Accuracy and accountability are among the most important tenets of journalism. In combination, they mean media organizations are expected to publish or broadcast forthright corrections after sharing inaccurate information. The following corrections are among the many prompted by CAMERA’s communication with reporters and editors.
CAMERA prompts corrections in both English and Arabic after Reuters misleadingly reported that Israel alone blames Iran for the 1994 bombing of the Buenos Aires Jewish center in which 85 were murdered. The United States and Argentina also blame Iran.
Reuters misleadingly reported March 13 that "Hezbollah launched rockets at Israel in October in support of Hamas," as if the terror organization's incessant attacks hadn't continued up until that very same morning.
While the Biden Administration's decision to consider settlements illegal under international law in no way restores a decades-long U.S. policy, media reports that it does just that do revive long-standing miscoverage of U.S. policy.
UPDATE: Reuters corrects a video which falsely reported that Israel has ordered the evacuation of over one million Palestinians in Rafah southward. Any evacuation of Palestinians in Rafah further south would mean evacuation into Egypt, and Israel has absolutely not ordered the evacuation of Palestinians onto Egyptian territory.
“No one has correct numbers, that’s not possible anymore,” Health Ministry official Mehdat Abbas told AP. “Who can count the bodies and release the death toll in a press conference?” And yet it's business as usual at Reuters, which keeps on reporting mysterious casualty statistics attributed to "authorities in Gaza" and "health officials."
Reuters commendably corrects after overstating the number of Palestinians living in refugee camps in Lebanon and clarifies that the victims of a Palestinian attack were Israeli.
Following communication from CAMERA, Reuters deletes the false claim that the Jenin refugee camp "was largely destroyed by Israeli troops during a previous incursion two decades ago." In fact, according to a U.N. report, 10 percent of the camp was "totally destroyed" in the 2002 incursion.
Ashraf Ibrahim, killed in a gunbattle with Israeli troops, was a Palestinian intelligence officer. He also moonlighted as a fighter with the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigade, a designated terrorist organization affiliated with Fatah. News stories reported the former work while leaving out the latter.