For the second time since August, CAMERA prompts an AP correction after the wire service falsely reported that Hamas' Ministry of Health most Gaza fatalities are women and children. The English and Spanish corrections appeared in more than 100 media outlets.
Writing in JNS, CAMERA's Tamar Sternthal examines the implications of the fact that AP has twice corrected in the last two months after falsely reporting that the Hamas-run Ministry of Health in Gaza has found most fatalities are women and children.
CAMERA prompts an Associated Press correction of the false claim that Hamas' Ministry of Health in Gaza "says women and children make up most of the dead." In fact, even the Hamas ministry says less than half are women and children. Scores of news outlets republish AP's correction.
Financial Times editors upheld a complaint from CAMERA, and amended an article falsely claiming that “Almost all buildings in Gaza have been destroyed by two years of Israeli bombardment."
Times of Israel deletes an Instagram post which misidentified footage of a pro-Hamas gathering as a protest against the terror organization which rules the coastal enclave.
Reuters corrects after wrongly reporting that Rafah was destroyed and evacuated after the October ceasefire. Still in place is misleading "depopulated" terminology along with the false claim that Rafah is the only crossing point for exiting residents of the Gaza Strip.
CAMERA prompts corrections in two Wall Street Journal articles which erroneously stated that the Rafah crossing has been “closed completely” since March 2024. The crossing was open for medical evacuations in early 2025, after it had been closed since May 2024.
CAMERA prompts a correction of an AP article which cherry-picked a gloomy, disputed and dated figure about the Gaza Strip's food security situation. The news agency's clarification that the IPC figure is older than originally reported reached over 100 news sites across the U.S. and beyond.
CAMERA prompts correction at The Los Angeles Times after the paper briefly resurrected Hamas spokesman Abu Obeida from the dead. A September speech following his August death would have been a truly unprecedented feat. But the truth is more mundane.
On July 27, 2025, David Collier posted about media complicity in the promotion of a libel against Israel that involved a photo of a tragically sick, emaciated Palestinian baby named Mohammed. The photo was originally taken by the Gaza-based photographer Ahmed Jihad Ibrahim Al-arini and uploaded to his Instagram account on July 22 – framed, falsely, as how Gaza was gripped by ‘mass starvation’ due to alleged Israeli restrictions on aid.
