• RunawayFixer@lemmy.world
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    4 hours ago

    When looking up “Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib” and baby formula, it turns out that this story is so far mostly being reported on by Israeli news outlets, 2 news outlet with reputations for making up stuff (NY Post and The Telegraph) and a few small news outlets that I don’t recognize (which includes The Australian that op used as source). My impression at this point is that it’s probably fake news.

    Searching further, it turns out that Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib isn’t in Gaza, he lives in the USA and this “news” was released on X and first picked up by the NY Post. https://themedialine.org/headlines/us-based-palestinian-peace-activist-claims-hamas-hid-baby-formula-to-accuse-israel-of-starvation/ At this point I’m convinced that it’s fake news.

    Tldr: Palestinian living in the USA has a video of some Mediterranean looking people doing mundane actions in a warehouse that may or may not be in Gaza, and then the person living in the USA made up a narrative in an online post that fits with his pre existing bias.

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        Sky News AU (not affiliated with the UK) is the closest equivalent to Fox News this decade, since Murdochs fascist state media machine was working so well in the US.

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      Which is rather ridiculous, because the IDF didn’t need any assistance to make them look bad.