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An internal U.S. government analysis found no evidence of systematic theft by the Palestinian militant group Hamas of U.S.-funded humanitarian supplies, challenging the main rationale that Israel and the U.S. give for backing a new armed private aid operation.

The analysis, which has not been previously reported, was conducted by a bureau within the U.S. Agency for International Development and completed in late June. It examined 156 incidents of theft or loss of U.S.-funded supplies reported by U.S. aid partner organizations between October 2023 and this May.

It found "no reports alleging Hamas" benefited from U.S.-funded supplies, according to a slide presentation of the findings seen by Reuters.

A U.S. State Department spokesperson disputed the findings, saying there is video evidence of Hamas looting aid, but provided no such videos.

cross-posted from: https://feddit.nl/post/38810430

‘For the first time in more than eighty years, reporters of the renowned press agency Agence France-Presse (AFP) are under threat of dying of hunger. The labour union of the news organisation called the alarm on Monday about the ten Palestinian AFP workers in Gaza.’ (Non-translated archive link). It’s fairly easy to have pages automatically translated these days, and otherwise only English-language media are represented here, where the vast majority of European media obviously isn’t English-language. This is relevant to this community as it’s about journalists employed by a European news agency and newspapers.

‘They receive a salary, but are hardly able to work because of the high food prices and inhumane conditions. “My body is thin and I can’t work anymore”, the exhausted photographer Bashar (30) said on Facebook last weekend.

“Since the founding of AFP in August of 1944, we lost journalists during conflicts and have had people wounded and imprisoned within our ranks”, the union writes in the Monday communiqué, “but not one of us remembers seeing a colleague die of hunger.” Without “immediate intervention”, the message continues, “the last reporters in Gaza will die. [...] We refuse to let that happen.”’

A familiar breed of British pundit has resurfaced - loud, self-declared feminists whose outrage is as selective as it is performative, and whose moral compass somehow always aligns with western state power.

They remain silent as Gaza burns, but are quick to find their voice to cheer on Israel and its allies as they threaten to flatten Iran - civilian casualties be damned.

During Israel's recent strikes on Iran, the radical feminist journalist and co‑founder of Justice for Women, Julie Bindel, branded leftist anti-war feminists "Team Iran" sympathisers. It was a disingenuous, grotesquely misleading and dangerously ideological accusation, but not a surprising one.

What we're witnessing goes beyond reasoned critique - it is the cynical weaponisation of feminism to uphold state violence.

This is no isolated incident. It's a pattern.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/32644220

More than a hundred BBC employees have written a letter to the director general, Tim Davie, complaining that the Corporation has become a mouthpiece for Israel. It was also signed by 300 other journalists and media professionals: one of them was yours truly. The BBC employees, as you would expect, are all anonymous, because otherwise they would face grave consequences to their careers.

The letter says:

We’re writing to express our concerns over opaque editorial decisions and censorship at the BBC on the reporting of Israel/Palestine. We believe the refusal to broadcast the documentary ‘Gaza: Medics Under Fire’ is just one in a long line of agenda driven decisions. It demonstrates, once again, that the BBC is not reporting “without fear or favour” when it comes to Israel.

It goes on to note that the decision not to broadcast the investigation was taken by BBC management despite the content being signed off in accordance with BBC guidelines and editorial policy, which it says “Appears to be a political decision”, adding that the BBC response shows the organisation “is crippled by the fear of being perceived as critical of the Israeli government.”

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/32131286

They tried. Oh, did the media try.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/31383170

California Governor Gavin Newsom has accused the Trump administration of deliberately spreading doctored and misleading images of recent protests in Los Angeles.

On X, formerly Twitter, the Department of Defense's Rapid Response account posted a video that appeared to show burning, graffitied police cars during protests in Los Angeles this week.

However, the fact-checking website Snopes said the image showed protests in Los Angeles following the death of George Floyd in May 2020.