Famously, the slogan “All the News That’s Fit to Print” graces the front page of every New York Times edition. The slogan was coined at the end of the 19th century by the paper’s publisher, Adolph Ochs. Of course, in today’s hyper-globalized world, the slogan is wishful thinking. No paper could realistically cover all the important news stories of the day.
Still, it would be hard to argue that outlets like the New York Times, the Washington Post, CNN, and others adequately cover even those stories they do print. They often devote precious space to emotive or opinionated claims, while omitting highly material and relevant information that sheds important new light.
Provided below are three important, but underreported, stories from the week bearing on Israel and the Middle East that media consumers should know.
1) Hamas Hoarding Baby Formula
Throughout the war, countless false allegations were made against Israel. Among them was the claim that Israel was blocking the entry of baby formula into Gaza. The lie was heavily promoted by mainstream media and the United Nations, both of which relied exclusively on claims made by pro-Hamas and actual Hamas “doctors,” as CAMERA’s Jennifer Kouzi recently pointed out.
But, as even the UN itself knew, baby formula was being allowed into Gaza. So if infants in Gaza were not getting the baby formula, where was it going?
Much of it, as it turns out, was being hoarded in secret warehouses belonging to Hamas’s “Ministry of Health.” According to Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib, a Gaza-born Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council, who posted video evidence of these warehouses, “Hamas deliberately hid literal tons of infant formula and nutritional shakes for children by storing them in clandestine warehouses” in order to “worsen the hunger crisis and initiate a disaster as part of the terror group’s famine narrative.”
During the worst of the days of the hunger crisis in Gaza in the past six months, Hamas deliberately hid literal tons of infant formula and nutritional shakes for children by storing them in clandestine warehouses belonging to the Gaza Ministry of Health.
The goal, as I said… pic.twitter.com/pANo9uHfAb
— Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib (@afalkhatib) December 9, 2025
Once again, Hamas knew it could rely on Western media to play along. While Hamas deliberately harmed its own people, it knew it could rely on outlets like NBC and CNN to shift the blame onto Israel instead.
Perhaps one day Western media will get tired of being a tool for terrorist propaganda. But that day has not yet arrived. Among major Western media outlets, only The Telegraph covered the story.
2) Israel’s Diplomatic Victories in Latin America
Israel has scored a string of victories in the diplomatic realm with Latin American countries. Among the most significant is the Dec. 9 restoration of ties between Bolivia and Israel. For years, Bolivia’s government had been hostile to the Jewish state under the leadership of Evo Morales’s Movement Toward Socialism party. That position changed with the election of Bolivian President Rodrigo Paz Pereira in October who, in addition to long being known as a friend of the Jewish people, had run on a platform of repairing relations with Western partners.
Other recent positive developments include improved relations with Argentina, Ecuador, and Costa Rica, all of which will be opening embassies or diplomatic offices in Jerusalem in 2026, joining Guatemala, Paraguay, and Honduras, which already maintain embassies there. While Jerusalem is the capital of Israel, many countries have refused to open an embassy there, citing the disputed nature of the city, opting for Tel Aviv instead.
Among major Western media outlets, only AP News covered the restoration of ties between Bolivia and Israel.
3) Evidence Emerges of Hamas’s Execution of a Hostage
The body of Noa Marciano, a 19-year-old Israeli soldier who was taken hostage on Oct. 7, 2023, was among the first to be recovered from Gaza. Her body was found by Israeli forces near al-Shifa Hospital in Nov. 2023. At the time, the Israel Defense Forces stated that “she was murdered by a Hamas terrorist in the Shifa Hospital.”
Now her father, Avi, has shared publicly how Hamas murdered her – by injecting air into her veins. According to Avi, he has seen “footage of a medical professional lethally injecting air into his daughter’s veins after she was taken to Shifa Hospital in Gaza City.”
Noa is far from the only hostage murdered in captivity by Palestinian terrorists. Perhaps most infamously, Palestinian terrorists executed Shiri Bibas and her two young children (aged four and 10 months) “with their bare hands.”
Only the Daily Mail and the New York Post covered Avi Marciano’s revelation.
Historical Context for Current Events
As multiple Latin American countries prepare to open diplomatic offices and embassies in Jerusalem, tomorrow (Dec. 13) will be the 45th anniversary of Israel’s adoption of the Basic Law: Jerusalem, the Capital of Israel. As the name suggests, the quasi-constitutional law established Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. But it also mandated:
The Holy Places shall be protected against desecration, and any other violation, and against anything that is liable to violate the freedom of access of members of the various religions to the places sacred to them, or to offend their feelings towards those places.
Prior to 1967, when Israel recaptured the Old City in Jerusalem from Jordan, Jews had been forbidden from accessing their holy sites. It was only after Israel’s liberation of the holy city that those of all religions could access their respective religious sites there.