• TinyPizza@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    For anyone else who doesn’t like Al Jazeera, here is an article they wrote 4 days ago about this very church being the last refuge for hundreds of displaced civilians who had nowhere left to turn. Thankfully it’s hosted on MSN, so it’s not fully taboo to read about the horrified people who were at their wits end trying to escape death and largely accepting the futility of the effort.

    Any strike on the church “would not only be an attack on religion, which is a vile deed, but also an attack on humanity”, Father Elias said. “Our humanity calls us to offer peace and warmth to everyone in need.”

    George Shabeen, a Palestinian Christian and a father of four sheltering in the church with his family, said they had nowhere else to go; their streets had been targeted by three Israeli air raids.
    “Coming here saved our lives,” he told Al Jazeera. “During the night, we huddle together, Muslims and Christians, old and young, and pray for safety and peace.”

    If someone at the IDF read through some of this propaganda then maybe they wouldn’t have put a bomb right next to the church.

    Oh well, everyone makes mistakes.

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      1 year ago

      I personally would trust Al Jazeera (The international English speaking one) more than MSN.

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        Al Jazeera has biases, like every media organization, like Reuters, like the BBC, like the guardian. They’re supposed to be one voice in a choir of voices. The reporting is excellent. While they demonstrate their biases by what they cover, I’ve always found the reporting to be professional and excellent.