The "new," "reformed" Palestinian Authority Cabinet is not what you think. 🧵 The big conversation over who rules Gaza after the Israel-Hamas war ends is often centered around the Palestinian Authority.

Why are Gazans paying for free humanitarian aid? 🧵 Israel has facilitated the entry of over 300,000 tons of food to Gaza since the beginning of the war.

😵‍💫 Media narratives often obscure the truth... 🧵 Especially when journalists incorrectly translate quotes or leave out important details.

The numbers don't lie...unless they're from Hamas.🧵 Throughout the war, the media has uncritically parroted Hamas' casualty count, including the claim that 70% of casualties are women and children.

HonestReporting is being accused of being reckless and making baseless claims. So, we decided to lay out the timeline of events for you to decide...

HonestReporting identified Yousef Masoud as one of the photographers taking pictures early on the morning of October 7.

In that same expose, we explained that on October 7, Masoud was working for AP.

The New York Times wrote a story the following day explaining that Masoud "was woken at home in Khan Younis, in southern Gaza, by the sound of rocket fire, shortly after 5:30 a.m. on Saturday morning."

HonestReporting asked how he could have been woken by rocket fire at 5:30 a.m. when rockets did not start until 6:30 a.m.

Two days later, the New York Times issued a correction changing the time he was awoken to 6:30 a.m.

In that same article, they explain that his first photograph was taken more than 90 minutes after the attack began.

Yet the AP image database shows metadata confirming that the photo he took of Gazans standing atop a tank east of the security fence was created at 6:41 a.m. (13 minutes after the attack began).

In February 2024, the New York Times wrote a public letter to Itay Milner (the Spokesperson and Consul for Media Affairs at the Israeli Consulate in New York) falsely claiming that we said Masoud "began shooting pictures at 5:30 a.m."

They also explained that "Masoud, we know from the photographic evidence, began shooting photographs after 6:30 a.m. - from his home's rooftop with the fighting visible in the distance..." Yet, within 11 minutes he was photographing Gazans atop a tank in Israel.

Our original article led to subsequent investigations that credibly linked some photojournalists to terrorist organizations.

Given all of these discrepancies , it is entirely reasonable for HonestReporting to be raising these questions and holding Mr. Masoud, the @AP, and the @nytimes publicly accountable.

🧵for the receipts... This was the original expose that HonestReporting published on Nov. 8.

honestreporting.com/photographers-…

Let's talk about Hamas. 🧵 If you listen to them in English...

Hamas' Casualty Count: The Math Isn't Mathing 🧵 Every single civilian death is tragic and awful,

Since October 7, @washingtonpost’s coverage of Israel’s war against Hamas has been marred by its implicit anti-Israel bias as well as its downplaying of the danger posed by Hamas and Hezbollah.

We've put together a thread of some of their worst examples of bias 🧵 @washingtonpost After the IDF entered Al-Shifa hospital, The Post parroted Hamas’ claim that it was a “war crime” and then published an entire article dedicated to undermining Israel’s evidence that Hamas was using the hospital complex for terror purposes.

honestreporting.com/washington-pos…

If @guardian readers were expecting an actual "Explainer," they aren't going to get it here.

Let's take a look at why not. 🧵

theguardian.com/world/2024/jan…
Would a two-state solution necessarily "end the crisis?"

As far back as Yasser Arafat during Oslo, Palestinian leaders have made clear that a Palestinian state wouldn't be the end goal but merely a phase in the destruction of the existing Jewish state.

Meet Gazan photojournalist Ashraf Amra. He's been working for media including @AP & @Reuters.

Here he is on Oct. 7 enjoying fellow photojournalist Mohammed Fayq Abu Mostafa's footage of an IDF soldier being lynched after they both infiltrated Israel's border. And there's more.🧵 Abu Mostafa, a freelancer who has been working for Reuters, says: “We were there two hours ago, since the beginning” & details what he saw at the border & in Sderot.

He describes the breaking into a room where Israelis were hiding before being taken by Hamas terrorists.

Hostages for Prisoners

Returning women and children. Fair deal, right?

Not. Quite. 🧵

Collab with @AdinHaykin1 It's already happening. Sanitizing these prisoners. Presenting them as merely women and children or political prisoners. It's simply not the case.

Here's one

🤷‍ The nuance has clearly been lost 🧵 The ethical questions we were raising in our exposé were not whether the outlets themselves knew about Hamas' massacre in advance...

Why has @GlobalHealthBMJ decided to politicize healthcare with a paper so ridden with errors and bias that it defies belief that it past any editorial or peer review?

Here's a thread with some of the "highlights" 🧵
gh.bmj.com/content/8/10/e…
"More than 100 years of violence in occupied Palestine."

Is the BMJ implying that Israel has been an 'occupier' from before even 1948?

Denying Israel's right to exist in the opening line is not an auspicious start.

⛔ No, Jews are not storming "Islamic shrines."

Let's talk about it. 🧵 Many of Judaism's most important sites are located here.

On Saturday, three IDF soldiers & an Egyptian officer were killed on the Israel-Egypt border.

Reports of all three soldiers dying in an “exchange of fire” are inaccurate.

We’ve selected the key events to build a clearer picture.

Here’s what the IDF & Egyptian military said: 🧵 The IDF said:

After a drug smuggling incident, an Egyptian policeman likely entered Israel alone through a small gate in the early hours of Saturday.

Sources: Times of Israel, IDF spox

Why does @washingtonpost's Islamic Jihad profile feel like a whitewash of the terror group and a justification for its actions?

➡Islamic Jihad's commitment to Israel's destruction is omitted while this description of Israel leaves much to be desired. 🧵
washingtonpost.com/world/2023/05/… Despite @MiriamABerger's claims:
➡Egypt also controls access via its Gaza border.
➡Israeli border crossings were closed for safety reasons. Terrorists actually attacked them on Saturday.
➡Israel has issued over 15k work permits to Gazans.
➡Hamas is also responsible for Gaza.

.@RepRashida is hosting Nakba Day at the US Capitol.

But what does Nakba actually mean?

Our @chaim_lax has the scoop 👇 In Arabic, the term “al-Nakba” means “the catastrophe.” In the context of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the catastrophe that the “Nakba” is referring to is the founding of the State of Israel in 1948 and the disintegration of Palestinian Arab society.

It's less than a week since @nytimes told how Amnesty's Ukraine report was thoroughly discredited. (nytimes.com/2023/04/27/us/…)
So why would @satariano & @paulmozur trust Amnesty's latest to be any more reliable?

https://twitter.com/nytimesworld/status/1653285447580229633

And yet they still parrot Amnesty's false apartheid charges against Israel despite a thorough debunking by @NGOmonitor @Aizenberg55.
ngo-monitor.org/reports/amnest…

Victims of terrorism are NOT the same as terrorists.

So why did media outlets like @Reuters @CNN and @AFPmake a moral equivalence between the tragic murder of the Dee family and the death of a member of the Lions' Den terror group? Victims of terrorism are NOT the same as Palestinian terrorists.

A wolf in sheep’s clothing. B’Tselem presents itself as a human rights organization; however, its one-sided propaganda advocates for the end of the Jewish State of Israel. Here's a look at some of the myths they propagate. [THREAD] The NGO is known for spreading misinformation.

Let’s expose @VICE News's “investigation.” @VICENews One of @VICENews's reporters published a false claim that Israeli forces rioted during a protest at Al Aqsa, shooting dead a Palestinian. @HindHassanNews