I don't know if PM Netanyahu has legal basis to sue the NYT, but the facts are on Netanyahu's side. As an example, the NYT has tried to claim that UN aid to Gaza is effective when the facts say the opposite.
"The United Nations Office for Project Services has published data showing that since the resumption of humanitarian aid deliveries to Gaza on May 19 and up until August 5, a total of 2,604 aid trucks were collected by the UN after entering the Strip. Of those, 2,309 did not reach their intended destinations inside the enclave.
According to the organization, this was due to the trucks being “intercepted either peacefully by hungry people or forcefully by armed actors during transit in Gaza.” This accounts for 88% of all trucks.
In recent months, the percentages were even higher. According to UNOPS, in June, 1,155 trucks were collected by the UN and its partner organizations, and 1,048 of them — 90.7% — were intercepted before reaching their destinations. In July, the figure rose to 94%, with 1,161 trucks collected and 1,093 intercepted."
• Israel's claim is not false, it is just unproven
• Neither the American nor the Israeli government has concluded this, it is just some anonymous people in Israel's military
A trial on this issue and the misrepresented photos of emaciated kids with genetic diseases would be very illuminating. But it is not clear whether such a trial will happen.
The study to which Ambassador Huckabee referred is the subject of a WSJ op-ed by one of its authors: https://www.wsj.com/opinion/how-humanitarian-aid-feeds-war-machines-support-hunger-suffering-44a85d94?st=ySy1cf&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
The study is at https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5380004
With respect to the NYT stock situation I thought that they were a fertilizer manufacturer just based on the amount of bullshit that they produce.
I don't know if PM Netanyahu has legal basis to sue the NYT, but the facts are on Netanyahu's side. As an example, the NYT has tried to claim that UN aid to Gaza is effective when the facts say the opposite.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/un-around-88-of-aid-trucks-collected-in-gaza-did-not-reach-destinations-due-to-looting-or-theft/
"The United Nations Office for Project Services has published data showing that since the resumption of humanitarian aid deliveries to Gaza on May 19 and up until August 5, a total of 2,604 aid trucks were collected by the UN after entering the Strip. Of those, 2,309 did not reach their intended destinations inside the enclave.
According to the organization, this was due to the trucks being “intercepted either peacefully by hungry people or forcefully by armed actors during transit in Gaza.” This accounts for 88% of all trucks.
In recent months, the percentages were even higher. According to UNOPS, in June, 1,155 trucks were collected by the UN and its partner organizations, and 1,048 of them — 90.7% — were intercepted before reaching their destinations. In July, the figure rose to 94%, with 1,161 trucks collected and 1,093 intercepted."
Ambassador Huckabee quotes a study demonstrating that the situation with UN aid in Gaza is part of a wider pattern of UN aid being diverted in many conflict zones: https://x.com/GovMikeHuckabee/status/1953660821352939604
Somehow this data doesn't appear in the NYT, which tried to convince us that it is false to say that Hamas tends to steal aid (https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/26/world/middleeast/hamas-un-aid-theft.html). But to make this claim the NYT had to add 4 big caveats:
• The NYT is only talking about routine stealing
• The NYT is only talking about UN aid
• Israel's claim is not false, it is just unproven
• Neither the American nor the Israeli government has concluded this, it is just some anonymous people in Israel's military
A trial on this issue and the misrepresented photos of emaciated kids with genetic diseases would be very illuminating. But it is not clear whether such a trial will happen.