CAMERA BLOG
AP Improves Coverage on Palestinian Fatalities in Gaza, Balata
May 22, 2023

CAMERA’s Israel office today prompted improved Associated Press coverage on Palestinian fighters killed earlier this month in the Gaza Strip, along with three more combatants killed early this morning in the West Bank’s Balata refugee camp. Regarding today’s fatalities near Nablus, in both the headline and the lead, AP buried the fact [in the 12th paragraph] that the three were confirmed members of the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigade, a fact which the designated terror organization itself confirmed. The uninformative headline, “3 Palestinians killed in Israeli raid in occupied West Bank; U.S. slams latest settlement expansion,” fails to give any indication of the fact that those killed were combatants belonging to a designated terror organization. READ MORE