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US embassy in Israel accuses media of spreading ‘misinformation’

The US embassy in Israel has issued a statement criticising what it calls “media misinformation” related to Israeli military attacks on Gaza civilians seeking humanitarian relief.

The statement named The New York Times, CNN and The Associated Press, saying their reporting on Palestinians killed at aid distribution points run by the Israel-US-backed GHF was “false”.

“Drone video and first-hand accounts clearly showed that there were no injuries, no fatalities, no shooting, no chaos,” US Ambassador Mike Huckabee said in the statement.

“We are demanding an immediate retraction of the lies and are appealing to all media sources to act with objective professionalism to cover actual events instead of being a partner of terrorism by blindly following Hamas news releases,” it added.

Dozens of aid seekers have been killed or wounded while trying to get food from GHF distribution points over the past week while Israel maintains a crippling blockade on the bombarded enclave, where a famine looms.

Every accusation is an admission when it comes to Israel and now the US as well.


US congresswoman attacks UN chief over call to probe Gaza aid killings

Elise Stefanik, a US congresswoman, has attacked UN chief Antonio Guterres as an “anti-Semite”.

Stefanik – a staunch supporter of Israel – described as “outrageous” Guterres’s call for an independent investigation into the Israeli military’s deadly shootings of Palestinian aid seekers in Gaza over the past several days.

“This is outrageous and the culmination of morally bankrupt leadership as Secretary General of the UN,” she wrote on X.

As we’ve been reporting, the Health Ministry in Gaza says at least 75 Palestinians have been killed since the US- and Israel-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation began distributing limited food aid in Gaza last week.

Despite Israeli and US denials that Palestinians were shot dead while trying to get food parcels, witnesses have said Israeli soldiers opened fire on the crowds of desperate people.

Stefanik had been tapped by Trump to be the US ambassador to the UN, but her nomination was withdrawn in March to keep her congressional seat in the Republican Party’s hands.

Now it's outrageous and antisemitic to call for an independent investigation...