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At the White House press briefing on Monday, Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre was asked for an official reaction to the news that Israel Knesset passed a law giving the prime minister the power to shutter foreign news networks, specifically aimed at Al Jazeera.She answered, "If it is true, if it is true, a move like this is concerning. We believe in the freedom of the press. It is critical. It is critically important. And the United States supports the critically important work journalists around the world do. And that includes those who are reporting in the conflict in Gaza. So...

Well, retracts is too strong a word, at least so far. Instead they have memory-holed the story, removing it from their website without having to admit that they were wrong. Anybody familiar with the war in Gaza had a right to suspect that the story was fabricated, not because sexual assaults don't happen in war, but because the story had the stench of propaganda all over it. Al Jazeera forced to retract fabricated story of IDF troops assaulting Palestinian women.The story accused, without evidence, Israeli troops of s**ually assaulting multiple Palestinian women in Shifa Hospital.The Qatari owned media outlet has...

The former director-general of the Qatari Al Jazeera network, Yasser Abu Hilala, clarified that the allegations of rape against IDF soldiers operating in Shifa Hospital were fabricated. "It was revealed through Hamas investigations that the story of the rape of women in Shifa Hospital was fabricated, Hilala wrote, adding that "The woman who spoke about rape justified her exaggeration and incorrect talk by saying that the goal was to arouse the nation’s fervor and brotherhood!" The woman who fabricated the rape libel, Jamilah al-Hasi, was interviewed last week by Al Jazeera. In the interview, she claimed that Israeli forces "raped...

Ukraine gets 80 000 Rockets! | Canada STEPS UP for Ukraine! | Ukraine War Update Artur Rehi 683K subscribers 24:19 Minutes The CRV7, short for "Canadian Rocket Vehicle 7", is a 2.75-inch (70 mm) folding-fin ground attack rocket produced by Bristol Aerospace in Winnipeg, Manitoba. It was introduced in the early 1970s as an upgraded version of the standard U.S. 2.75-inch air-to-ground rockets. In 2024 the Department of National Defence is considering donating the rockets to Ukraine as military aid to defend against the Russian invasion of Ukraine. An estimated 8,000 rockets have functioning warheads while the remainder could be...

New report details how Al Jazeera's Arabic channel has served as regime's public relations arm to spread its ideology. The sixth U.S.-Qatar strategic dialogue held Tuesday in Washington was overshadowed by Qatar’s role in financing Hamas terrorism, and its state-owned Al Jazeera network’s promotion of the movement’s war against Israel.

At least 112 Palestinians have been killed and more than 750 wounded after Israeli troops opened fire on hundreds waiting for food aid southwest of Gaza City. The incident unfolded at about 04:30 local time (02:30 GMT) on Thursday, when people congregated at Harun al-Rashid Street in Gaza, where aid trucks carrying flour were believed to be on the way.A convoy of aid trucks passed through the checkpoint, heading north, as people started gathering in large groups. According to the Israeli military, a convoy of 31 trucks entered Gaza but nearly 20 entered the north on Monday and Tuesday. As...

YosephHaddad: Al Jazeera journalist Ismail Abu Omar went in on October 7th together with Hamas terrorists to document the massacre in Nir Oz, he celebrated there and blessed and brought up shocking documents of abuse of Israeli bodies. 130 days after that the IDF bombed him and now he is badly injured without a leg and less smiling and happy...

On a laptop found by IDF soldiers in northern Gaza belonging to a 'journalist' of the Qatar-based news network Al Jazeera, photos and intelligence materials were found linking him to the terrorist organization. During an operation at one of Hamas' bases in the northern Gaza Strip, a laptop belonging to a journalist for the Qatari Al-Jazeera network, Muhammad Washah, was found to contain photos and intelligence materials linking him to Hamas, IDF spokesman in Arabic, Lt. Col. Avichay Adraee, announced Sunday evening

White House national security spokesman John Kirby had a fiery exchange with an Al Jazeera reporter over the popularity of the Biden administration's recent actions in the Middle East. At Monday's press briefing, Al Jazeera correspondent Kimberly Halkett began by pressing Kirby over whether President Biden had the authorization to launch attacks on the Houthi rebels in Yemen without congressional approval, following the terror group's escalation against U.S. troops and cargo ships in the region. Kirby responded by saying Biden has the authority under Article II of the Constitution to take such military actions and repeatedly insisted he is not...

The request published in "Al-Araby Al-Jadeed" comes after a serious injury to the Egyptian economy due to a decrease in the passage of ships in the Suez Canal • In Egypt they emphasize that the war has already given its signals on the Egyptian economy - not only in the issue of the Suez Canal, but also in the export of gas. The Houthi blockade of ships in the Red Sea is beginning to affect the revenues of the Suez Canal, which accounts for about 2% of Egypt's GDP. As a result, Cairo appealed to the Houthi rebels to focus...

