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"The effort comes at a high-risk moment for Ukrainian forces, who are advancing into #Russia's #Kursk region while trying to hold off Russian forces threatening the eastern Ukrainian city of Pokrovsk," the publication writes.
Most of the $7.8 billion allocated in April has not been used, and "officials scrambling to find a way to keep the remaining $6 billion from expiring as the Sept. 30 deadline - the end of the 2024 fiscal year - approaches".
Meanwhile, congressional sources told #Reuters that the flow of #weapons to #Ukraine has slowed this year.
Media Lens
(...) Far from jumping through hoops âto be balanced and impartial,â the BBC seems embarrassed even to associate Israel with its own crimes. A typical BBC headline read:
âWorld Food Programme says northern Gaza aid convoy blockedâ
Was there a landslide? Was Hamas playing politics with food aid? The headline should have read:
âIsrael blocks northern Gaza aid convoyâ
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Or consider the damning words of the Director-General of The World Health Organization (WHO), Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, who reported this month:
âGrim findings during @WHO visits to Al-Awda and Kamal Adwan hospitals in northern #Gaza: severe levels of malnutrition, children dying of starvation, serious shortages of fuel, food and medical supplies, hospital buildings destroyedâŚ
âThe situation at Al-Awda Hospital is particularly appalling, as one of the buildings is destroyed.
âKamal Adwan Hospital is the only paediatrics hospital in the north of Gaza, and is overwhelmed with patients. The lack of food resulted in the deaths of 10 children.â
The BBC headline reporting this story read:
âChildren starving to death in northern Gaza â WHOâ
Did the crops fail? If Russia had caused child starvation in Ukraine, we can be confident the words âPutinâ and âRussiaâ would have appeared front and centre in BBC reporting. (...)
On 29 February, a New York Times comment piece was titled:
âStarvation Is Stalking Gazaâs Childrenâ
Former Guardian journalist Jonathan Cook commented:
âIsrael is choosing to starve Gazaâs children by blocking aid.â
On 5 March, a Reuters headline read:
âAs Gazaâs hunger crisis worsens, emaciated children seen at hospitalsâ
Author Assal Rad responded:
âGazaâs âhunger crisisâ is not a natural phenomenon. Israel is deliberately starving Palestinians in Gaza as a weapon of war, which is an act of collective punishment and a war crime.â (...)
At least 118 Palestinian civilians were killed and at least 760 were injured after Israeli tanks opened fire on civilians seeking food from aid trucks on al-Rashid street to the west of Gaza City. The BBCâs immediate headline reactions were full of mystery:
âIsrael-Gaza war latest: More than 100 reported killed as crowd waits for Gaza aidâ (...)
Clearly, then, it was a massacre; so why the lack of clarity? Why was the word âmassacreâ not used to describe a textbook example of a massacre in a report supposed to verify and clarify the truth?
As we noted recently, the Glasgow Media Group examined four weeks (7 October â 4 November, 2023) of BBC One daytime coverage of Gaza to identify which terms were used by journalists themselves â i.e. not in direct or reported statements â to describe Israeli and Palestinian deaths. They found that âmurderâ, âmurderousâ, âmass murderâ, âbrutal murderâ and âmerciless murderâ were used a total of 52 times by journalists to refer to Israelisâ deaths but never in relation to Palestinian deaths. The group noted that:
âThe same pattern could be seen in relation to âmassacreâ, âbrutal massacreâ and âhorrific massacreâ (35 times for Israeli deaths, not once for Palestinian deaths); âatrocityâ, âhorrific atrocityâ and âappalling atrocityâ (22 times for Israeli deaths, once for Palestinian deaths); and âslaughterâ (five times for Israeli deaths, not once for Palestinian deaths).â (...)
