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The British media body, which on the day of the attack on the hospital in Gaza presented the claim of Hamas, published a correction • "This does not represent our coverage", they said in their message • The CNN network investigated and determined: "The explosion - did not result from an Israeli attack"

Citing propaganda proved painful for the Gray Lady as an uncommon step was taken to amend for pushing claims from terrorists. Debunked reports about Israel’s responsibility for an explosion at a hospital may not have stood in the way of Michigan Rep. Rashida Tlaib’s (D) continued screeds, but it was problematic for the editors at The New York Times. As a result, nearly a week after backpedaling headlines brought further shame on the once exemplary paper of record, a rare stand-alone editors’ note was published as a mea culpa. “The Times’s initial accounts attributed the claim of Israeli responsibility to...

“Times editors should have taken more care with the initial presentation” of the Oct. 17 Al-Ahli Arab Hospital explosion in Gaza City — caused by a misfired rocket aimed at Israel — the marquee newspaper said in a statement.The New York Times has said it was wrong to “heavily” rely on claims by the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas that Israel was to blame for the Oct. 17 Al-Ahli Arab Hospital explosion, without first verifying those claims. “The Times’ initial accounts attributed the claim of Israeli responsibility to Palestinian officials, and noted that the Israeli military said it was investigating the...

As RedState reported, one of the biggest press failures in modern history occurred surrounding the "bombing" of the Al-Ahli Baptist Hospital in Gaza. As darkness fell over the strip on October 17th, an explosion occurred somewhere on the hospital grounds. Around a half-an-hour later, reports from The New York Times, CNN, MSNBC, NBC News, The Washington Post, and among many others painted a grim picture of a demolished facility and at least 500 dead. Their source? "Palestinian health authorities." Advertisement None of them stopped to ask any questions, including how the Hamas-controlled Gaza Health Ministry could have possibly produced an...

On Oct. 17, The Times published news of an explosion at a hospital in Gaza City, leading its coverage with claims by Hamas government officials that an Israeli airstrike was the cause and that hundreds of people were dead or injured. The report included a large headline at the top of The Times’s website. Israel subsequently denied being at fault and blamed an errant rocket launch by the Palestinian faction group Islamic Jihad, which has in turn denied responsibility. American and other international officials have said their evidence indicates that the rocket came from Palestinian fighter positions. The Times’s initial...