On Fox’s Outnumbered, Marie Harf Errs on Settlements and Beyond
As anyone with a passing familiarity with the region knows, there have been no Israeli settlements in Gaza since 2005.
Lost in Translation: AFP Misleads That Gaza Crossing Closed, Fuel Deliveries Halted
In Arabic and French, AFP rightly reports that the Kerem Shalom crossing was reopened over a week ago and fuel deliveries to Gaza resumed following a three-week closure. The English report, in contrast, misleadingly reports only that crossing was closed last month, ignoring its subsequent reopening.
AP Grossly Understates Number of Arson Balloons
In recent weeks, Palestinian arsonists have launched dozens of incendiary balloons every single day; not dozens over the last few weeks, as an AP photo caption erroneously stated.
Sderot Home, Hit in Palestinian Rocket Attack, Erased by Reuters
In a report about 12 rockets fired at southern Israel from the Gaza Strip Aug. 21 overnight, Reuters neglects to mention that a home in Sderot was hit and suffered heavy damage. The article noted only that "buildings and vehicles" in Sderot were hit.
Independent Arabia Ends Practice of Calling Gaza Area Israeli Communities “Settlements”
After extended communication with CAMERA Arabic, Independent Arabia decides to end its practice of erroneously referring to Israeli communities near the Gaza Strip as "settlements."
AFP Reports Without Clarification False Claim That Israel Destroyed All Greenhouses
AFP abandons its "duty to seek the truth and not passively report information as it is presented to us" when it reports without challenge or clarification the false claim that Israel's army destroyed all of Neve Dekalim's hothouses before the 2005 disengagement.
AP Captions Err After Sderot Home Hit by Iron Dome Shrapnel
UPDATE: Associated Press corrects after captions erroneously reported that a Sderot home was hit by a rocket fired by Palestinians in the Gaza Strip. In fact, Israel's Iron Dome intercepted the rockets, and it was shrapnel from the interception which damaged the house.
VOA Deletes Video Which Grossly Inflated Number of Struggling Refugees in Gaza
In response to communication from CAMERA, Voice of America deletes a video which grossly overstated the number of refugees in the Gaza Strip suffering from poverty and unemployment. The June 12 VOA Extremism Watch video cited five million refugees facing these difficulties, more than double the territory's entire population.
AP Corrects After Calling Gaza ‘World’s Largest Muslim Nation’
CAMERA prompts correction of a series of Associated Press photo captions which absurdly misidentified the Gaza Strip as the "world's largest Muslim nation." With less than 2 million Muslims, the tiny territory is home to a tiny percentage of the world's 1.7 billion Muslims. Even Germany's Muslim population is more than double Gaza's.
AP Obscures Gaza Withdrawal
The Associated Press conceals that Israel has fully withdrawn from the Gaza Strip, writing that Palestinians "seek" the territory as part of their future state and ignoring the withdrawal of every soldier and citizen from the territory, now in Hamas hands.