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This is a topic that has centuries of history, dating back well before the existence of either Israel or Palestine as countries. You won't find a single source that can actually get into the thousands of nuances involved. Don't think there are only two sides, either. Read from everywhere, make up your own mind, but honestly you'll never fully understand it.

I doubt you're going to find truly neutral. We'll not know who is lying to us on any particular article.

For particular Gaza, Palestine news, you can read Al Jazeera. The Washington Post has good coverage of all the news.

Probably nowhere, to be honest.

Today's Israeli-Palestinian conflict dates back thousands of years and combines politics, religion, race, war, and territory all in one.

If you really want to understand this from a non- biased point of view, your best bet is probably wikipedia, where different people with different viewpoints can debate the facts and non-biased writing is somewhat enforced.

The truth is that it's a very complex conflict with innocent people and some very shitty people, on both sides.

Not a great idea to try. It's theoretically possible but fraught with peril. Instead, it's much more feasible to pick two news sources, one pro-whatever and one against, and check both.

There's aggregators like (our sponsor,) ground news (!) that let you sort by stance and affiliation, that can make it more convenient.

If you must go with a shortcut, pick a country that is interested in the conflict, but not particularly on one side or the other, and read how its being reported there. India for instance, has been fairly neutral on this conflict, to the dismay of both sides, as they have economic ties to both Israel and the Arab world. They're being critical of more or less everyone, and especially the British. lol Still not unbiased though, y'know?

So, it's better to just check both sides regularly.

https://israelpalestine.liveuamap.com/

I've found ground.news' layout quite useful in sutuations like this.

Nowhere.

Neutrality isn't a thing. Everything written about something as contentious as this is propaganda.

For attempts to be neutral, try Western mainstream media or Wikipedia (which mostly just summarizes Western mainstream media anyway).

For one sided propaganda for Israel, try https://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/

For one sided propaganda for Palestine, try https://mondoweiss.net/

Read all those and choose for yourself what parts of which sides you want to believe. Or don't. You can also live in peace and happiness knowing that the conflict exists without thinking about it too much because in the end it doesn't really matter what you think about it anyway.

Just read the news from both sides and ask yourself what's the most logical explanation when you combine those two sources.

It's the closest you'll get to an objective truth as there is one in a conflict older that any other conflict I am currently aware of.

noncredibledefense lol

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.