Agence France Presse published multiple articles yesterday about Turkish efforts to enlist support from Muslim allies to exert their influence in the Gaza Strip. Judging by the articles’ grossly tendentious depiction of threats to the Gaza ceasefire, one would think that the AFP itself is carrying out a parallel campaign for its millions of Western readers.
Two AFP articles yesterday reported (“Turkey set to rally Muslim allies over Gaza war,” 6:18 am GMT, and “Turkey rallies Muslim allies over Gaza reconstruction,” 10:16 am GMT”) reported:
The October 10 ceasefire in the two-year-long Israel-Hamas war, brokered by US President Donald Trump, has become increasingly fragile, tested by continued Israeli strikes and claims of Palestinian attacks on Israeli soldiers. (Emphasis added.]
A third story yesterday carried a slight variation in the wording (“Turkey, Muslim allies say Palestinian self-rule key to Gaza future“):
Brokered by US President Donald Trump, the October 10 ceasefire — which halted two years of continuous bloodshed — has been tested by fresh Israeli strikes and claims of Palestinian attacks on Israeli soldiers.
Notably, AFP qualified actual Palestinian attacks — some of them fatal and all of them in gross violation of the ceasefire — as mere “claims,” suggesting that maybe in fact they did not occur.
But as AFP itself rightly acknowledged on Oct. 29: “Gaza’s civil defence agency said Wednesday that overnight air strikes killed at least 50 people in the Palestinian territory, as the Israeli military hit a string of targets after an attack that left a soldier dead.” (Emphasis added.)
AFP likewise rightly reported on Oct. 20, after a Palestinian attack killed two Israeli soldiers in Rafah: “The Israeli military struck dozens of Hamas positions across Gaza on Sunday after the militants killed two of its soldiers and Israel accused the group of “a blatant violation” of the truce.”
In addition, AFP’s grossly skewed account of ceasefire violations ignored the American and Israeli position that Hamas is in violation of the ceasefire’s requirement that the terror organization release all deceased hostages which it can locate in the first 48 hours.
Similarly, Israeli slammed Hamas as violating the ceasefire in handing over partial remains it claimed belonged to one of the 13 hostages whose bodies were still in Gaza but were discovered to belong to a hostage recovered by IDF troops in December 2023.
Hamas are lying about our hostages and here’s the proof:
Yesterday, Hamas terrorists were filmed removing body remains from a prepared structure and re-burying them nearby, before summoning Red Cross representatives to stage a false “discovery” for photographers.
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— Israel Defense Forces (@IDF) October 28, 2025
As AFP reported Oct. 28:
. . . Israel accused Hamas of breaking the terms of the US-brokered ceasefire.
Hamas handed over what it said was the body of a 16th hostage Monday but Israeli forensic examination determined Hamas had in fact handed over partial remains of Ofir Tzarfati — whose body had already been brought back to Israel around two years ago, according to a statement from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office.
“I can confirm to you today that Hamas dug a hole in the ground yesterday, placed the partial remains of Ofir inside of it, covered it back up with dirt, and handed it over to the Red Cross,” government spokeswoman Shosh Bedrosian told journalists Tuesday.
That AFP story noted that the ICRC slammed the Hamas staging of a body “recovery”:
“It is unacceptable that a fake recovery was staged, when so much depends on this agreement being upheld and when so many families are still anxiously awaiting news of their loved ones,” the ICRC said.
AFP neglected CAMERA’s request yesterday to amend its partisan ceasefire coverage to refer to “Palestinian attacks and retaliatory Israeli strikes” as opposed to “Israeli strikes and claims of Palestinian attacks,” and to note U.S. and Israeli objections to Hamas’ delayed turnover of bodies.