03/27/2024 / By Ethan Huff
The New York Times is finally coming clean about the “Hamas mass rapes” hoax it helped peddle in order to sell Israel’s war on Gaza to the public.
Now that “Hamas mass rapes,” babies in ovens, and other made-up atrocities have been exposed, those who pushed these lies, including the Times, are backtracking so as not to look like co-conspirators in the genocide.
In a bombshell piece, the Times admitted that a key witness from an Israeli paramilitary unit flat-out lied about another hoax claim that Hamas raped two sisters in an October 7 sexual assault incident.
The Times cites newly unsurfaced video showing that the “two sisters raped” claim was completely made-up by an unnamed paramedic from an Israeli commando unit who was one of dozens of people interviewed for a December 28 piece published by the Times about alleged Hamas sexual violence on October 7.
The paramedic, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, falsely claimed that he discovered the bodies of two partially clothed teenage girls in a home in Kibbutz Be’eri that supposedly showed evidence of sexual violence.
Other mainstream media outlets picked up on the fake story as well, including The Associated Press (AP), CNN and The Washington Post, all of which riled up the general public in a tizzy so Israel’s war on Gaza would be more palatable.
“Though it is unclear if the medic was referring to the same scene, residents said that in no other home in Be’eri were two teenage girls killed, and they concluded from the video that the girls had not been sexually assaulted,” the Times now admits.
A member of the group that looked into what happened in Kibbutz Be’eri named Nili Bar Sinai fully investigated the “two sisters raped” claim and found that “this story is false.” As for the medic who originally lied about it, the Times says he declined to say whether or not he still stands by the original account and would prefer to just “put the attacks behind him.”
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In an apparent cover story, an Israeli military spokesman later came out in defense of the medic, insisting that he must have simply misremembered where he saw the teenage girls.
That spokesman, also speaking on the condition of anonymity, said the medic was operating in several different villages that same weekend and could have spotted the teenagers in another kibbutz – though he did not specify which one.
Still to this day, there is no complete record of how every victim of the October 7 attack was killed, probably because a number of victims were actually killed by Israel Defense Forces (IDF) and not by Hamas at all.
“Unsurprisingly, NYT scam artist Gettleman is parroting the Israeli gov’s new cover-up attempt,” commented Aaron Mate, mocking the false “humiliation” of the Times with this latest story.
“He now amends his original article to acknowledge that his own newspaper has now debunked one of his key witnesses, the medic. But Gettleman now parrots the Israeli gov’s new excuse that the medic may have seen the two bodies at a different Kibbutz: ‘It was unclear if the paramedic was describing bodies he discovered elsewhere.”
Keep in mind that the “Hamas mass rapes,” which has been fully debunked, was the myth that Israel used to justify committing war crimes against the people of Gaza, most of whom have been bombed all the way to the southern city of Rafah where they now await Benjamin Netanyahu’s next move.
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