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Why Israel is keeping the public in the dark about its wars | The Jerusalem Post

Jpost · · 1293 words · By SUSAN HATTIS ROLEF
Government Transparency Humanitarian crisis in Gaza US-Israel Diplomatic Relations Press Freedom
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14 claims extracted and verified against multiple sources including cross-references, web search, and Wikipedia.

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“In this prolonged on-and-off war, which has been dragging on now for over two-and-a-half years”
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The war began on October 7, 2023. Evidence from France 24 and other sources refers to it as a 'two-year war' by October 2025, which aligns with the claim that it has dragged on for over two and a half years (Oct 2023 to Oct 2025 is approx 2 years, but the phrasing 'over two-and-a-half' may be slightly imprecise or referring to a broader conflict cycle, however, the timeline of the specific war is confirmed as spanning 2023-2025).
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web search NEUTRAL — The founder of Hamas, sheikh Ahmed Yassin, has offered Israel a ten-year hudna (armistice) in return for complete Israeli withdrawal from the territories captured in the 1967 war and establishing a Pa…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamas
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web search NEUTRAL — Hamas also wants the release of thousands of Palestinians in Israeli prisons. The year leading up to the attack was also the deadliest in the occupation of the West Bank, since the UN began recording …
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/clyv7w3gdy2o
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web search NEUTRAL — Israel and the Israel-Hamas war.The Israeli military said on April 10 that it had "dismantled" more than 4,300 Hezbollah sites in Lebanon since fighting with the militant group began last month.
https://edition.cnn.com/world/middleeast/israel
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“the number of civilian casualties reached tens of thousands, many of them children”
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Multiple sources, including the UN and Wikipedia, confirm tens of thousands of civilian casualties, specifically noting that children account for a significant portion (one in three).
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The 2014 Gaza War, also known as Operation Protective Edge (Hebrew: מִבְצָע צוּק אֵיתָן, romanized: Miv'tza Tzuk Eitan, lit. 'Operation Strong Cliff'), and Battle of the Withered Grain (Arabic: معركة …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_Gaza_War
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Battle of Gaza, also known as the Gaza civil war, was a brief civil war between Fatah and Hamas that took place in the Gaza Strip from 7 to 15 June 2007. It was a prominent event in the Fatah–Hama…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Gaza_(2007)
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — During the Gaza war, the Popular Forces, an anti-Hamas, Israeli-backed, and allegedly Islamic State-linked armed group, has claimed control over large amounts of the Gaza Strip that are currently unde…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Popular_Forces_administration_…
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“hundreds of thousands of Palestinians into homeless nomads, living in makeshift tents and shacks”
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The provided web search results for this claim are irrelevant (weather reports for Kelowna and Vancouver), providing no evidence regarding Palestinian displacement.
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web search NEUTRAL — Kelowna, BC temperature trend for the next 14 Days. Find daytime highs and nighttime lows from TheWeatherNetwork.com.
https://www.theweathernetwork.com/en/city/ca/british-columbi…
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web search NEUTRAL — Get Kelowna, BC current weather report with temperature, feels like, wind, humidity, pressure, UV and more from TheWeatherNetwork.com.
https://www.theweathernetwork.com/en/city/ca/british-columbi…
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web search NEUTRAL — Get Vancouver, BC current weather report with temperature, feels like, wind, humidity, pressure, UV and more from TheWeatherNetwork.com.
https://www.theweathernetwork.com/en/city/ca/british-columbi…
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“Israeli contractors were spread throughout the Gaza Strip with heavy equipment to tear down buildings randomly and en masse”
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Web search results confirm that Israeli contractors were paid to demolish homes in Gaza and that verified videos show excavators tearing down buildings en masse.
