and they're very deep, so when you think it was split out the fire, it can ignite it at any moment unless the firefighters keep coming back and back again. they started simultaneously at exactly the same hour and 6 different places . this was no accident. the government appears to agree and bows to find and punish the culprits the. i'm how much enjoyment door, how these are the top stories on al jazeera. after weeks of political turmoil and protests, synagogues president market, sol has dissolved the government and set a date for the delayed presidential election. the decisions come hours after sun. a goal is the constitutional court ruled that the election must be held before president solves mandate. in next month, saul has also replaced the prime minister. i'm a do bar with the current interior minister. it's to allow bob who's the ruling coalitions, presidential candidate, to focus on his campaign. at least 5 people have been killed and is really attack

on a mosque engine barrier. in northern gaza and the center of this trip 7 people were killed in 14 wounded as they waited for food. 8, south africa is asked the u ins, top court to impose additional emergency measures against israel, which it says is breaching those already in place. south africa says palestinian children are starving to death as a direct result of israel's actions. israel's far right government, his approved plans to build 3 and a half 1000 new settler homes in the occupied westbank. the organization piece now says the units will be built in the legal settlements of molly. i do mean a fraud and kids are israel's far right. finance. minister, but it's a little small trench warrant of an expansion. after a shooting incident in one of the settlements, a few weeks ago. at least 3 sailors have been killed in a hurry with the attack on a cargo ship in the gulf of either that's according to us central command. the 1st faith holidays since hurt. these began his attacks on commercial shipping in

protest against israel's war on gossip. hades, capitol remains mostly paralyzed by violence with gains warning of civil war. if prime minister already, i'll only doesn't step down obvious, still in puerto rico, unable to return home, there's been a surgeon violence in the past week since he left the country in a bid for international aid. haiti's in the state of emergency the internet international airport in port a prince remains closed and most businesses have shut down. protesters in mexico have knocked down a door to the presidential palace while the president was inside, giving his daily press conference. they were demanding justice for 43 students who disappeared a decade ago. those of the headlines, the news continues here on al jazeera, after the listening post. thanks for watching the

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crimes in dogs? when is really, soldiers are documenting those prime cds and incriminating themselves? the sense is really launched. it's a salt on god's in october, many western news outlets have seen their credibility. take a hit accused by audiences and staff members, a like of succumbing to his really propaganda. that includes one of the world's best known publications, the new york times, and a tory, his case in point and investigation. the times published back in december. which alleged that from mazda, deliberately weaponized rape, and sexual violence on october 7th. those claims have since been on substantiate. if not disapproving, revealing the times is pro, is rarely anti palestinian bias and leaving the papers. news room, a ribbon by descent, but for the times is critics including some of its former reporters. the article is that mirrors symptom of an age old problem,

a persistent double standard in the stories that paper deems fit to print on israel and palestine. and those, it does not. the role of the new york times is not defined by of circulation is defined by the fact that it sets the agend. that's number one. number 2, most newspapers do not have foreign bureaus and so they will run the times foreign coverage. so that's the power of the times and sets the agenda starting with something that is definitely not breaking the with the american newspaper of record . the new york times has a track record of supporting is really what is new are the states. israel is on trial for genocide at the international court of justice court to which propaganda effort has been framing come off as a times on october 7th, as extraordinarily sadistic like something out of the crisis. playboy because the

wholesale mexican mutilation raped that abduction of as many citizens as the terrace could find enter the times. and this story published in late december. it accused palestinian militants of webinar thing, rape and sexual violence systematically on the lease yard on is really women and men of lowered allegation, a sensational story, but one that the evidence simply fails to support when the new york times said, we've done a 2 months long investigation, we interviewed a $150.00 people and we found abroad passive sexual violence on october 7th, sat for lots of people. just closed the case. if the new york times is saying it, then it must be true. i even had friends who know how much israel misrepresents

things and lies. hope said ali, now surely, you have to give some credence to what to say, but it's a case of journalistic fraud because it just doesn't deliver the goods. the principal criticism lies within the main claim, which is that not only did sexual assault and occasions of rape occur, but that they were used systematically since not report has been published. major flaws have emerged, not just in the content itself, but also when it comes to the actual journalists and authors behind the report. it's alternative us news outlets. subscriber funded ones like mando finds our tronic intifada. and the gray zone went to work debunking the times. this story, they noted the article contained 0 direct testimony from victims. that the alleged eye witnesses, the paper quoted, were either anonymous or of dubious credibility that the family of

