• jordanlund@lemmy.worldM
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    9 months ago

    This post was reported and removed as a duplicate of this post:

    https://lemmy.world/post/11845728

    While the subject line is virtually identical, and they both use the exact same photographs, this post contains additional context missing from the original post, which was simply an uncritical repetition of IDF messaging and tweets.

    "Israel’s government on Monday morning moved to shutter the Al Jazeera offices in Israel. A draft bill to close the local bureau passed in a telephone vote.

    The Qatari network is vehemently anti-Israel, and incites hatred and violence against the Jewish state in the Arab world, the Israeli government has long maintained."

    and:

    “U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken, during his Middle Eastern diplomatic swing, called the deaths of Hamza Wael Dahdouh, the son of the son of Al Jazeera’s Gaza correspondent Wael al-Dahdouh, and Mustafa Thuria an “unimaginable tragedy.” The statement came after Al Jazeera reported that two of its employees were killed in the strike on a vehicle in the Rafah area. The Qatari state media accused Jerusalem of deliberately targeting the freelance journalists.”

    Based on the additional background provided here, I’m restoring the post.

    Had it been simply another regurgitation of IDF talking points, I would have left it removed as a duplicate.