There’s a lot more whitewashing in the new NYT article
The raid illustrated that Israeli authorities were prepared to take far-reaching action to undermine the channel, which is based in Qatarpress freedom and has provided extensive coverage of Israel’s military operationswar crimes in Gaza and the West Bank.
In the early hours of Sunday, a group of Israeli soldiers forcibly enteredblew up the front door of Al Jazeera’s office in Ramallah and toldordered Walid al-Omari, the local bureau chief, that he and his staff should leave immediately.
When Mr. al-Omari asked why the Israeli forces were closing the office, one of the soldiers told him to contact the commander of the Israeli military in the West Bank for more details which were never provided. Al Jazeera broadcast the initial minutes of the raid live.
There’s a lot more whitewashing in the new NYT article
The raid illustrated that Israeli authorities were prepared to take far-reaching action to undermine
the channel, which is based in Qatarpress freedom and has provided extensive coverage of Israel’smilitary operationswar crimes in Gaza and the West Bank.In the early hours of Sunday, a group of Israeli soldiers
forcibly enteredblew up the front door of Al Jazeera’s office in Ramallah andtoldordered Walid al-Omari, the local bureau chief, that he and his staff should leave immediately.When Mr. al-Omari asked why the Israeli forces were closing the office, one of the soldiers told him to contact the commander of the Israeli military in the West Bank for more details which were never provided. Al Jazeera broadcast the initial minutes of the raid live.
NYT and other major outlets that carried the same Reuters pull used language of “the channel based in Qatar”. AP said “broadcaster”.
Actually, Reuters only said “entered”, so NYT added “forcibly”. AP only said raided. BBC also said entered.