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I rather they lie than you know, rape.

People are actually dying from this conflict and the first thing you guys do is argue behind your fucking keyboards about two shitty publications and a fake story?

You're using the IDF think-piece of the fucking JERUSALEM POST to "debunk" their claims?

Libs will do anything in the fucking world to avoid saying they're the bad guys in an engagement.

Ohh let's see the outrage from Lemmy leftists in the comments about this:

I commented something like this on a post about Hamas rapes in Israel, but it got removed for "defending genocide" or something:

Here's the thing about rape in war... it almost always happens. You'd be hard-pressed to find a war that doesn't involve mass rapes by both sides. Maybe this one was fabricated, but it is happening. One woman fabricating her story doesn't mean it isn't happening. It's a perennial problem.

https://lemmy.world/post/13496994 ?

The woman who spoke about rape justified her exaggeration and incorrect talk by saying that the goal was to arouse the nation’s fervor and brotherhood,” adding critically that “As if more than thirty thousand martyrs, ninety thousand wounded, about a million displaced people, and comprehensive destruction were not enough!”

People in Gaza exaggerating and lying to the media to gain false sympathy?

Well I never!

I'm a bit disappointed with the hypocrisy of some commenters here.

So many very questionable articles, posts and statements that can't be verified regarding IDF crimes get treated as the absolute truth. Yet a statement regarding a fake story, verified by Hamas and Al Jazeera, gets reported and isn't trustworthy, since it's from an institution aligned with Israel?

Holy echo chamber, batman.

Stop allowing Jerusalem Post on this community. They are aligned to Israel and cannot be trusted any more than the daily wire.

What a trash article. So when a single woman lies to a newspaper, that makes it entirely bad? Al-Jazeera is a Qatari mouthpiece?

That's right coming from an apartheid enabling, mouthpiece of their country's theocratic fascist leader that publishes lies all the fucking time.

This is the best summary I could come up with:

Al Jazeera columnist and former director Yasser Abuhilalah also tweeted, admitting that, “It was revealed through Hamas investigations that the story of the rape of women in Al-Shifa Hospital was fabricated… The woman who spoke about rape justified her exaggeration and incorrect talk by saying that the goal was to arouse the nation’s fervor and brotherhood,” adding critically that “As if more than thirty thousand martyrs, ninety thousand wounded, about a million displaced people, and comprehensive destruction were not enough!”

The original story published by Al Jazeera featured a “testimony” by Jamila Al-Hessi, a Gazan woman who claimed that while she was under siege in the area of the hospital complex, she witnessed IDF soldiers “raping women then killing them and burning entire families alive.”

The fake testimony went viral, with many expressing their rage at Israel and at what they deemed Arab failure to protect the honor of Palestinian women, even asking where Hamas and the resistance had gone.

However, Israeli news blogger Abu Ali Express also reported that the viral fake testimony also had unexpected reverse ripple effects, leading many Gazans to flee their homes in the northern Gaza strip southwards, which may explain the unusual event of a Hamas investigation into the details.

Al Jazeera was founded with the financial help of the Qatari royal family and has served for decades as a mouthpiece for the regime, which provides lavish asylum for the leaders of Hamas, a group designated as a terror organization by the US, Canada, the EU, Israel, and other nations.

Foreign Minister Israel Katz responded to the report, writing on X: "Look surprised, the Palestinians fabricate stories of rape to incite antisemitism.

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