Dalal Saoud, reporting from Lebanon for United Press International, "opened a support front" — to borrow from her own ambiguous terminology for Hezbollah's unprovoked rocket attacks on Israel — on behalf of the Iranian proxy.
In response to communication from CAMERA, more than two dozen McClatchy newspapers delete a UPI story which falsely stated that Iran's June 7 attack on Israel was the Islamic Republic's first strike on Hezbollah's behalf.
The Guardian upheld our complaint, and corrected the opening sentence of an article falsely claiming that Israel "invaded" Lebanon in 2023, while erasing Hezbollah entirely.
CAMERA prompts improved coverage at both ABC and Reuters after the two media outlets erased Hezbollah attacks against Israel, falsely blaming Israel — as opposed to Hezbollah — for dragging Lebanon into war.
CAMERA told NPR editors that, contrary to their headline, both Israel and the Lebanese citizens heard from in the segment refer to Israeli strikes on Hezbollah, not strikes "targeting civilians."
AP's initial misreporting downplayed Hezbollah attacks targeting Israeli civilians and also obscured Hezbollah losses. Hundreds of thousands of Israelis sought shelter from Hezbollah attacks, not thousands. Previous Hezbollah barrages did not mainly aim at military targets. And Hezbollah lost 16 top members -- not just one -- in Friday's Beirut strike.
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.
After initially burying Iran's reported presence in the Kafar Sousah neighborhood, Times of Israel gives more prominent coverage to the area's security and intelligence installations.
CAMERA prompts correction of a Los Angeles Times article which greatly overstated the number of Lebanese civilians killed in the 2006 war, erroneously citing "nearly 1,200 Lebanese civilians." In fact, this figure includes hundreds of Hezbollah fighters.
