The New York Times is finally admitting that it relied too heavily on Gazan reporting (AKA Hamas) while reporting on the Gaza hospital explosion that occurred last week.
NYT originally reported that Israel was responsible and 500 Gazans were dead. The truth: the bomb came from Islamic Jihadists and 15-20 people may have died in the explosion.
NYT issued an editors’ note…
“The Times’s initial accounts attributed the claim of Israeli responsibility to Palestinian officials, and noted that the Israeli military said it was investigating the blast,” the editors’ note said.
“However, the early versions of the coverage — and the prominence it received in a headline, news alert and social media channels — relied too heavily on claims by Hamas, and did not make clear that those claims could not immediately be verified.”
Times editors further acknowledged that “the report left readers with an incorrect impression about what was known and how credible the account was.”
From The New York Post:
While they claim Times reporters were quick to edit the story on the website as Israeli officials denied striking the hospital, “Given the sensitive nature of the news during a widening conflict and the prominent promotion it received, Times editors should have taken more care with the initial presentation and been more explicit about what information could be verified.
The initial Times report claimed 500 people were killed in the attack, citing Hamas officials, and included a picture of a wrecked building that was not actually the Al-Ahli Hospital.
Israeli officials have vehemently denied responsibility for the explosion at the Al-Ahli Hospital last week, and have even released audio files of Hamas officials admitting that the blast was caused by a Palestinian Islamic Jihad projectile that fell into Gaza.
They also provided images showing that the parking lot where the blast occurred did not have a crater in the ground, and no structural damage was dealt to nearby buildings — both of which typically would have been left by an Israeli Defense Forces strike.
The Biden administration has backed Israel’s claims, saying the Jewish nation is “not responsible” for the deadly attack.
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— New York Post (@nypost) October 23, 2023
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