Israel of luring starving Palestinian children to the aid centres in order to kill them.
On the other side of the pond, the Washington Post ran the unverified, Hamas-based narrative of an Israeli attack on civilians queuing for aid in Gaza before finally, three days later, and after the original false story had already been widely circulated, admitting that the attack "couldn't be verified".
The far more influential New York Times also promoted the proscribed terror group's unsubstantiated claims about a “massacre” at the Gaza aid centre. However, unlike the Washington Post, the US “paper of record” has published no such mea culpa. In fact, as our CAMERA colleague showed, their reports not only failed to walk back their initial coverage, but actually concealed and muddled the Israeli denial in a word salad positioning the IDF statements as a potential confirmation of sorts….
Most remarkably, none of the outlets we mentioned saw fit to report on an IDF video posted on X on Sunday evening appearing to show Palestinian gunmen in Gaza shooting at civilians reportedly going to collect aid, which is illustrative of the fact that reporters in the UK and US ignored or significantly downplayed the possibility that Hamas or other Palestinian gunmen could have been responsible for the shooting of civilians queuing in line for food.
Given that Hamas had, several days before the Sunday incident, denounced the new US-Israeli-backed aid distribution system as an “agent of the occupation”, warning Palestinian civilians who accept its assistance that they “will pay the price, and we will take the necessary measures", one would have expected Western journalists to give at least equal weight to the possibility that the terror group – and not Israel – was the party responsible for the alleged massacre.
Western media coverage of the Gaza aid shootings once again shows that far too many journalists adopt the default position of believing the worst about Israel even when unverified claims come from dubious and/or politically motivated sources – including “local journalists” – and serve Hamas’ propaganda agenda.
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