The objective fact is that IDF soldiers have a well-documented history of internal and external sexual violence going back to the state's founding (by the soldiers' own confession often times, as these acts are rarely punished, even lionized in some settler communities). International humanitarian orgs have concluded there is reasonable evidence for such acts being committed in the current conflict as well (and with all the atrocities we've witnessed, is that really suprising to anyone?).
That you seem unaware of these facts is exactly why we need freedom of press.
Yes, yes they did:
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/3/4/reasonable-grounds-t...
Replace "Palestinians" with "Jews" in that sentence. It's pretty racist innit? Please be more careful.
I'm no fan of the settlers but they are deeply religious and won't even talk about sex with their own wives, let alone rape. The idea is deeply abhorrent in Jewish communities. There's no such documentation of any rape at scale. Accusations are easy to make with no supporting evidence whatsoever.
OTOH there are many well documented cases of soldiers doing bad things to Palestinians and getting jail time for that. There's a lot of evidence about settlers doing bad stuff. These sort of lies pollute the objective truth to force a narrative of false equivalency where facts don't matter.
"However, at Shura Base, to which most of the bodies were taken for purposes of identification, there were five forensic pathologists at work. In that capacity, they also examined bodies that arrived completely or partially naked in order to examine the possibility of rape. According to a source knowledgeable about the details, there were no signs on any of those bodies attesting to sexual relations having taken place or of mutilation of genitalia."
"200 bodies were documented. These teams did not document a single case of sexual assault or cases of genital mutilation. "
"the intelligence material collected by the police and the intelligence bodies, including footage from terrorists' body cameras, does not contain visual documentation of any acts of rape themselves. "
There are many testimonies. Including from the rapists themselves. According to Hamas's interpretation of the Quran rape is legitimate as part of Jihad.
To be fair, I think that blocking etc. is a dumb move by the government. Even though they are clearly a very biased organization the damage of closing their offices is probably worse than the alternative.
The fear mongering of the top parent comment is unjustified and not exactly accurate. I'm physically in Tel Aviv and can access the Al Jazeera website just fine. News outlets can't be closed and there's no "great firewall" in Israel. There is a censor but its usage is relatively limited in the age of the internet.
Examples of Al Jazeera bias include a famous video of a Gazan interviewed by a reporter blaming Hamas for everything and the reporter immediately cutting it off so it won't break the narrative that everyone in Gaza blames only Israel.
They're the ones that promoted the fake hospital bombing and they are the source of most fake unsubstantiated stories. Their Arabic language channel is far worse than their English coverage.
They made up fake stories about IDF soldiers raping in Gaza and obviously didn't report about the actual rapes by Hamas.
They refuse to interview people who can actually answer questions legitimately in Arabic such as Yosef Hadad since that would let their audience receive unfiltered truth.