On days the temperatures in Gaza were warm and sunny, London-based NBC reporters described Gaza as "bitter," "cold" and "freezing" in their writing. How did they get objective facts so wrong?
This week: Hamas's marching orders for Al Jazeera, Palestinians openly discuss Hamas's use of hospitals, new archaeological finds, and the International Court of Justice's irrelevance.
If information backed up by publicly shared Hamas documents is "unsubstantiated," as The Los Angeles Times suggests, what could possibly constitute substantiation regarding "journalists" moonlighting as terrorists?
Most British media ignored IDF evidence that Anas Al-Sharif, a Hamas commander operating under the guise of an Al Jazeera reporter, was the head of a terrorist cell responsible for rocket attacks. Instead, outlets largely described him as a “journalist,” omitting the long-documented overlap between Hamas operatives and Gaza-based reporters.
When writing about the airstrike that killed Hussam Shabat, New York Times reporters initially failed to note that the journalist was also alleged to be a Hamas-trained sniper. (AI-generated image for illustrative purposes.)