NYT were not the first
Like almost all your articles, this one deserves a much wider readership than it will probably get. However I’d like to mention that it is in error in its claim that the NYT were the first to report this.
It may be true they were the first to interview those particular anonymous IDF soldiers but the claims made have been reported in a number of independent media outlets. In particular, I remember reading such reports in +972 magazine [www.972mag.com], an Israeli publication run as a co-operative with both Jewish and Palestinian staff and contributors, who were also the first to report on the “Lavendar” AI software that the IDF was using to determine targets without consideration of civilian casualties.
I suppose many people dismiss certain reports as unreliable until they appear in major MSM outlets. It’s a good thing especailly when the NYT finally does, given its appalling record of how it has reported the IDF’s actions in Gaza and the Occupied Territories.
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