Issam Al Mughrabi, 56, who worked for the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) for three decades was killed along with his wife and children in an Israeli air strike on Friday.
“For almost 30 years, Issam has worked with UNDP through our Programme of Assistance to the Palestinian People,” UNDP administrator Achim Steiner said in a statement.
“The loss of Issam and his family has deeply affected us all. The UN and civilians in Gaza are not a target.”
Offering his condolences to Issam’s family and colleagues the World Health Organization’s chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus stressed in a post on X that “humanitarians should never be victims” and called for a ceasefire.
For what it’s worth Al Jazeera is literally a mouthpiece funded by the Qatari government. They’re like the VOA/Radio Free XXX/Xinhua/RT of Qatar. It’s literally Qatari propaganda.
Cool media is often a tool of propaganda. Can you showcase that this is false? Can you state why you brought it up here? Would you do the same for Israeli propaganda justifying genocide?
Here’s a more direct source: https://www.undp.org/speeches/statement-killing-undp-staff-member-and-family-gaza
According to this community’s guidelines, Al Jazeera isn’t really an acceptable source: https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/al-jazeera/
I don’t agree, but that’s why I’m on lemmy.ml rather than here most of the time.
I’ve suggested to the mods a meta thread to discuss MBFC. The more I read about it, the more I’m convinced it’s not a good tool whatsoever.
Quo custodiat ipsos custodiae? - Who watches the watchers?
It seems to me that if you’re running a propaganda operation, setting up a centralized entity telling us all what newsmedia is trustworthy or not is an obvious play to manipulate people.
Merely adding one level of delegation to “trust” doesn’t make something more or less trustworthy: some guys you know nothing about but what they (and the very people they say are trustworthy) tell us themselves, and who go around telling us who to trust and who not to trust, aren’t inherently trustworthy (in fact that’s an extra suspicious behaviour) - why should you trust them if you have no way to verify they’re both honest AND genuinelly competent at evaluating trustworthiness?
(PS: In the business of passing judgement on Trust merelly honesty is not eough - all of us know of somebody who is a good honest person and yet on Facebook keeps sharing obvious bullshit: they genuinelly believe it hence they’re honest in what they share, only they’re gullible so their flawed judgment on what they believe in means they’ll believe any old bollocks and then spread it with total honesty).
Trustworthiness is not an easy-peasy to solve “lets rely on these guys who just popped up on the Internet to tell us which news media to trust or not” and don’t at all ponder on the possible motivations and funding for that specific op - all this does did was add another link of uncertainty not solve the trust problem, and, worse, it’s a centralized one (a newspaper can only be or not be trustworthy, whilst these guys if they’re dishonest or incompetent actors can impact the preceived thrustworthiness of hundreds of newspapers) which makes it a much more desirable position for a propagandist.
It’s really not but the mods seem obsessed with it.
I’m still curious why the comment then though. Without any further context it only seems to serve to imply the story is false.
no meta posts allowed
Not sure what that means in this context but from scanning your history, you don’t seem disingenuous so gonna chalk it up misunderstanding haha
It means that he can’t make a discussion post about the sub’s rules and is confined to semi-relevant comment sections
thanks buddy I should’ve been more clear
you’re replying to him providing an alternative source with this?
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You’d fit right in at reddit r/worldnews
Al Jazeera reports factually, especially on issues in the middle east.
Do you think this article contains any propaganda?
No, I don’t. It seems factual
I agree. I think the reason Aljazeera report so well on this is due to having many Arabi speaking Journalists and employing many people from the Middle East. They usually have video evidence of everything they provide, making it hard to refute.
My main issue with them is Aljazeera Arabic’s emotional and charged language
For example it will say:
When Palestinian victims: استشهاد 4 اطفال four Children were martyred
When IDF deaths: الجيش الإسرائيلي يعترف بمقتل 4 من جنوده the Israeli army “admits” to four soldiers killed
But then again, it doesn’t bother me too much that the IDF “admits” casualties because they have been lying about that to everyone since the start. However, I would still prefer reading a source that won’t sway my emotions at every statement
I don’t see this often in Aljazeera English
a better source has already been provided https://lemmy.world/comment/6229224