NYT says new video undercuts Israeli medic’s account of sexual assault on October 7
The New York Times says it has seen video footage that undercuts the accounts of an Israeli military paramedic who claimed two teenage girls killed during Hamas’s attacks on October 7 were sexually assaulted.
The medic provided key testimony to The Times’s controversial December article, “‘Screams Without Words’: How Hamas Weaponised Sexual Violence on Oct. 7”. At the time, he was quoted as saying that he had discovered the bodies of two partially-clothed teenage girls in a home in Kibbutz Be’eri that bore signs of sexual violence.
The girls were among three alleged victims of sexual assault for whom The Times reported specific biographical information. The Times now says it has seen footage taken by an Israeli soldier who was in Be’eri on October 7 that “shows the bodies of three female victims, fully clothed and with no apparent signs of sexual violence, at a home where many residents had believed the assaults occurred”.
It says it contacted the paramedic again but he declined to say whether he still stood by his account, telling The Times that “he would like to put the attacks behind him”.
The Times’s report in December drew widespread criticism, with many journalists – including from within the paper’s audio division – arguing that key anecdotes in the article were unsubstantiated.
The family of the third person for whom The Times reported biographical information in the December expose have also contested the paper’s claims after the article’s publication.
So all their 'evidence' has been debunked, yet Israel still throws systematic rape accusations around to 'justify' genocide.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/28/world/middleeast/oct-7-attacks-hamas-israel-sexual-violence.html
ABC Australia staff’s concerns over Gaza bias revealed
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/3/26/australias-abc-staffs-concerns-over-gaza-bias-revealed
Staff at Australia’s national broadcaster warned that its coverage of the war in Gaza relied too much on Israeli sources and used language that “favoured the Israeli narrative over objective reporting”, according to internal communications.
An undated three-page summary of an editorial meeting, which Al Jazeera obtained via a freedom of information request with the ABC, sheds new light on bias claims that convulsed the outlet.
According to the document, staff detailed concerns that coverage displayed pro-Israel bias, such as by accepting “Israeli facts and figures with no ifs or buts” while questioning Palestinian viewpoints and avoiding the word “Palestine” itself.