Breaking: Video experts have confirmed that the footage aired by Al Jazeera today, which was purported to show injuries from #Israel's airstrikes in #Gaza, was in fact staged by the cameraman and Al Jazeera staff. The staging included poor acting, clearly fake blood, and… pic.twitter.com/NRvKgaxOVF— Amjad Taha أمجد طه (@amjadt25) January 22, 2024

MSNBC cancels Mehdi Hasan's show in major shakeup of its weekend lineup: Islamist "far-left" host has criticized Israel's war on Hamas and once compared non-Muslims to 'animals' and homosexuals to 'pedophiles'. It comes after Hasan's strong on-air criticism of Israel provoked backlash online. Formerly he hosted (propagated) at 'Al Jazeera' and 'The intercept.'In 2021, Hasan rushed to defend Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., who suggested the U.S. and Israel were just as guilty of "war crimes[sic]" as terrorist groups like Hamas and the Taliban.In April 2023, Mehdi Hasan lashed out after being fact-checked on twitter for his statements on racial...

On CNN's State of the Union on Sunday morning, host Dana Bash suggested to Biden national security adviser Jake Sullivan that Netanyahu might be intentionally prolonging the war in order to prevent an accounting to remain in office. "He knows that as soon as the war with Hamas is over, he's going to face questions that he's been putting off about the failure to prevent the October 7th attacks. Questions about his tenure as Prime Minister. Is there any concern inside the Biden administration that Netanyahu doesn't necessarily see it as being in his interest to end this war as...

Since Hamas' October 7, 2023 attack in southern Israel, in which some 1,200 Israelis were murdered and about 240 were kidnapped, Qatar's Al-Jazeera channel has been serving as a major mouthpiece for Hamas and the Iran-backed terror militias. This is part of Qatar's policy of extending support to Hamas and other terror organizations, including global jihad organizations such as Al-Qaeda. Al-Jazeera's bias in favor of Hamas, Hizbullah, the Houthis, and other terror organizations in the Iran-led resistance axis sparked criticism from Arab journalists and intellectuals who took to X (formerly Twitter) to slam the channel and its coverage. They called...

@visegrad24: Al-Jazeera reporter interviews a wounded elderly man at a Gaza hospital about how he got hurt. His answer? “Why is Hamas hiding among us civilians? Why don’t they go to hell and hide there instead?" The reporters quickly ends the interview…. Nov 14, 2023 https://twitter.com/visegrad24/status/1724534188097851587 WATCH: Gaza resident criticizes Hamas on Al Jazeera, reporter turns away and ignores him. By Maariv Online, Jerusalem Post Staff. Published: November 15, 2023https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/article-773289

A video clip from an Al Jazeera interview is circulating online after a reporter cut off the broadcast from a Gaza hospital as the patient made an unwelcome statement. The network’s correspondent was reporting from a Gaza hospital. During the live broadcast, he appears to abruptly end the interview with an injured Palestinian man. The man was cut off by the reporter as he started criticizing the presence of Hamas terrorists in the complex. The Al Jazeera reporter was at the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Gaza. The elderly Palestinian man told the reporter that terrorists were hiding among the wounded...

The US has launched retaliatory airstrikes on two locations in eastern Syria linked to Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps, the Pentagon has said. And "insane bureaucracy" at the Rafah crossing from Egypt into Gaza is slowing the delivery of aid to a "dribble", according to a UN official. An "insane" amount of bureaucracy at the Rafah crossing from Egypt into Gaza is slowing the delivery of aid to a "dribble", the head of the UN's World Food Programme has said. The number of lorries being allowed in is a fraction of that entering the territory before the conflict began. The United...

The Israeli Cabinet approved emergency regulations on Friday to temporarily shut down the Al Jazeera news network’s operations in the country. The measures will enable authorities to order television providers to stop broadcasting the outlet; close its offices in Israel; seize its equipment; shut down its website; and revoke press credentials for staff. “Israel is at war. On land, in the air, at sea, and in the mind. We will in no way allow broadcasts that harm the security of the state,” said Israeli Communications Minister Shlomo Karhi, who initiated the move. “Al Jazeera’s broadcasts and reports constitute incitement against...

Al Jazeera correspondent Dorsa Jabbari reported that “at least half a dozen” cities in Iran have seen protests break out in the wake of the hospital attack. From her vantage point in the capital Tehran, she explained that demonstrators moved from the city’s Palestine Square to the French Embassy, where they chanted against the violence. “There is the sense that this was something catastrophic,” Jabbari explained. “The Supreme Leader of Iran spoke earlier on Tuesday and he said once the Muslim countries, the Muslim nation and the people become angry, it is very hard to prevent them from expressing their...

Islamic Jihad failed rocket destroyed Gaza hospital al-Ahli. Naturally guilty Palestinian Hamas regime blamed Israel for their "accident", which triggered protests among the Arab world. The failed jihadists' missile was one of approximately 450 that land within the Gaza Strip. In fact, "radar detected outgoing rocket fire at the same moment the blast at the Gaza hospital occurred," In addition, Gaza-regime Hamas, often working with Islamic jihadists at rocket launchers had warned, one minute before the hospital explosion on an upcoming missile to reach Haifa, which didn't reach that city at the end, and missiles launched do trigger second explosions....