A masked Palestinian protester prepares to hurl back a tear gas canister towards Israeli forces during clashes in the town of Beita, near the occupied West Bank city of Nablus, opposite the newly-established Israeli wildcat settler outpost of Eviatar, on July 9, 2021. JAAFAR ASHTIYEH / AFP
A masked Palestinian protester hurls stones towards Israeli forces during clashes in the town of Beita, near the occupied West Bank city of Nablus, opposite the newly-established Israeli wildcat settler outpost of Eviatar, on July 9, 2021. JAAFAR ASHTIYEH / AFP
Palestinian Red Crescent medics evacuate an injured protestor during clashes with Israeli forces in the town of Beita, near the occupied West Bank city of Nablus, opposite the newly-established Israeli wildcat settler outpost of Eviatar, on July 9, 2021. JAAFAR ASHTIYEH / AFP
Israeli settlers left an illegal outpost in the occupied West Bank Friday in adherence to an agreement struck with nationalist premier Naftali Bennett’s new government, AFP reporters and a settler leader said.
With Israeli military and police on site, the last cars streamed out of Eviatar — near the Palestinian city of Nablus — in compliance with the 4:00 pm (1300 GMT) deadline to leave the outpost.
Why don’t the captions give any indication that the outpost its emptied of residents, selectively and misleadingly reporting only that it’s “newly-established”? CAMERA has contacted AFP to request modification of the captions to make clear that the outpost has been evacuated.
July 14 Update: AFP Amends, But Doesn't Improve, Newer Captions
Following publication of this post, AFP captions published July 13 concerning Palestinian demonstrations in the area of the evacuated Eviatar outpost no longer carried reference to the "newly-established." Yesterday's captions refer to "the Israeli settlers' outpost of Eviatar." They still include no indication that the outpost is evacuated, and thus continue to mislead news consumer.
