After contact from CAMERA, The Washington Post changed an Aug. 31, 2025 report, “Gaza postwar plan envisions ‘voluntary’ relocation of entire population,” which inaccurately claimed that the 2005 Israeli withdrawal from Gaza was the result of a peace agreement. The dispatch asserted that “Israeli settlers lived alongside Palestinians there until 2005, when a peace agreement mandated their departure.”
However, this is incorrect. In fact, that withdrawal was famously an Israeli decision—a unilateral move made in the absence of negotiations after Palestinian leaders refused U.S. and Israeli offers for statehood in 2000 at Camp David and 2001 at Taba.
Indeed, as CAMERA pointed out to Post staff, the newspaper itself has noted as much on several occasions, including in an Aug. 14, 2005 dispatch (“Twilight Falls for Settlers in Gaza”), which observed that the “disengagement plan” was a “unilateral evacuation” that was criticized by some Israelis who worried that “the withdrawal from Gaza, without any Palestinian concessions in return, will encourage more attacks on Israel.”
Following contact from CAMERA, the Post amended the report to note that “Israel maintained settlements in Gaza until 2005, when it unilaterally withdrew from the enclave.”