The Irish Times Article Rating

Israel hits Syrian coastal region with 'heaviest strikes' in a decade

Dec 16, 2024 View Original Article
  • Bias Rating

    -2% Center

  • Reliability

    40% ReliableFair

  • Policy Leaning

    -2% Center

  • Politician Portrayal

    2% Negative

Bias Score Analysis

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

52% : The United Nations intends to offer all kinds of help to the Syrian people, UN Syria envoy Geir Pedersen told Syrian rebel leader Ahmed al-Sharaa and caretaker prime minister Mohammad al-Bashir during a meeting in Damascus, according to a statement released by the UN envoy's office on Monday.
50% : The EU is sending a senior diplomat to Damascus to make contacts with Syria's new Islamist-led leaders, in a further sign of western engagement after the fall of the dictator Bashar al-Assad.
48% : Elsewhere, at least 12 Palestinians were killed, including children, in an Israeli air strike on a shelter for the displaced in Gaza's Khan Younis school on Sunday, the Hamas-run Civil Defence agency said.Israeli prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu has said he had a "very friendly, warm and important discussion" with Donald Trump over the weekend about his plans in Syria and efforts to secure the release of hostages in Gaza.

*Our bias meter rating uses data science including sentiment analysis, machine learning and our proprietary algorithm for determining biases in news articles. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral. The rating is an independent analysis and is not affiliated nor sponsored by the news source or any other organization.

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