Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during a press conference in Jerusalem, Wednesday, May 21, 2025.

The New York Times issued a strong statement on Thursday in response to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who told Fox News during a sit-down interview this week that the paper should be sued over its reporting on Israel’s ongoing assault on Gaza.

“I’m actually looking at whether a country can sue The New York Times,” Netanyahu said in the interview, which aired on Thursday. “And I’m looking into it right now because I think it’s such... it’s such clear defamation.”

Netanyahu was referring to a front-page Times report on the mass starvation of besieged Palestinians in Gaza. His gripe appears to be that the story didn’t originally note that one of the malnourished boys featured in the piece suffered from pre-existing health issues, which may have affected his physique.

Netanyahu told Fox News that the reported rise of antisemitism is tied directly to a “campaign of vilification that is done by so-called reputable news media” — and slammed the Times for updating the story with what he called a lacking........

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