a woman killed on october 7th disputed the times as a search that she had been raped. another of the times of sources accused the reporters of pressuring them to speak, saying it was important for israel's p r. f. one of the reporters involved and not schwartz had never filed a new story before october. second, she is a filmmaker whose wikipedia page said she had worked for his reading. intelligence had the times done its homework, its editors would've known that schwartz's social media accounts revealed. she had liked some disturbing posts, including one advocating turning gaza into a slaughter house. a post to south africa included in its case against israel at the icy check. not that the story was short as i d. a she explained to is really army really. i know kind of them out born that thing kid and really much we need to

that that your mail to you my show am womack color, so that's awesome. manning and i was like a to columbus got a corner measurement. it was an odd way for such a report to come to get still the times published it. and showcase imagine it was the other way around. any palestinian who whispers, something that is considered politically incorrect is out in the 2nd and you have this person who worked for the israeli intelligence. it was an a journalist and who liked on social media. these blood curdle lane calls for the death summation of palestinians in gaza. and that's the person you hired a report on your store disparity between the standards, staggering the new york times article had an enormous impact. i've seen it cited repeatedly, even by some human rights organizations. but i have to say,

i think that it had less influence then it might have had if independent media outlets had not exposed the flows in the new york times is used to getting away with this. and this time they did the critics of that times report included people on the inside the papers podcast. the day we planned to produce a version of the store but dropped the project. following descent in the news room over concerns about the journal is roughly 6 weeks later, when you and officials highlighted, quote unquote, credible allegations that is really is had raped or sexually assaulted palestinians . they have imprisoned, including children. the times failed to cover the story. then there was the writing, the paper has published by thomas freed, a former jerusalem bureau chief turned columns. friedman, infamously, backed the 2003 us led invasion of iraq that was based on lines and did so in the

most offensive cavalier way. and what they needed to see was american boys and girls going house to house from boshra to baghdad. and basically say, well stop on this. ok. this time around friedman can come to the coma. comparing the middle east to an animal king with america cast as an old life, iranians as wasps. and for moss as some kind of spite. when keith like coons, the palestinians, and various other players and the regions to animals, it's terrifyingly offensive. at the time when the israelis are saying that the palestinians and gaza are human animals and even more offensive than that is treating a situation like this. as some kind of fables from bonnie odd story ross's are

actually understanding the reality of the palestinians that this is an oppressed people. this isn't occupied, people is classic colonialism, classic racism. and wherever you look in a similar colonial project, the british and can you or india, they smoke in the same language. and they used overwhelming force to subdue a population that they considered less than human and only capable of understanding violence. friedman in the rack was the famous one who said, we hear the rock because we could, thomas friedman is one of the spokes people for that twisted etiology. and that's why he does as well as he does. the new york times is not alone and failing. it's american audience on the gaza story. there was the wall street journal report on

the israel's allegation that on the relief agency, so many palestinians depend on it, had been infiltrated by hamas. the paper swallowed israel's unsubstantiated side of that story, hook, line, and sinker. there's cnn and the fake news be headed babies married babies and toddlers were found with their heads decapitated. neither cnn nor the journal, however, are considered. america's news outlets of records. the way the times is, what should it, despite some worthwhile investigations since october 7th, like this one, showing the destruction cause of by 2000 pound is really bonds that does not begin to address. and in balance that goes back decades, lead on mistake about pro israel bias. coming out of the times is jerusalem bureau, where chris hedges worked in the early 2, thousands. you have had more than one case where the reporter assigned to

jerusalem b. as in bronner, for example, as children are serving in the id. yes. i mean, imagine that if a palestinian reporter would cover in gaza, his kids were in an armed wing of any palestinian faction. so i was sick on the one sided coverage. used vacation time to go to honda, eunice, and write a magazine piece for harper's called a guy's. a diary that was published and i was informed that i would never report again from the middle east for the new york times. i'm an arabic speaker by the way, they don't have a lot. so you pay a heavy price. if you attempt to report we requested interviews with numerous reporters as of times and as folks person said, all of them declined. instead, the paper set this state, we remains console in the accuracy of our reporting and stand by the teams investigation,

