Woeful misinformation being peddled by @trtworld, and recycled by @YahooNews.
1. Israeli planes have been striking *Hamas assets* in Gaza, not all of Gaza. Citing @AlJazeera should be a hint as to the credibility of the claim.
2. An Israeli missile did indeed hit a school in Gaza in mid-August. The missile, fired late at night when no students were around, did not explode.
A critical, even more important, point is whether terrorists were using the school for cover, in defiance of international law.
3. The tried-and-tested Hamas tactic of using schools, homes and hospitals for cover results in fewer terrorist deaths and the tragic death of innocents - something Hamas is responsible for under int'l law. The @Telegraph failed to disclose this vitally important context.
4. And that Telegraph headline is *not* from this year - deceitfully mislabeled as 23 June 2020 - it's actually from six years ago, when a war was being waged between Israel and Hamas terrorists in Gaza.
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How the media manufactured a “genocide.”
Zach Goldberg breaks down how the world’s most serious crime became a political weapon—and how media outlets helped it happen. 🧵
Mentions of “genocide” in relation to Israel have exploded—far beyond how the media treated actual, recognized genocides in history.
In The New York Times, coverage linking Israel and genocide was:
➤ 9x higher than for Rwanda
➤ 6x higher than for Darfur
Let that sink in.
“Why hasn’t there been a Palestinian state?”
Let’s talk about the peace deals that could’ve made it happen—and why they were rejected.👇
1️⃣ 1947 – The UN Partition Plan
Palestinians were offered statehood with the most fertile land.
Arab leaders said no. Then 6 Arab states attacked Israel.
Israel survived.
2️⃣ 1967 – Khartoum Summit & UN Resolution 242
After the Six-Day War, the UN proposed land-for-peace.
The Arab League responded:
“No peace. No recognition. No negotiations.”
End of conversation.
📰 No casualties. No bullet wounds. No injuries. No massacres.
But that's not how the media reported it...🧵
The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation's drone footage showed zero casualties, the IDF confirmed it, but media outlets still ran Hamas quotes as fact.
Why the influx of disinformation? Because Hamas is desperate to sabotage an aid system that bypasses its control, so it invented atrocities, and the media helped legitimize them.
🚚 Aid finally makes it to Gazans—but the headlines still miss the real story.🧵
The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation successfully delivered aid to thousands of Gazans. Israel only fired warning shots to keep order—no injuries, no deaths. Media spin? “Israel opens fire.”
Then Gazans stormed a flour stockpile. Hamas fired into the crowd, killing five, and boasted about it on Telegram. Media spin? “Deadly break-in at UN warehouse.” No mention of Hamas hoarding the aid or pulling the trigger.
Despite what this photo caption says, it does not show Dr. Alaa al-Najjar, the mother of children killed in an airstrike.
The photo in @guardian actually shows al-Najjar's niece (left) and brother-in-law with an as yet unidentified woman. 🧵
We know this is the niece as she is identified as such in a @Reuters video interview from inside the hospital.
Despite this, Reuters is currently selling the erroneously captioned photo that The Guardian used.
So is this Dr. Alaa al-Najjar in this @Reuters photo, a pediatrician who wears a niqab and is so strictly religious that she was allowed to train in medicine, and still had time to give birth to 10 children in little more than 11 years?
Because for @SkyNews' @AlexCrawfordSky, the barbaric terrorism against Israelis on Oct. 7, including the burning and mutilation of babies, was all just an overblown and exaggerated excuse for Israel to carry out a "genocide."