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web search NEUTRAL — The Gaza genocide is the ongoing, intentional, and systematic destruction of the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip carried out by Israel during the Gaza war. It encompasses mass killings, deliberat…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaza_genocide
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web search NEUTRAL — Israeli contractors earn up to $9,000 monthly to demolish Gaza homes, escalating destruction for profit. Bulldozer operators admit motives shifted from money to revenge as demolition chaos intensifies…
https://genocide.news/2025-07-14-israeli-contractors-demolis…
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web search NEUTRAL — Verified videos showing controlled demolitions and excavators tearing down buildings published to social media since the ceasefire have also been geolocated to areas behind the Yellow Line. A map show…
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0mxylxw48yo
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“the second stage of the ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hamas... was signed in October 2025”
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Wikipedia and multiple news sources (France 24) explicitly state that a ceasefire agreement was announced by Donald Trump on October 9, 2025, and went into effect on October 10, 2025.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Gaza war is an armed conflict in the Gaza Strip and Israel, fought as part of the unresolved Israeli–Palestinian and Gaza–Israel conflicts. The war began on 7 October 2023, when the Palestinian mi…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaza_war
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The October 7 attacks were a series of coordinated armed incursions from the blockaded Gaza Strip into the Gaza envelope of southern Israel, carried out by Hamas and several other Palestinian militant…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/October_7_attacks
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — During the October 7 attacks, Israeli women, girls and men were reportedly subjected to sexual violence, including rape and sexual assault by Hamas or other Gazan militants. The militants involved in …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexual_and_gender-based_violen…
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“The first stage included the release of all the Israeli hostages, the release of numerous Palestinian prisoners and detainees, and an Israeli withdrawal from almost half of the Gaza Strip.”
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France 24 reports that the first phase of the agreement involved the release of Israeli hostages in exchange for Palestinian prisoners.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Gaza war is an armed conflict in the Gaza Strip and Israel, fought as part of the unresolved Israeli–Palestinian and Gaza–Israel conflicts. The war began on 7 October 2023, when the Palestinian mi…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaza_war
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The October 7 attacks were a series of coordinated armed incursions from the blockaded Gaza Strip into the Gaza envelope of southern Israel, carried out by Hamas and several other Palestinian militant…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/October_7_attacks
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The following is a list of events during the Israeli–Palestinian conflict in 2025, including the events of the Gaza war.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_Israeli–Palest…
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“The second stage of the agreement... was to have created an international mechanism for administrating the Gaza Strip. This includes the disarming of Hamas and rebuilding the ruins”
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Wikipedia mentions the 'Gaza peace plan' (Comprehensive Plan to End the Gaza Conflict) led by Donald Trump, which aims to address the ongoing war and broader crisis, aligning with the description of a multilateral agreement for administration and reconstruction.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Gaza Strip under Hamas governance began 11 June 2007 when Hamas took over the territory from the rival Fatah-controlled Palestinian Authority (PA). The Hamas administration was first led by Ismail Han…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaza_Strip_under_Hamas
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Gaza peace plan, officially the Comprehensive Plan to End the Gaza Conflict, is a multilateral agreement between Israel and Hamas that aims to address the ongoing Gaza war and broader Middle Easte…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaza_peace_plan
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Gaza war is an armed conflict in the Gaza Strip and Israel, fought as part of the unresolved Israeli–Palestinian and Gaza–Israel conflicts. The war began on 7 October 2023, when the Palestinian mi…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaza_war
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“Israel still occupies over half of the Gaza Strip”
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Al Jazeera explicitly states that Israel 'now physically occupies more than 50 percent of the Gaza Strip,' and Wikipedia notes that Hamas is in control of less than half of the strip following the 2025 agreement.
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web search NEUTRAL — Israel occupied large parts of the Gaza Strip since October 2023 during the Gaza War. As a result of the war and the October 2025 peace agreement that led to the cessation of hostilities, Hamas is in …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaza_Strip
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web search NEUTRAL — Israel now physically occupies more than 50 percent of the Gaza Strip. Since the ceasefire took effect, Israeli attacks have killed at least 414 Palestinians and injured 1,145 in daily truce violation…
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/1/5/israel-extends-gaza-…
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web search NEUTRAL — Most live in Jordan, the Gaza Strip, the West Bank, Syria and Lebanon. Palestinians insist on the right of refugees to return but Israel has refused this. It criticises the UN's Palestinian refugee ag…
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ckgr71z0jp4o
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“the US is concentrating on how to get Iran to give up the 440 kilograms of enriched uranium it holds underground”
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No evidence was found in the provided search results regarding Iran's enriched uranium quantities or US efforts to retrieve them.
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“the Strait of Hormuz, which Iran has closed down to most international shipping”
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No evidence was found in the provided search results regarding the closure of the Strait of Hormuz by Iran.
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“the first round of direct talks between the US and Iran in Islamabad last Saturday to extend the ceasefire and start working on a permanent settlement ended with no results”
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“Tomorrow, Israel is set to start direct talks with Lebanon with the ambassadors of the two states in Washington”
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“the Israeli government is continuing its efforts to pass legislation that threatens Israel’s liberal democracy. One element of this legislation concerns limiting the freedom of the press and electronic media”
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“From 1994 to 2010, she worked at the Knesset Library and the Knesset Research and Information Center.”
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