Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant<\/p>\n
The Washington Post has quietly removed an outlandish claim by Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant that Hamas battle plans included specific instructions on which Israeli troops should be raped during their October 7 incursion.<\/p>\n
In the original article<\/a>, which was published on November 12 and promoted as a Washington Post \u201cexclusive,\u201d Gallant is quoted as telling the outlet: \u201cWe know from interrogations that Hamas came in with detailed plans of their attack, including which commander should rape which soldiers in different places.\u201d<\/p>\n A day later, the allegation disappeared from the piece, which had been amended<\/a> to include\u00a0the following \u201ccorrection\u201d:<\/p>\n \u201cA previous version of this article included a quote from Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant that was not authorized for publication. The quote has been removed.\u201d<\/p>\n The act of self-censorship was seemingly first spotted by a social media user who suggested that the embarrassing incident was the result of what they described<\/a> as \u201cthe Israeli way\u201d of propaganda: \u201cPrivately lying to a journalist to shape her coverage, then scrambling to correct the record when the journalist accidentally prints the lies you told her in confidence.\u201d<\/p>\n WaPo had a story in November that originally included an insane quote from Israel's Defense Minister Yoav Gallant: "Hamas came in with detailed plans of their attack, including which commander should rape which soldier in different places," which they removed at Israel's request pic.twitter.com\/fqp8Sz6Ey3<\/a><\/p>\n — 12 Ball (@BoltzmannBooty) January 2, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n