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I've been a cord cutter for a long time and I enjoyed watching world news on Al Jazeera for a long time. While I definitely enjoyed their content as an alternative to the celebrity fluff filled US cable news, it's definitely biased against Israel when it comes to this conflict. However, I would still recommend everyone watch Al Nakba which is streaming for free with no ads on their website. It's a four episode documentary series about the founding of Israel with primary accounts of what happened in the ground there from Arabs, Israelis, and British officers.

It's probably very biased and one-sided, but the rest of the media is very biased and one-sided in the other direction.

For example, Wikipedia says that the 1948 war was started by the Arabs once Israel declared a state. In Al Nakba, they challenge that narrative with first-hand accounts from Arabs and British officers who say that it was the Israelis who started the war through ethnic cleansing of Palestinian villages, in some cases before the British even left.

I agree with InfiniteGlitch, this conflict has been going on for centuries, arguably millennia. IMO, at its core, it's land rights with religion piled on top. Depending on who you talk to, both sides have plenty of reason to hate each other (doesn't make it lead to any good) because of what their forefathers have done up to present day atrocities. Ultimately, it has come down to reactionary hate over land rights, freedom, fear and safety. I find it helpful to read the facts of what is happening from a distance and take the emotion out of it. When you do that, I'm not sure how this conflict will end. There is so much retaliation. The prisoner thing has me understanding why they're going overboard. The backlash from Israel makes sense if you think you're justified in keeping everyone in an open air prison. I hope they all find peace, but I don't see how that can happen when everyone is raised in that environment of hate & vengeance. Basically, read everything you can on it and take the facts from each. Everyone will spin it to their opinion.

There's definitely places to get unbiased news, but each side is likely to hide information.

In general, there are a couple good resources that show bias in different news sources, you can check those out.

https://www.allsides.com/media-bias/media-bias-chart

https://adfontesmedia.com/gallery/

At Telegram channels. Subscribe to the top channels for both and then use your own discretion. Note: You need to use translate tool in Telegram as they use local languages.

If you need some hints for the name of the channels (the ones I sub to):

1. For the Israeli: search for kod[twice]group about 148k subscribers.

2. For Gaza: search for G××× Now. about 1.5M subscribers.

Need to be careful. There are some fake channels having similar names to those. So you need to double check the number of subscriptions.