Israel has announced plans to sue the New York Times over a column accusing Israeli soldiers, prison guards and others of raping and sexually abusing Palestinian prisoners in detention facilities.The announcement came on Thursday, following Monday's publication of an opinion piece by veteran journalist Nicholas Kristof.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Foreign Minister Gideon Sa'ar have instructed their legal teams to consider the harshest action against both the newspaper and the columnist. Israel's ministry of foreign affairs described the article as one of the most hideous and distorted lies ever published against the State of Israel in the modern press.
