the Al Araby TV correspondent featured in the documentary, previously served as spokesperson and emergency committee member for Gaza Municipality, a municipal body operating in Hamas-governed Gaza.
How Drop Site News Amplifies a Sanitized Narrative
By promoting the Quds News Network documentary, Drop Site News is amplifying a carefully constructed narrative. The film presents an individual who praised Hamas, made extreme antisemitic statements, and held familial ties to Hamas operatives—while obscuring these documented connections and presenting him instead as a persecuted intellectual and writer.