Reuters captions early this week about the devastation in southern Israel caused by Palestinian "kite terror" ignored the fires' cause. In response to CAMERA's communication, subsequent captions note "Palestinians have been causing blazes by flying kites and balloons loaded with flammable materials."
An Associated Press headline noting that Israel is being blamed for an attack on a Syrian military base is misleadingly accompanied by an image of child victims of an earlier chemical attack, believed to have been carried out by the Syrian regime.
Reuters adds that Palestinian Ahmed al-Remawi was killed "during violent clashes with stone-throwers" after CAMERA protested incomplete captions which stated only that he was "shot and killed by Israeli forces."
CAMERA prompts correction of AFP and Haaretz photo captions that wrongly identified a flag in the hands of a pro-Assad regime fighter in Aleppo. (Updated.)
CAMERA staff have prompted a correction of an online New York Times Magazine photo caption which identified Israel, the West Bank and Gaza as “Palestine.”
Biased captions by AFP and Reuters about Gaza teen Abdulrahman Al-Dabag noted only the Palestinian charge that Israeli troops shot him dead. Thanks to CAMERA, the agencies add that Israel's army said troops used only tear gas.
An AFP correction today, prompted by CAMERA, underscores the media tendency to conflate approximately 600,000 Palestinians who fled or were expelled in 1948 with millions of their descendants.
CiF Watch, a CAMERA affiliate, prompted correction of a Guardian photo caption which had falsely stated that Jewish settlers stormed the Al-Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem.
Four months after Gaza-Israel fighting, media again backtrack on reports which had unequivocally blamed Israel for the death of a Palestinian child. The AP and Washington Post issue corrections on Omar Masharawi. The LA Times does not.