Tags: #media #media_bias #news #journalism #journalist #bbc #the_guardian #reuters #new_york_times #israel #gaza #palestine #palestinians #war #war_crimes #starvation #massacre #aid #humanitarian_aid #weapons
It's absolutely surreal to see -- in real time -- virtually the entire Western media pretend they don't know who just carried out a massacre of 100+ starving civilians. pic.twitter.com/h9dpQOnBSj
— Alan MacLeod (@AlanRMacLeod) February 29, 2024
https://youtu.be/0vbOFI_YRHc?si=IvvBsYfYqZtU4HHg
#PascalLottaz #NeutralityStudies #media #imperialism #war #genocide #geopolitics
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Israeli tank fire killed Reuters videographer Issam Abdallah and injured six other international #journalists in a double strike in southern #Lebanon on October 13, forensic analysis by #CNNÂ suggests, confirming reports by two news organizations and two human rights groups.
On Thursday, #Reuters, AFP, #Amnesty Intâl & Human Rights Watch released investigations into the circumstances of the deadly strike. #AFP & #HRW claimed it was a âdeliberate,â targeted attack.
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đ It's unfortunate these MSM news outlets didn't bother to include the two Al-Mayadeen journalists who were killed in a drone strike in an open area.
Video of her last broadcast can be seen on telegram
An Israeli attack in October that killed a journalist from Reuters and injured Al Jazeera journalists was a deliberate act. That's the findings from an inve...#AFP #AlJazeera #AlJazeeraEnglish #Gaza #Gazaairstrikes #Hezbollah #Israel #Israelattackonjournalists #Israel-Palestineconflict #IsraeliArmy #Israeliattackskillsreutersjournalist #Israelipalestinianconflict #Lebanon #LebanonIsraelTensions #LebanonIsraelbordertension #Lebanonlatestnews #Reuters #aljazeeralive #aljazeeravideo #aljazeeralivenews #almaalshaab #attackonjournalists #freedomofthepress #operationAlAqsaflood #southernlebanon
Israel should face war crimes probe over journalist death in Lebanon: NGOs
Mr. Blinken doesn't seem to be very enthusiastic about what he heard at the Meeting with the Israeli War Cabinet
PS. It must be hard kissing their asses so often and so many times, then act like you actually care for the lives of innocent Palestinians. /Farhad
#SaveGaza #StopIsrael
#palestine #Israel #Politics #PeaceNow #StopTheWar #CeasefireNow
The Reuters news agency is calling for Israeli forces to investigate the death of its video journalist Issam Abdallah, who was killed in a suspected Israeli ...#AlJazeera #AlJazeeraEnglish #alJazeera #aljazeeraEnglish #aljazeeralive #aljazeeravideo #aljazeeraEnglish #aljazeeralatest #aljazeeralive #aljazeeralivenews #idf #israel-gazaconflict #israel-hamaswar #journalistkilling #latestnews #lebanon #newsheadlines #reuters #reutersjournalist
Reuters calls for Israel to investigate journalistâs killing | AJ #shorts
At least one journalist has been killed and six wounded â including two Al Jazeera reporters â in shelling by Israeli forces in southern Lebanon, according t...#AFP #Gaza #Gazaairstrikes #Hezbollah #Israel #Israelattackonjournalists #IsraeliArmy #Israeliattackskillsreutersjournalist #Israelipalestinianconflict #Lebanon #LebanonIsraelTensions #LebanonIsraelbordertension #Lebanonlatestnews #Reuters #almaalshaab #attackonjournalists #freedomofthepress #operationAlAqsaflood #southernlebanon #AlJazeera #AlJazeeraEnglish #alJazeera #aljazeeraEnglish #aljazeeralive #aljazeeravideo #aljazeeralivenews
Israeli attack in southern Lebanon kills journalist, wounds several others
Al Jazeera is reporting that one of the journalists was killed and 3 others were injured in the attack.
Wrong.
A new #Reuters report calls into question #Teslaâs ability to do the one thing that its vehicles were supposed to be good at: dominating the electric car industry with exceptional battery range. In fact, according to the report, Tesla intentionally overestimated the battery range displayed on driversâ dashboards by rigging the software, only to then systematically cancel the service appointments of customers who complained. The company even established an entire Las Vegas âDiversion Teamâ devoted to canceling range-related appointments. According to Reuters:
Inside the #Nevada teamâs office, some employees celebrated canceling service appointments by putting their phones on mute and striking a metal xylophone, triggering applause from coworkers who sometimes stood on desks.
