By Alice Cuddy BBC News, Jerusalem


The call to Mahmoud Shaheen came at dawn.

It was Thursday 19 October at about 06:30, and Israel had been bombing Gaza for 12 days straight.

He’d been in his third-floor, three-bedroom flat in al-Zahra, a middle-class area in the north of the Gaza Strip. Until now, it had been largely untouched by air strikes.

He’d heard a rising clamour outside. People were screaming. “You need to escape,” somebody in the street shouted, “because they will bomb the towers”.

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    1 year ago

    Did you mean unbiased?

    Well, that would mean a whole lot of work than just making sure people are civil. That would mean fact checking, confirming and banning accordingly.

    That is a LOT of work… Can’t fault the mods for that.

    As long as it is civil, it should be what it is. At least that’s my opinion.

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      1 year ago

      Yes, I meant unbiased, sorry.

      But look at our scores. We are voices that defies the echo chamber. Therefor we must be silenced.

      It sucks, because I actually genuinely was happy for Lemmy, and had moved all my browsing over here. But alas, it seems that I can no longer use this platform for news. I will go back to having this community blocked.

      PS) Try going to r/worldnews and Reddit, and check what the tone of audience is over there. Much more biased towards Israel, which is a no-brainer in my world.

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        1 year ago

        After many years on r/worldnews I learned to spot the organic content from the astroturfed. Regulars were absolutely in no way pro Israel. It was always obvious when the brigade would show up