The AP issues a clarification after reporting that Fahmi Shabaneh, the Palestinian whistleblower who exposed widespread corruption on the part of top Palestinian Authority officials, had been fired two years ago. 
AP's ahistorical claim that conflict over eastern Jerusalem began only when Israel captured the area from Jordan in 1967 has yet to be corrected. In fact, the conflict raged in 1948, and even earlier. After wrongly referring to "Israel's practice of reserving some roads for Jews," the AP corrected its wording. But not before one newspaper published the erroneous language.
The media has long promoted Fatah — in contrast to Hamas — as the party of Palestinian political moderates seeking peace with Israel, while glossing over evidence to the contrary. An example of this was coverage by some media outlets of the Sixth Fatah General Congress, the first such conference in twenty years, which has just concluded. 
Some media coverage of the decision to award a Presidential Medal of Freedom to Mary Robinson, who organized the 2001 UN conference on racism which turned into an anti-Israel and anti-Jewish hate fest, has been superficial. 
As a result of CAMERA's correspondence with AP, the wire service corrects a photo caption which falsely stated that a Palestinian protester has "passed out" from tear gas fired by Israeli troops.
While rumors that a Palestinian mother and her children were deliberately killed have been discredited, the Palestinian Center for Human Rights claims that Abir Hiljeh's story proves the allegation. But their own documents don't support her story.
Did Israel destroy Al Quds Hospital, leaving only, as the AP claimed, "smoldering wreckage"? If so, why does the ICRC report that in "three to five days" hospital services at Al Quds will return to normal? 
As the media broadcast and discuss images of destruction in the Gaza Strip, it is essential that they recall, and alert the public to, Hamas's use of crowded and built up civilian areas as a base for attacking Israel. 
For the second time in several months, the United Nations Secretary-General criticized Palestinian rocket fire from Gaza and Israel's countermeasures against Gaza. For the second time, some journalists reporting on the comments ignored his condemnation of Palestinian violence.