By Wyatt Reed | The Grayzone | May 24, 2026 In one of its most brazen disinformation efforts in years, the British tabloid The Daily Mail has published a fake news story claiming that an Israeli woman who was permitted to leave by Hamas militants only avoided being sexually assaulted by showing her captors her scar. According to the woman in question, May Hayat, she had been taken prisoner by “terrorists” at the Nova music festival on October 7,…
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