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Posted on 07/02/2025 4:24:30 AM PDT by Eleutheria5
A recent Haaretz exposé accusing the Israeli military of ordering troops to fire at unarmed civilians near food aid sites in Gaza relied on mistranslation, selective quotes, factual omissions, and contradictions to construct a narrative of unprovoked Israeli violence, according to independent observers interviewed by The Algemeiner.
Debunking the claim of indiscriminate fire by the IDF, the experts instead described widespread fear of Hamas, not the Israeli military.
The Haaretz report quickly gained traction in international media. Titled “’It’s a Killing Field’: IDF Soldiers Ordered to Shoot Deliberately at Unarmed Gazans Waiting for Humanitarian Aid,” it was cited by outlets such as NPR, CNN, and Reuters.
British military analyst Andrew Fox criticized the article for its framing and language. One of the discrepancies he pointed to was the shift in the English version of the story from soldiers firing “towards” civilians, as stated in the Hebrew original, to “at” them. The original Hebrew subheader also specified that soldiers were told to fire “towards” crowds “to distance them” from the aid sites, suggesting the shooting took place as a means of crowd control.
“It’s a matter of intent,” Fox told The Algemeiner. The phrase “‘at civilians’ means they are trying to kill them. It’s misleading because they’re firing warnings to avoid harm rather than shooting to cause harm.”
“Warning shots are something all armies do — we did in Afghanistan — but when you pull the trigger there’s always a risk of harm, and that’s not great,” explained Fox, a think tank researcher and former British Army officer. “Still, there’s a huge difference between that and deliberately targeting civilians.”
Colonel Richard Kemp, a former commander of British forces in Afghanistan, said that “shooting towards,” as in the original Hebrew, was “quite reasonable as a means to exercise crowd control...”
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So Israel DOES have “news” outlets as bad as the ones here...
A typical “Haaretz exposé” is nothing more than BS frequently.
There are very few innocents in Gaza-Just 80% voters for Hamas and young children schooled in Mein Kampf!
I believe there is even a corporate link between Haaretz and NY Slimes. What a surprise.
Maariv is little better. Yisrael Hayom is great, though.
Haaretz is the Israeli equivalent of CNN and New York Times, a left wing rag.
lol. You should have started your count with “infinity”!
🤔🤔🤔
Posting terrorist propaganda is a bad look for you.
And he only says what he “felt,” not what he observed that would form the basis of that “feeling”.
Sometimes the Times are inserted inside Haaretz and they’re sold together that way in the supermarkets.
Figures.
I’d trust the first hand account from an actual occupation soldier over the “independent observers” the article cites in their story.
He loves his left wing sources
Those are his fellow travelers.
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