Washington Post admits to faulty reporting on claim that Israel killed dozens of Gazan civilians at aid site
The Washington Post admitted Tuesday that a claim in its recent report that Israeli soldiers killed dozens of civilians in Gaza could not be verified.The outlet shared a post on X stating it had updated its Sunday article to reflect that it could not verify that Israeli troops killed around 30 civilians near a US aid site in Gaza.The previous version of the piece reported that the Israeli military had committed the killings.“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,” the outlet’s social media post read.At least 26 Palestinians were reportedly killed and some 175 were wounded over the weekend as they made their way to receive food in the Gaza Strip, according to officials from the Hamas-run health ministry and witnesses.Witnesses said Israeli forces fired on crowds around 1,000 yards away from an aid site run by the Israeli-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF).
A Palestinian journalist told the BBC that thousands of Palestinians had gathered near the aid site near Gaza’s southern city of Rafah when Israeli tanks approached and opened fire on the crowd.However, the IDF has disputed these allegations, saying they are “currently unaware of injuries caused by IDF fire within the Humanitarian Aid distribution site,” adding that “the matter is still under review.”“It is false and fabricated.All aid was distributed today without incident,” the GHF said.
“No injuries or fatalities as noted in our daily update sent out earlier.We have heard that these fake reports have been actively fomented by Hamas.
They are untrue and fabricated.”However, as an editor’s note in the updated Washington Post piece said, The Post had reported on Sunday 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 f...