{"id":546738,"date":"2026-05-16T09:55:30","date_gmt":"2026-05-16T04:55:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/leadpakistan.com.pk\/news\/?p=546738"},"modified":"2026-05-16T09:55:30","modified_gmt":"2026-05-16T04:55:30","slug":"israel-threatens-to-sue-nyt-over-report-on-sex-abuse-of-palestinian-inmates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leadpakistan.com.pk\/news\/israel-threatens-to-sue-nyt-over-report-on-sex-abuse-of-palestinian-inmates\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel threatens to sue NYT over report on sex abuse of Palestinian inmates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>defamation lawsuit<br \/>\n JERUSALEM<br \/>\nIsrael on Thursday threatened to take The New York Times to court over a piece it published denouncing allegedly widespread sexual abuse against Palestinian detainees.<br \/>\nPrime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Foreign Minister Gideon Saar have ordered the \u201cinitiation of a defamation lawsuit against The New York Times\u201d, according to a joint statement issued by their offices.<br \/>\nThe offices said that the piece by Nicholas Kristof, a prominent opinion columnist, was \u201cone 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\u201d.<br \/>\nKristof\u2019s investigation is based on testimonies gathered in the Israeli-occupied West Bank from 14 men and women who said that they had been sexually assaulted by Israeli settlers or members of the security forces.<br \/>\nThe report described \u201ca pattern of widespread Israeli sexual violence against men, women and even children \u2014 by soldiers, settlers, interrogators in the Shin Bet internal security agency and, above all, prison guards\u201d.<br \/>\nThe New York Times responded that any legal claim over the \u201cdeeply reported opinion column\u201d lacked merit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>defamation lawsuit JERUSALEM Israel on Thursday threatened to take The New York Times to court over a piece it published denouncing allegedly widespread sexual abuse against Palestinian detainees. 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