Al Jazeera Quietly Deletes Story Falsely Alleging IDF Raped Palestinians in Gaza Hospital
25th March 2024
Qatari state-controlled news outlet Al Jazeera quietly deleted a story it had published for over 24 hours that featured fabricated allegations that Israeli soldiers raped Palestinian women at Gaza’s Al-Shifa Hospital, according to the Jerusalem Post.
Al Jazeera reported in the original article that Jamila Al-Hessi, a Gazan woman, said she saw Israeli soldiers “raping women then killing them and burning entire families alive” after entering the hospital where Hamas terrorists had barricaded themselves. The story quickly went viral on social media, prompting widespread condemnation of the Israeli government and the Israel Defense Forces.
But Yasser Abuhilalah, a columnist and former director at Al Jazeera, on Sunday admitted the story was fake, noting in an X post that “it was revealed through Hamas investigations that the story of the rape of women in Al-Shifa Hospital was fabricated.”