The New York Times responded to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ‘s threat to sue the publication, characterizing it as the latest such effort to go after independent media.

In an interview on Fox News on Thursday, Netanyahu said that the Times “should be sued” over its cover of the crisis in Gaza . “I’m actually looking at whether a country can sue The New York Times ,” Netanyahu said. “And I’m looking into it right now, because I think it’s such a — it’s such clear defamation. I mean, you put a picture of a child that’s supposed to then represent all these supposedly starving children, yet they put in this picture of a child who has cerebral palsy.”

The Times put an editors’ note on a story about Gazans dying of starvation. It included images of a mother holding her ch

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