An AP headline stated as fact the unverified claim that Israeli forces fatally shot four aid seekers: "Israeli forces kill 4 more aid seekers as northern Gaza braces for looming offensive." Following communication from CAMERA, editors added attribution, qualifying the claim as just that.
CAMERA's Hebrew department prompted corrections in both English and Hebrew after the Israeli daily Haaretz erroneously repeated the false canard that the Gaza Strip is the world's most densely populated place.
AP amends after ignoring that the Temple Mount is Judaism's most sacred site. In Gaza Strip coverage, the wire service corrects a headline which upgraded to fact an unverified claim about Israeli military culpability in the death of over 20 aid-seekers and also deletes misleading reporting on the U.N.'s own information regarding theft of humanitarian aid.
On Israel's Memorial Day, CAMERA prompts corrections at dozens of McClatchy news sites after a United Press International wire service article falsely claimed that Israel had started war with Hamas in October 2023.
More than a year and a half after multiple foreign intelligence sources ruled out an Israeli airstrike as responsible for the deadly Al-Ahli hospital blast, pointing instead to an errant Palestinian rocket, some media outlets regress into the murky fog of war mode.
CAMERA prompts correction at The Hollywood Reporter after an otherwise informative article absurdly stated: "Israel’s response to the Oct. 7, 2023, terrorist attacks sparked the ongoing Israeli-Gaza conflict."
CAMERA's Israel office has prompted Agence France Presse corrections in both English and French after the news agency grossly inflated Hamas' own claim about the death toll in the Gaza Strip from 436 to 970.
CAMERA prompts New York Times and Haaretz corrections after both media outlets wrongly reported that Israel's decision to cut electricity to the Gaza Strip impacted a wastewater treatment plant. In fact, the lone affected facility was a desalination plant.
CAMERA again prompts a Reuters correction after the wire service erased the Oct. 7 massacre, inventing that the Israel-Hamas war started in the Gaza Strip. In fact, it began with Hamas' devastating invasion of southern Israel, unleashing an orgy of murder, kidnapping, rape, mutilations and torture.
CAMERA prompts an AFP correction after the wire service misreported that Netanyahu has opposed "any Palestinian governance in the Gaza Strip." In fact, the Israeli Prime Minister has called for "civilian administration run by Palestinians who do not seek to destroy Israel."
