Numerous media outlets, including Fox News, CNN, and The Washington Post, pushed a lie last week that Israel had indiscriminately fired upon Gazan civilians seeking aid and killed more than 30 of them. The whole story was a complete hoax, and the Post has grudgingly admitted the error, yet the original article, with its horrible accusations against Israel, remains on the outlet’s website with only an editor’s note and a softened headline.
Days after its original post accusing Israel of killing 31 civilians, the Post stated on X that it had removed the original post and confessed:
Correction: We’ve deleted the post below because it and early versions of the article didn’t meet Post fairness standards. The background: Early versions of the article on Sunday stated that Israeli troops had killed more than 30 people near a U.S. aid site in Gaza, with the headline attributing the action to “health officials.” The article failed to make clear if attributing the deaths to Israel was the position of the Gaza health ministry or a fact verified by The Post. The article and headline were updated on Sunday evening making it clear that there was no consensus about who was responsible for the shootings and that there was a dispute over that question. While statements from Israel that it was unaware of injuries and that an initial inquiry indicated its soldiers didn’t fire at civilians near the site were included in all versions, The Post didn’t give proper weight to Israel’s denial and gave improper certitude about what was known about any Israeli role in the shootings. The early versions fell short of Post standards of fairness and should not have been published in that form
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) Jun 2, 2025
Because it’s totally natural to trust a mass-murdering terrorist group like Hamas — as the Post did — over Israel, isn’t it?
Israeli diplomat Tal Naim bashed the Post, “Another day, another quiet correction. The damage is done — but hey, at least @washingtonpost rewrote the headline after it spread across the globe. In times of war, the media’s first responsibility is accuracy. Lives depend on it.”
How many people read the fake news on the Post and other websites before ever reading the correction—or never reading it?
As a matter of fact, consistent with Hamas’s years of using its own people as human shields, a Gazan resident told the Israel Defense Forces that it was Hamas that recently attacked civilians seeking aid.
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— Israel Foreign Ministry (@IsraelMFA) June 5, 2025
A Gazan testifies to an @IDF officer about Hamas’ attempts to obstruct the distribution of humanitarian aid to Gaza residents earlier this week on Sunday:
"The people who fired were Hamas terrorists. They don’t want the people to receive aid, they want to foil the… pic.twitter.com/vibnapuadW
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The Post still promotes its “updated” story. But the article on the website remains almost entirely in its original form. The main change is that at the very bottom of the piece, there is an admission of error in small print. The rest of the article is still shamelessly anti-Israel. The headline was made a little more vague — “More than 30 killed by gunfire near U.S. aid site in Gaza” — but the opening still cites the Hamas-run “Health Ministry” to accuse Israel:
More than 170 were wounded as they headed to an aid point, the Gaza Health Ministry said. Israel’s military said troops had “acted to prevent several suspects from approaching.”
The article goes on to acknowledge Israel’s much more trustworthy report of the situation, and yet still promotes individuals claiming Israel killed civilians deliberately:
While three witnesses said the gunfire came from Israeli military positions, the Israel Defense Forces denied the allegations… The Washington Post interviewed three eyewitnesses to the shootings, as well three doctors who attended to the casualties and family members of the wounded. One witness, 43-year-old Mohammed al-Gharib, a local journalist, said he was a little over 100 yards from the gunfire when it erupted early Sunday. He said that it came from Israeli forces in the area and that he witnessed a quadcopter flying overhead before he escaped.
“Journalist” al-Gharib is part of an entity affiliated with and endorsed by the United Nations, which actively hires and helps Hamas terrorists. The group outrageously accused Israel of “genocide” (actually, Israel will even endanger its own men to avoid killing Jihad-loving Gazan civilians — whereas Hamas happily kills its own people when it deems necessary). So you can imagine how trustworthy he is.
Then comes more Israel-bashing. Despite the fact that Israel has helped deliver countless meals to the people there, the Post’s article still contains the false accusation: “Israel has blocked almost all deliveries of food, water and humanitarian aid to Gaza since March 2, pushing parts of the enclave to the verge of famine… Every major humanitarian group working in Gaza has been sounding alarm bells over the hunger crisis there for more than a year.”
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First of all, even if Israel had blocked all aid, that would be perfectly justifiable because this is war, and no reasonable person would expect a nation to feed its enemies. But second, as I said, it is simply untrue. Israel has been trying to facilitate aid into Gaza, but Hamas has been stealing as much as possible. Hamas doesn’t make political capital off well-fed citizens; it makes political capital off starving ones.
Ultimately, you have to scroll to the very end of the somewhat lengthy article to find the update, meaning the majority of people who read the story will simply continue to read the false accusations:
Previous versions of this article on Sunday stated that Israeli troops had killed more than 30 people near a U.S. aid site, with the headline attributing the action to “health officials.” The article failed to make clear if attributing the deaths to Israel was the position of the Gaza health ministry or a fact verified by The Post. The article and headline were updated on Sunday evening and for the print edition on Monday making it clear that there was no consensus about who was responsible for the shooting and that there was a dispute over that question. While statements from Israel that it was unaware of injuries and that an initial inquiry indicated its soldiers didn’t fire at civilians near the site were included in all versions of the article, The Post didn’t give proper weight to Israel’s denial and gave improper certitude about what was known about any Israeli role in the shootings. The early versions fell short of Washington Post standards of fairness and should not have been published in that form.
The Post has no standards of fairness, and the fact that its correction is at the very bottom of the piece in small print shows just how disinterested they are in truly correcting the record on a story which has helped fuel hatred and violence against Israelis and Jews worldwide. In fact, just around the time this story came out, an Egyptian illegal alien attacked pro-Israel demonstrators in Boulder, Colorado, with Molotov cocktails.
The Washington Compost might as well be an official mouthpiece for the jihadis in Gaza, because it is always determined to take Hamas’s word for any situation, and even when it has to admit error, it does so grudgingly and as quietly and ungraciously as possible.
