AFP captions accompanying a dozen portraits of Mariam Dawwas report without challenge the mother's claim that the 9-year-old "had no known illness." Independent journalist David Collier outperforms the "leading global news agency," revealing the malnourished girl suffers from intestinal malabsorption.
If the data shows that getting food into Gaza isn’t the problem, then what is? While its policies on aid delivery are open to fair criticism, attempts to portray Israel as solely at fault for hunger in Gaza conflict with reality and do little to actually remedy the situation.
BBC framed a “major escalation” without noting Hamas’s military presence or its fifty hostages. That omission hides the key fact: Palestinian misery could end if Hamas freed them.
For nearly two years, Haaretz has amplified the false claim that Israel is “starving” Gaza, relying on a long-time anti-Israel activist and misleading images of sick children whose conditions had nothing to do with hunger. UN data and multiple expert reviews have repeatedly shown no famine exists. Yet the campaign continues.
In issuing praise for Anas al-Sharif, entities like CNN and the Foreign Press Association have unwittingly exposed something about themselves: that they see nothing wrong with feeding the world an image of events in Gaza curated by a known Hamas propagandist.
Most British media ignored IDF evidence that Anas Al-Sharif, a Hamas commander operating under the guise of an Al Jazeera reporter, was the head of a terrorist cell responsible for rocket attacks. Instead, outlets largely described him as a “journalist,” omitting the long-documented overlap between Hamas operatives and Gaza-based reporters.
An ITV News video report on Gaza by international editor Emma Murphy erased Hamas from the story, framing the destruction solely as “the war that Israel is waging here.” Viewers were not told about Hamas’s use of civilian buildings for military purposes, its booby-trapping of structures, or the Oct. 7 massacre that started the war.
There are no good answers to the predicament Israel faces. The government’s decision is ripe for criticism, but so too would be any other decision. Responsible journalists must not ignore the morally and factually challenging circumstances Israel faces by glossing over competing considerations at play.
Reuters corrects after citing B'Tselem's grossly inflated figure for Israeli domestic water usage. But its article still ignores Israeli data indicating that double the amount of water recommended for daily use in emergency situations is available in the Gaza Strip.
Palestinian singer Rola Azar, featured on BBC Arabic’s 'Art for Life,' has a history of antisemitic incitement and support for Hamas terrorism. A CAMERA Arabic investigation highlights how the BBC omitted extremist lyrics and uncritically platformed her, continuing a troubling pattern.