which was rigorously sourced and editors. we could have asked about the papers, famous motto, the one created in $1897.00, that's still a durance, it's masthead today. and perhaps suggested an edit. something like, all the news that's fit to print and something that clearly is germany is under a long shadow of censorship. when it comes to god's situation, that is so grand, it can be, can be the good times. the latest example came at a film festival in berlin, where and is really and the palestinian teamed up to win an award. i mean obviously, robbie is here with more the, the is one of the so called big 5 film festivals worldwide. and does a major cultural institution in germany. it was already facing criticism for that silence on the genocide and gaza service. the makers pointed out in protest and festively workers demanded the organizers called for the seas file. it all came to

a head when no other land assume about the ethnic cleansing and settling of protestant in villages in the west bank won the award for best documentary. the phone was quoted, acted by policy and inactive as deposit audra. and it's really fun maker. you while abraham, i am, is rarely by cities by the senior. and in 2 days we will go back to a land where we are not equally. i am living under a civilian law invest that is under military law. the situation was a part time between us to see any quality. it has to end. the festival quickly distanced itself from abraham's remarks, which were hardly contribution. the german press and politicians criticized abraham jewish is bailey calling his statement and to submit to buttons. man said the words would intolerable. the country's call to a minister who was criticized for applauding the same because then satisfied she was coughing only for abraham, all the noise it addicting. this example of the toxic climate in germany for any

discussion about the water and gaza. a billing based coalition of awesome culture workers call it an ever present documents, feel a feel. so censorship and suspicion on social media and in the workplace in institutions. and on the street is really media went all in on the story as well. so that's against the makers of no other land have intensified. and you value abraham, who says his family and israel has been targeted by his writing modes. says he's now to a face to go back home, back to me after a mazda is attacks on october, 7th is really leaders spoke openly about the annihilation of grass. they said there were no innocence there called palestinians animals with no right to exist. they were in sight of genocide, a message that was clearly heard on the battlefield because in one video after another is really soldiers have recorded their own war crimes celebrating as they moved at homes, destroyed houses, or set them on fire. filming, as they mocked humiliated and assaulted the palestinian captains, it is

a sign of the impunity. they think they have that so much of that material has been brazenly posted on social media. it's now in a way, palestinians have seen this kind of thing before going back to 1948, but never have the images. the videos been this wide spread explicit and barbaric. the listening post has collected some of that material and asked 3 experts on human rights and torture to assess it. first of you were warning. many of the images in this report are difficult to take in the

there has been a remarkable number of videos posted by is really soldiers on social media depicting themselves, pillaging property, mocking the death and destruction that they are causing. and most egregious lea, a torturing humiliating and mocking tone palestinian prisoners local, pre, pre,

the images of messrs of torture by the spinny ends of numbering their bodies, which is that i'm in a sense of images. one of us have seen from 131 ability, but this image is a testament to experience have long been saying, which is that this, this set to the gene is utterly violent. me. so the nature through which this genocide is unfolding in the gaza strip, they also show that seem vitality and torture environments. other disregards of human life, transforming these vitamins concepts and to expect to contribute and watched a on social media posts. they lacked specific intelligence about who actually might be from us and because they lack intelligence. they therefore are rounding up everyone in order to hope to extract information through interrogation. the fact that they've been stripped to their underwear is, you know, a manifestation of cruel in humane and degrading treatment,

which is also illegal in addition to torture. the fact that they're photographing these things, it's like trophy shots. what this to picks, i think very vividly is the humanize ation and torture. you know, the idea that somebody can be just like their body is just being attacked, you know, in their most vulnerable position. his hands are bound behind his back. he's lying face down. soldiers stepping on his face in a sensitive utilizes torture in general, purposely harming someone who's in custody. but custodial relationship is a particularly vulnerable one where you know, the custodians have all the power and the prisoner who is in this case not only on the ground and tied up but completely powerless. the images are showing us in thing us how sensitive imprisonment carson and practices are through the steps that could run energy towards a human nation and degrading con, bostic and spanish pinions is not simply restricted to the gaza strip. the also

