Dec. 15, 2025 (JERUSALEM) – As Hezbollah and Hamas violate ceasefire agreements by refusing to disarm, the Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting and Analysis (CAMERA) calls on international news outlets to clearly report on these breaches by the designated terror organizations.
CAMERA, the world’s leading Middle East media monitoring organization, warns against news reports that ignore violations by Hezbollah in Lebanon and Hamas in the Gaza Strip, and which falsely depict Israel’s preemptive strikes on their terror infrastructure as uniquely threatening the agreements or, worse, unleashing “Israeli imperialism” into the region, as The New York Times recently put it.
The 2024 ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hezbollah is extremely detailed about the requirement for the terror organization’s disarmament. The document lays out that Lebanon’s official security forces “will be the only armed groups, arms, and related materiel” in southern Lebanon, and requires them to “confiscate all unauthorized arms,” meaning Hezbollah’s, “starting in” the south.
In addition, prohibiting Hezbollah’s rearming, the agreement requires the Lebanese military and security forces to “Monitor and enforce against any unauthorized entry of arms and related materiel into and throughout Lebanon, including through all border crossings, and against the unauthorized production of arms and materiel within Lebanon.” It also stipulates: “Starting with the Southern Litani Area, dismantle all existing unauthorized facilities involved in the production of arms and related materiel, and prevent the establishment of such facilities in the future.”
The IDF reports that it has submitted over 1,860 reports of ceasefire violations to international monitors. And contrary to recent reporting in The Washington Post, Hezbollah’s effort to rebuild its military arsenal in violation of the agreement is not merely an unsubstantiated Israeli allegation. As The Wall Street Journal recently reported, “Hezbollah has been rebuilding its armaments and battered ranks since then, according to people familiar with Israeli and Arab intelligence.” [Emphasis added.]
CAMERA urges journalists to make use of the abundant available resources documenting Hezbollah efforts to recover and rebuild, including the Alma Research and Education Center, the Meir Amit Intelligence & Terrorism Information Center and The Institute for National Security Studies.
CAMERA also calls on news outlets to forthrightly report the Lebanese government’s recent hesitation to confront Hezbollah given the terror organization’s threat to resist disarmament with “civil war.” Indeed, undermining the ceasefire terms, Lebanese President Joseph Aoun recently opined: “weapons are not the main issue; it is the intention to use them that matters.”
Multiple media outlets have commented that the situation in the Gaza Strip is increasingly mirroring that of Lebanon, alleging that an unprovoked Israel is attacking two docile organizations – Hamas and Hezbollah. Ignored in this blame-Israel narrative is the fact that Hamas has engaged in endless daily ceasefire violations since the sides signed off on President Donald Trump’s 20-point ceasefire plan for the Gaza Strip. Violations include delaying the release of hostages (the terror organization still holds the body of Master Sgt. Ran Gvili), ongoing attacks including several which wounded and killed soldiers, and non-stop incursions into Israel’s side of the “Yellow Line.”
Tamar Sternthal, director of CAMERA’s Research and Analysis Media Department and director of the organization’s Israel office said: “Media outlets are duty bound to clearly and forthrightly report Hezbollah and Hamas ceasefire obligations and violations, without unjustified qualifications and obfuscations.”
“Whitewashing the well-documented and blatant violations counters journalistic ethics. Such inexcusable journalistic failures grossly mislead news consumers and serve the terror organizations which are driving the region closer to more war with their unrepentant resolve to rebuild their terror capabilities.”
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Founded in 1982, the Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting & Analysis is a media monitoring, research, and membership organization devoted to promoting accurate and balanced coverage of Israel and the Middle East. CAMERA fosters rigorous reporting while educating news consumers about Middle East issues and the role of the media. Because public opinion ultimately shapes public policy, distorted news coverage that misleads the public can be detrimental to sound policymaking. A non-partisan organization, CAMERA takes no position with regard to British, American or Israeli political issues or with regard to ultimate solutions to the Arab-Israeli conflict.
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