https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/dec/12/hugely-frustra...
It seems like Israel has closed some border crossings to journalists, and Egypt has done the same on their side.
https://cpj.org/2023/12/journalist-casualties-in-the-israel-...
The US is connected to the Middle East, but journalists there do have freedom.
In this summary it shows Al Jazeera as left center bias in general, but with heavily biased reporting against Israel. For this specific topic it is clearly one of the most biased news sources that are still given credibility.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/nov/21/why-is-qatar-o...
But no, you probably believe anything the IDF and Israeli media says.
I assumed it was because of a religious ideology, but a state sponsor makes sense too.
The AJ coverage: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2023/10/16/israel-ha...
From reading the AJ coverage, you would believe that Israel bombed a hospital and killed hundreds. An inexcusable atrocity, obviously, if it were true.
But on Wikipedia, you can see the actual impact of the bombing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Ahli_Arab_Hospital_explosio...
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The US and Israel's story of it being a jihad rocket seems consistent with the explosion. The intelligence assessment that it was dozens not hundreds dead seems much more plausible to me.
The AJ perspective seems to be to treat Hamas claims as valid by default throughout this conflict, which I find concerning.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/10/20/what-have-open-sou...
[1] https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/10/19/what-hit-ahli-hosp...
They even have explainer videos, like the one you linked, or this one here from a month later: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=60EK-3-kGLI
Their arguments are well produced and cast doubt on the Israeli/American story in every possible way.
But isn't that also what a sophisticated propaganda campaign would look like?
As I said, I watched it unfold live, and my assessment was that they couldn't possibly know there were 800 dead on such short notice. When the sun rose, I expected to see a leveled hospital, like so many other buildings in Gaza. Instead, I saw a tiny crater in a parking lot.
It was then that I learned the "Ministry of Health (Palestine)" is actually a government agency, effectively Hamas. That was the entity that supplied the numbers that drove the headlines that caused so many more problems.
You might think "Who would exaggerate the numbers of dead to cause international outrage!? That's unthinkable!". But they are literal terrorists. This is the playbook.
In the video you linked, they don't show the impact site. They don't mention that the hospital is still very much functioning. They don't show the surrounding buildings not having been impacted. But if you were making an honest assessment of "israeli airstrike on hospital" or "stray rocket hit hospital parking lot", those details make a huge amount of difference.
When it happened, I thought we would see retractions from AJ and other Arab media after the sun rose, but they were continuing to run the "Israel bombs hospital" story while omitting key video and photo details that were widely available on Wikiepdia.
What they write in English is completely different to their main audience and internal audience. There's enough information out there to back this up. Go and do some research with this in mind and formulate your own conclusions.
(* edit: even when their families are killed by Israeli bombs)
It’s not a valid news source.