images and videos that have been set up clicked and turned to us. since october 7, over 7000 students have the only thing which is the number on hand all over the past. the kid, the, he's rarely soldiers have quite remarkably taken to converting their masses really unprecedented destruction of palestinian homes, hospitals, mosques, university churches, into entertainment videos. there's

one video where is where the leaseholders are showing some residential homes that they've set on fire and attached to a song news. there have been many, many images of uh is rarely soldiers who ransacked palestinian homes and confiscated their personal goods. one in particular is the red negotiate that appears to be seen. and so many is rarely videos where is rarely, soldiers are mocking and advertising. they are very deliberate intrusion of the home of a palestinian woman, the confiscation of her most intimate apparel and flaunting that in a way that's desperately intended to be provocative and humiliating. the videos

further reinforce a discourse that is coming out of every sector of the israeli official machine in clear haul palestinians are the enemy, the dumb logging bit. many officials have said they deserve to be eliminated. when you see it manifestation in that kind of want to be, you know, that soldiers are expressing as they destroy palestinian homes. and there is a consumption of this kind of image that kind of fortifies the anger, the hatred, the anti palestinian sentiments and the kind of complete disregard of the humanity of palestinian civilians. there is such a high level of confidence among these idea of soldiers that they can do whatever they want to say to the whole world. look at what we're doing to palestinians, and gosh, look at how we are lising detainees. look at how we're humiliating every

single man, woman and child, as we destroy their homes, set fire to them and make fun of it. and they are provoking and challenging the whole world to say we can do this, we can get away with it. and no one in the world can stop us, no is riley, has found themselves sanctioned by the international community by countries that have these tools, which again has only reinforced the belief of israeli soldiers that they are immune, that they are exempted from complying with international laws. from basic human rights laws that they are above the law. the

since the beginning of this inside the war is that of us have been caught up who are the service. they are then fired the portion of the state of society. there are the chairs, professors, to the doctor's methics artist cried, there's journeyman is these images the are not only directed to a small audience, they are directed to brought the audience is amongst black. this is video visualizing and the humanizing but his opinions, these images, and these, the view is entirely sure how it is really violence is also not the only direct as though it's, but it's been the livelihood, but also the material being so that houses did their belongings really mean anything, but it's been in existence, but it has taught us that the human is ation of subjects is essential because i'm fixing the violence, i think is a, it has

a perfect fit. this in this course and in practice. but this is nothing new. it dates back to the beginning of this state through which by the student in so would expect to degree that human a sense of killed and effectively forcibly disappear. and finally, this past week, more than 50 international broadcast journalist signed a letter calling for free and unfettered access to gaza. the letter was addressed to the states responsible for cutting off the strip from the outside world, israel and egypt. since october 7th, only a few 4 and reporters have made it into god's most of those imbedded with these ready military. and they were not allowed to speak with palestinians, which left us to rely on the courageous work of local journalists and unprecedented number of them. have paid with their lives. it is long past time, but israel and egypt let journalists in the awful scenes this past week and gauze,

a city. these randy militaries massacre of more than a 100 palestinians who were lining up for food. simply underlines how important that journal this to access can be. what's the next time here at the listening post? the latest news as it breaks. and i think it's very blue case. the used to be able to face up to 37 kilometers out to the same spot, know any more from the hall. so the story, this is how this experience is waiting for the 3 of your patients fall at the tax illegal supplements and then grab with detailed coverage. the 1st situation in the cause of the group is worsening. at least half of the population is already starving. the, in an increasingly complex world, it's paramount to be direct action. what there should moment international law is

being b, this model on sort of discussions. the customer, the noise is real, operates under climate of absolute infinity. we challenge conventional wisdom. how does it affect you? how does that affect the community? a sense that message that antibiotic bigotry, that a sama fob. yeah. but these are acceptable forms of, of hate. upfront one, out of their unique perspective, desktop plays students up in dallas. told the palestinians to go to on heard voices, to humor. i try to highlight the absurdities inconsistency, proceed, and that's local landscape. connect with our community and tap into conversations you won't find elsewhere. it takes every day since it is going to unspeakable horror as to really a lot about what's happening because of the tasks and media attention. the stream on algebra for rosa is human appeal has been making the most of your

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