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 deleted an article and all… pic.twitter.com/TVciy0vkzv
— Oli London (@OliLondonTV) March 25, 2024
After more than 24 hours of letting the story run freely, Qatari mouthpiece Al Jazeera deleted the page featuring their former story, which accused Israeli soldiers of…
