The NYT:
"A Tunnel Offers Clues to How Hamas Uses Gaza’s Hospitals."
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/02/12/world/middleeast/gaza-tunnel-israel-hamas.html

-->That's the NYT headline. It would seem that Hamas was using tunnels under hospitals, and the article is about just how they did it. What evidence is there you might ask? "Classified Israeli intelligence documents, obtained and reviewed by The Times, indicate that the tunnel is at least 700 feet long." Later, the NYT is not so sure: "The Israeli military, however, has struggled to prove that Hamas maintained a command-and-control center under the facility. Critics of the Israeli military say the evidence does not support its early claims."

The article goes on to present more supposed evidence. "the Israeli military showed a video on Nov. 5 of what it said was the entrance to 'a tunnel that was being used for terror infrastructures' on the hospital’s grounds. But the video appears to show something else: a water storage area built in 2016, when the hospital was constructed, according to engineering plans and images from the hospital’s construction reviewed by The Times."

So what evidence do we really have in this story, besides Israeli secret documents, some of them reviewed by the NYT and American officials? Is an army committing genocide really to be trusted? Instead of "A tunnel offers clues," the article's title should read "Israeli intelligence claims tunnels under hospitals were used by Hamas." This is a good example of news being twisted to support Israel. The title on the front page is misleading, but one has to read the whole article to recognize the scam.

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Counterpunch:
"[Lets] examine how donor nations responded to a sister UN organization, the Peacekeeping force, when staff faced accusations of misconduct. In 2021, the UN Secretary-General concluded that it was credible that 450 members of the Peacekeeping force in Gabon were guilty of child rape and sexual exploitation. Unlike UNRWA, however, the US and other donors did not suspend funding to the UN agency when reports of sexual abuse emerged, more importantly, they continued the funding even after the allegations were verified. ...

Yet, immediately after Israel raised, yet to be verified, allegations against a very few of UNRWA staff, Canada and other donors preempted any investigation and froze funding to an organization that currently provides vital humanitarian assistance to a population enduring siege and relentless bombing. ...

[The] incongruent response to the two UN Agencies reveals that Western virtue is gaged by the identity of the victim and victimizer. In response to the more than 2000 allegations of sexual abuse, the accusers were from Africa and Haiti. In the second case, the unverified allegations against the 12 individuals came from Israel. The disparity in the two UN cases is a stark illustration of the evident Western bias, and how it’s driven by the victims/victimizers’ racial characteristics rather than a commitment to genuine fairness."
https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/02/14/defunding-unrwa-the-last-phase-of-israeli-genocide/

-->What Western media would dare expose the racist response of much of the white, Christian world? Children are dying of starvation in Gaza. But they are only Muslim; so let's not worry about them.

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Common Dreams:
"Israel Defense Forces officers brought Israeli civilians into detention centers and allowed them to watch and film Palestinian prisoners being tortured, according to survivor testimonies published this week by the Geneva-based Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor.

Prisoners held at detention centers in Zikim on the northern border of the Gaza Strip and at a site in southern Israel affiliated with Naqab Prison 'told Euro-Med Monitor that the Israeli soldiers had purposefully presented them before Israeli civilians, falsely claiming that they were fighters affiliated with Palestinian armed factions and that they had taken part in the October 7 attack on Israeli towns,' the group said.

The former detainees said groups of 10-20 Israeli civilians were brought in and allowed to record torture sessions in which the men, stripped nearly naked, were beaten with metal batons, electrocuted, and had hot water poured over their heads. The ex-prisoners said some of the Israelis laughed while filming their torture."
https://www.commondreams.org/news/gaza-torture

-->Needless to say, this story was not picked up by any US media. It is just too much for our citizens to see. After all, stories like this indicate that the US is aiding and abetting a genocide.