Famously, the slogan “All the News That’s Fit to Print” graces the front page of every New York Times edition. The slogan was coined at the end of the 19th century by the paper’s publisher, Adolph Ochs. Of course, in today’s hyper-globalized world, the slogan is wishful thinking. No paper could realistically cover all the important news stories of the day.
Still, it would be hard to argue that outlets like The New York Times, The Washington Post, CNN and others adequately cover even those stories they do print. They often devote precious space to emotive or opinionated claims, while omitting highly material and relevant information that sheds important new light.
Provided below are three important, but underreported, stories from the week bearing on Israel and the Middle East that media consumers should know.
1) New Revelations on Qatar’s Relationship with ICC Prosecutor Karim Khan
Disgraced International Criminal Court (ICC) prosecutor Karim Khan is in the news, again. It relates to Qatar, again.
By way of background, in 2024, Khan issued arrest warrants for Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former defense minister, Yoav Gallant, related to the war in Gaza. He did so one day after abruptly canceling a planned trip to Israel and Gaza, which he deemed important to undertake before making a decision on whether to issue the warrants. Later, it emerged that more than one of his former staff members accused him of sexual assault. Suspicions arose about the timing of the arrest warrants, with concerns that his legal steps against Israel were a tactic to deflect from the soon-to-be-public allegations.
Nearly six months ago, this column wrote about reporting in The Guardian which revealed high-level Qataris had hired private intelligence firms to discover whether there were any links between Khan’s Malaysian accuser and Israel. (None could be found.)
ICC Prosecutor Karim Khan (center)
This week, the Wall Street Journal – in the editorial section, written by the editorial board – expanded on the Guardian revelation and reported that Qatari involvement with Khan and the ICC matters was wider than previously known. A witness statement (corroborated by audio recordings), submitted to the FBI, now says the Qatari government promised Khan it would “look after” him if he advanced legal proceedings against Netanyahu. Through his counsel, Khan denies this, as does the Qatari embassy.
One of the recordings also indicates that the intelligence firms researched whether American ICC official Thomas Lynch had any ties between Israel or Jewish heritage. The reason for looking into Lynch? He had worked closely with Khan until he reported the assault allegation.
As the editorial board concluded, “In 2024 we wrote that Mr. Khan’s conduct had placed the ICC’s targeting of Israel ‘under a cloud.’ Now it’s raining.”
Other than a couple of Jewish/Israeli outlets and one Turkish outlet, the Wall Street Journal stands alone in American media covering this story of the corruption of an international institution.
2) Israel Sent Iron Dome and IDF Troops to UAE in March
Axios reported this week that early in the war with Iran, Israel sent an Iron Dome system to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) with Israeli troops to operate it. This assistance was not previously reported.
Given that Iran targeted the UAE more than any other country since the U.S.-Israeli military operations in Iran commenced on Feb. 28, 2026, the overwhelming number of attacks led the UAE to seek help. Following a call between Prime Minister Netanyahu and Emirati president Mohammed bin Zayed, Netanyahu ordered the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) to send an Iron Dome battery with interceptors, as well as several dozen IDF operators.
Outside of the United States and of course, Israel, the UAE is the first country to use the system, which intercepted dozens of Iranians missiles. Such close defense cooperation is an outgrowth of the 2020 peace treaty between Israel and the UAE. A senior Emirati official is quoted as saying the Emiratis “are not going to forget” the assistance they received from Israel.
Newsweek reported on what Axios wrote, as did some Israeli and Jewish outlets. Otherwise, no major American media picked up the story.
The Financial Times reported that in addition to sending the Iron Dome, Israel also sent to the UAE a lightweight surveillance system called Spectro and a version of its Iron Beam laser defense system. Spectro helped detect incoming drones from as far as 20 kilometers away whereas the Iron Beam vaporizes short-range rockets and drones. Notably, however, the UAE, the Israeli Ministry of Defense, the manufacturer of the Spectro and the primary developer of the Iron Beam all declined to comment.
Some Israeli media reported this, but the mainstream American media has not.
3) Hamas is Sexually Assaulting Gazan Boys
Hamas is a U.S.-recognized terrorist organization. It is not only committed to the destruction of the State of Israel and the killing of Jews, but it is a radical Islamist group that will sacrifice and hurt its own Palestinian people to achieve its genocidal goals.
In a bombshell story this week, The Daily Mail reported the rape of children in Gaza – with some of the victims as young as nine years old. Hamas silences the victims and their families with blackmail and coerces them into submitting to Hamas, including forcing the children to join the terror organization’s ranks as they grow older.
One father confronted an imam who allegedly raped his son. To keep the father quiet, the imam threatened to send Hamas’ military wing to shoot him, after which they would spread the lie that the father was an Israeli collaborator.
The Daily Mail sourced the evidence from Jusoor News, which serves as a Palestinian voice against Hamas and operates under cover in Gaza, Lebanon, Syria and Iraq. Jusoor obtained filmed testimony from boys in Gaza who were raped in mosques, which it provided to The Daily Mail. It has also reported on Hamas’ harassment and exploitation of orphans and unmarried women despite pressure from Hamas not to do so.
We were not the only ones to notice how this was not being reported. The Israeli Foreign Ministry posted on the social media platform X about the report and called out the world’s silence, specifically tagging the BBC, CNN, New York Times and other news outlets who did not report the story.
Hamas operatives are raping children. Hamas is recruiting kids for terror. Families are blackmailed into silence.
This is pedophilia. This is child soldiers. This is systematic evil.
The world’s silence is complicity. Name it. Condemn it. Act.@BBC @CNN @nytimes @guardian…— Israel Foreign Ministry (@IsraelMFA) April 27, 2026
Mainstream American media outlets have not covered the story. It was covered by several Israeli outlets.