How Israeli media reported a ‘lynching’ that never happened : Armed Israeli settlers attacked a group of farmers, then told the media they were ambushed by 30 Palestinians. Here's what really happened.
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This is how Israel's mainstream media amplified fake news about a "lynching" of a settler by "30 Palestinians" that never took place.
This is what happens when the media is conditioned to believe the settlers, the army, and the Shin Bet
On Monday, the Israeli media lit up with reports of a suspected “lynching” of an Israeli settler by dozens of Palestinians in the occupied West Bank. The alleged victim, Itamar Cohen, by some accounts a “shepherd,” was near Ma’on settlement in the South Hebron Hills when around 30 Palestinians supposedly “ambushed” him, sending him to hospital with a fractured skull.
By Wednesday, however, in the wake of an investigation by +972 and Local Call, the Israeli press began walking back its claims. The “lynching,” it turns out, had never taken place. A 23-minute video that recorded the entire event from beginning to end, but which had not been seen by the Israeli public until late Wednesday, revealed exactly what took place. Moreover, the incident began when settlers from a nearby outpost had descended, armed, onto private Palestinian land, and assaulted the Palestinians working there.
