Al Jazeera Says Its Story That IDF Soldiers Are Raping Gazans Was Fabricated

The story came from a woman who wanted to ‘arouse’ others to violence, an Al Jazeera employee says.

AP/Fatima Shbair
Palestinians arrive in the southern Gaza town of Rafah after fleeing an Israeli ground and air offensive in the nearby city of Khan Younis on Monday. AP/Fatima Shbair

The news network Al Jazeera has retracted a story claiming that soldiers in the Israeli Defense Forces were raping Palestinian Arabs at the Shifa hospital in Gaza. A former managing director for the network says they have debunked the story, which was first shared with them by a Palestinian woman in Gaza. 

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