Earlier this year, Tesla was fined for false advertising by South Korean regulators who determined that the company exaggerated its range estimates, which were far greater than the range estimates of other electric car manufacturers. For context, the #Chevy #Boltâs estimated range is 259 miles, the #Nissan #LEAFâs is 149, while the Tesla Model Sâs is 405. Car review website Edmunds tested five Teslas models that failed to reach their advertised range, while 9 out of 10 models from other manufacturers exceeded expectations.
I recently watched an episode of How To with John Wilson in which Wilson buys a used car for a price that seems too good to be true, writes reporter Abigail Weinberg. He later discovers an extra odometer in the trunk, showing far more mileage than the one on the dashboard. Teslaâs reported scheming may not be so brazen, but when drivers are reporting battery ranges 200 miles less than advertised, itâs hard not to think that customers are getting a raw deal.
You can read Weinberg's full blog at the link below. https://bit.ly/43GHmkJ
â "he Ă UnitedStates is expected to announce as early as Friday that it will provide Taiwan with #military assistance worth more than $300 million, two U.S. officials told #Reuters, a move likely to anger #China.
Congress authorized up to $1 billion worth of Presidential #Drawdown Authority weapons aid for Taiwan in the 2023 budget.
One official, speaking on the condition anonymity, said the package is expected to be worth around $330 million.
The White House declined to comment.
The formal announcement is not expected to include a list of weapon systems being provided"
#Biden #RoadToWar #Politics
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Russia reducing number of personnel at Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant â reports
Russia is gradually reducing the number of personnel at the occupied #Zaporizhzhia nuclear power station in southern Ukraine, Ukraineâs military intelligence agency said on Friday.
âAccording to the latest data, the occupation contingent is gradually leaving the territory of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant,â the main directorate of intelligence at the defence ministry (GUR) said on the Telegram messaging app.
#GUR said that among the first to leave the nuclear power station were three employees of Russian state nuclear firm Rosatom who had been âin charge of the Russiansâ activitiesâ, Reuters reports.
It said Ukrainian employees who had signed a contract with Rosatom had also been advised to depart. Employees should leave by 5 July, it said, and had been told to preferably head for the Crimea peninsula, which Russia illegally seized from Ukraine in 2014.
GUR said the number of military patrols was also gradually decreasing on the plantâs vast territory and in the nearby city of Enerhodar, and that personnel remaining at the plant had been told to blame Ukraine âin case of any emergency situationsâ.
Russian authorities declined to comment on the claims when approached by #Reuters.
"The Iran-Iraq Joint Chamber of Commerce Chairman, Yahya Al-e Eshaq, announced on 10 June that Iraq has released $2.76 billion worth of Iranian funds in gas export money owed by #Baghdad.
#Iraq received a #sanctions waiver from the #US to make the payment.
According to an unnamed foreign ministry official that spoke with #Reuters, Foreign Minister Fuad Hussein got the clearance to make the payment from US State Secretary Antony #Blinken on the sidelines of the #Riyadh Conference on Thursday."
#Ukraineâs Izium & #Reuters with stories for media
The Telegraph did not see any evidence of that scale of death during a visit on Thursday. Hrigory[, a 63-year-old civil engineer ,] denied knowledge of any war crimes.
âWe didnât interact with them, and they didnât interact with us,â he said of the Russians. âFrom what I know, there wasnât detentions, executions, torture.â
âThere were a lot of young men who would say âwe wonât shoot any bullets,ââ he added.
And another one from the Telegraph: 'Tortured' bodies unearthed in mass graves of liberated town Izyum
Oleksandr Filchakov, the head of the Kharkiv prosecutor's office, said some showed signs of torture. Reporters at the scene did not see proof of that.