Israel will slap the New York Times with a lawsuit over a recent “hideous and distorted” article that accused Israeli soldiers and their dogs of raping Palestinian prisoners, officials said Thursday.
The Jewish state announced the legal action just days after the so-called Newspaper of Record published a column, penned by Nicholas Kristof, that detailed the alleged horrific widespread rape of Palestinians at the hands of Israeli prison guards and soldiers.
“Following the publication by Nicholas Kristof in The New York Times of one of the most hideous and distorted lies ever published against the State of Israel in the modern press, which also received the backing of the newspaper, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar have instructed the initiation of a defamation lawsuit against The New York Times,” Israel’s Foreign Ministry said.
The incendiary article, which cited accounts from 14 former Palestinian prisoners, claimed that sexual torture was baked into Israel’s forces.
It alleged, too, that Israeli troops even train its dogs to rape Palestinian prisoners.
The column sparked widespread outrage — with some experts ripping the piece as Jew-hating propaganda.
The article was published by the outlet just one day before the release of a two-year probe detailing evidence of widespread sexual abuse against Israeli civilians during Hamas’ October 7, 2023, attack.
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