Cadena Ser is Spain’s largest radio network, part of PRISA, the same media group that owns the newspaper El País. It is one of the most influential news outlets in Spain, which explains why many Spanish listeners rely on it to understand international events, including the conflict in the Middle East.
Unfortunately, its reporting does not always meet high journalistic standards, and when it comes to Israel, it very rarely does.
If a news outlet omits key facts from the start, the chances are high that it’s engaging in propaganda, disinformation, or activist reporting rather than objective journalism. And if the text also uses emotionally loaded language, the risk increases even more.
Cadena Ser exemplifies this wholesale failure. On March 14, 2026, in its article titled “Nabi Sheet, Israel’s Largest Attack in Lebanon: ‘Here Israel Punishes the Population,’” Cadena Sera reported:
The population of Lebanon has been living under the threat of Israeli attacks since March 2, when hostilities between Lebanese militia-party Hezbollah and Israel resumed as part of the Middle East escalation. Among the targets of the Israeli army is Nabi Sheet, which has become the scene of the largest Israeli massacre in the country. [Translation by CAMERA Español.]
This description is grossly misleading. Lebanese civilians are not under indiscriminate threat. Israel issues evacuation warnings to avoid civilian casualties, and its operations target Hezbollah, an Iranian-backed terrorist group.
Moreover, as for the “resumed” hostilities, Cadena Ser neglects to note that Hezbollah attacked Israel first, just as it did in 2023, both times dragging Lebanon into war.
On March 8, 2026, The New York Times — a publication hardly known for its sympathy toward Israel — reported, in the opening paragraph of its article titled, quite simply, “Lebanese Villagers Bury Hezbollah Fighters, Praising Their Defiance of Israel”: “After a fierce ground fight between Israeli forces and Iran-backed Hezbollah, the village of Nabi Sheet mourned its dead.”
The report continued:
The fighting in Nabi Sheet began overnight between Friday and Saturday. Israel sent in special forces by helicopter, and once the commandos landed, they were confronted by residents and armed fighters in the village, according to Lebanese state media
On Saturday, Hezbollah said that it had targeted the Israeli force with rockets. …
On Monday, Lebanon became a new front when Hezbollah fired rockets into Israel, shattering a fragile truce in place for more than a year.
The New York Times made clear that the town was burying primarily verified fighters, not civilians.
At one of the funerals in the village, Nabi Sheet, men carried eight bodies — most identified as Hezbollah fighters — through the streets, some draped in the group’s yellow-and-green flag. Women dressed in black shouted in anguish.
“Have you ever seen a village that stood up to Israel as our village did?” said Hiba Kanaan, 27, one of the mourners. She said she had briefly fled the village with her 3-year-old son to escape the violence while her husband stayed on to fight.
In other words, in Nabi Sheet, the situation was combat—between a terrorist group that started the attacks and a democratic state defending itself.
Agence France Presse similarly provided important context which Cadena Ser withheld:
“The sounds of the explosions were like something out of a movie,” Nabi Sheet resident Mohammed Mussa, 55, told AFP during a media tour organized by the Iran-backed group Hezbollah.”
“The Israeli operation faced resistance from Hezbollah fighters. The army had issued evacuation warnings on Friday afternoon. ‘With this warning, we prepared and evacuated the children from the town to protect them,” Nabi Sheet mayor Hani Moussawi said.”
In other words, Israel sacrificed the military advantage of surprise in order to protect civilians.
Cadena Ser, however, filled the role of Hezbollah’s public relations team, falsely reporting that Israel “punished” the townspeople, causing mass civilian casualties: “This town in the Beqaa Valley, eastern Lebanon, is a Hezbollah stronghold and the birthplace of the group in the 1980s. Consequently, the Israeli offensive has severely punished the town’s residents, causing over 40 civilian casualties at the start of the war.”
This is not the first time Cadena Ser has omitted or altered information to demonize Israel. When key facts are systematically omitted including who initiated the violence, what was targeted, or what measures were taken to protect civilians, the result is completely unreliable information. And when such an influential media outlet repeatedly presents the facts in a biased manner, the problem ceases to be isolated: it shapes public perception and grossly skews debate.
For the Spanish version of this post, please see CAMERA Español.