{"id":2081540,"date":"2023-10-27T14:58:01","date_gmt":"2023-10-27T18:58:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-media-know-hamas-is-lying-but-they-report-the-lies-anyway\/"},"modified":"2023-10-27T15:04:23","modified_gmt":"2023-10-27T19:04:23","slug":"the-media-know-hamas-is-lying-but-they-report-the-lies-anyway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-media-know-hamas-is-lying-but-they-report-the-lies-anyway\/","title":{"rendered":"Media aware of Hamas lies, yet still report them."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fthe-media-know-hamas-is-lying-but-they-report-the-lies-anyway%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2081540&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><section id=\"article\">\n<article data-post-title=\"The Media Know Hamas Is Lying. But They Report the Lies Anyway.\" data-post-slug=\"http:\/\/watch-hamas-official-flees-interview-when-asked-about-massacre-of-civilians\" data-post-url id=\"print-1817019\">\n<div>\n<figure><figcaption>\n<h2>Hamas terrorists (Getty Images)<\/h2>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Even after top news outlets admitted that the Gazan Health Ministry duped them into reporting falsehoods, \u2064those same media \u2062have continued to put the Hamas-controlled agency&#8217;s dubious \u2063claims about Palestinian deaths at the center of their reporting.<\/p>\n<p>The result has \u200cbeen that Hamas\u2014a baby-murdering <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/why-this-average-american-is-voting-for-donald-trump\/\" title=\"Why This Average American Is Voting for Donald Trump\">terrorist group<\/a> with a long record of lying\u2063 to the media\u2014has been allowed to shape the story of its ongoing war with Israel. Never mind that\u200d Hamas started the war by\u200c committing the <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/national-security\/just-as-cruel-as-the-terrorists-many-ordinary-palestinians-joined-in-hamass-atrocities-against-israel\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">deadliest pogrom<\/a> against Jews since the Holocaust.<\/p>\n<p>Analyses by journalists\u200b and Western governments <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/media\/media-struggle-with-evidence-that-hamas-is-a-bunch-of-anti-semitic-baby-killing-rapists\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">determined<\/a> that the Health Ministry wrongly accused Israel \u200cof bombing a Gazan hospital on Oct. 17 and inflated the death toll by\u2062 as much as five times. In reality, a Hamas-affiliated\u200b terrorist group was\u200c likely responsible. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/10\/23\/pageoneplus\/editors-note-gaza-hospital-coverage.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>New York Times<\/em><\/a>  was among those who this week\u200b acknowledged they were \u200dmistaken to have uncritically regurgitated the agency&#8217;s claims.<\/p>\n<p>During previous conflicts with Israel, some in the mainstream media similarly realized\u200d that the Health Ministry\u2062 was misleading them, including by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usnews.com\/opinion\/articles\/2014\/08\/12\/hamas-lies-about-the-gaza-civilian-death-toll-and-the-media-bought-it\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">counting<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/hamas-israel-gaza-protests-2018-5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">dead terrorists<\/a> as civilians and attributing deaths to the Jewish state that were\u200d likely due to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.i24news.tv\/en\/news\/international\/175568-180525-baby-killed-amid-border-clashes-removed-from-death-toll-by-gaza-health-ministry\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">different factors<\/a>\u2014like the <a href=\"https:\/\/besacenter.org\/how-many-gaza-palestinians-were-killed-by-hamas-rockets-in-may-an-estimate\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">terrorist group<\/a> \u2062 itself.<\/p>\n<blockquote data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><strong>FYI Gaza Health Ministry is a propaganda \u2062machine. It\u2019s known a \u200bbullshit generator. But people forget. \u2063So here\u2019s a reminder.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Links: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/LAKYoMYWsK\">https:\/\/t.co\/LAKYoMYWsK<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/xiefcsWOQ0\">https:\/\/t.co\/xiefcsWOQ0<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/QfQF7uB6d3\">pic.twitter.com\/QfQF7uB6d3<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Marina Medvin \ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8\u2063 (@MarinaMedvin) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MarinaMedvin\/status\/1711128557873668314?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October\u200d 8, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><strong>Whoa: a Palestinian rights group says eight of the Palestinian casualties\u2062 from the past 48 hours, including two children\u2014aged 16 and 5\u2014were \u2063killed by a \u2062Palestinian\u2064 rocket that fell short, not Israeli airstrikes.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>How many more \u200dcases like this may\u200c there \u200bbe?<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/LxsIDdb6Pi\">https:\/\/t.co\/LxsIDdb6Pi<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014\u2063 Avi Mayer \u05d0\u05d1\u05d9 \u05de\u05d0\u05d9\u05e8 (@AviMayer) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AviMayer\/status\/1392460739479224321?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 12,\u2064 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Former Reuters Jerusalem bureau chief Luke Baker \u2062recently pointed to a new reason not \u200bto trust the Health Ministry.<\/p>\n<blockquote data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><strong>And were professional\u2063 about it. But Hamas has now \u200cbeen\u200b in charge in Gaza for 16 years. It has squeezed the life out of honesty and \u200dprobity. Any health official stepping out of\u200b line \u200cand not giving the death tolls that Hamas wants \u200creported to\u200d journalists risks serious consequences<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Luke Baker (@BakerLuke) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BakerLuke\/status\/1716806155316658548?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 24, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>But the Health Ministry&#8217;s lies \u200chave apparently \u200cbeen \u2063forgiven or forgotten. The media have carried on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-middle-east-67204951\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">prominently<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2023\/10\/26\/1208680784\/death-toll-in-gaza-approaches-7-000-as-aid-groups-raise-alarm-about-fuel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">citing<\/a> the agency&#8217;s reported death \u2062tolls, which still include\u200b hundreds of dubious deaths from the hospital \u200bbombing.<\/p>\n<blockquote data-conversation=\"none\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\"><strong>Health officials in Gaza say that the death toll has risen to 5,791 people, just a day after it had surpassed 5,000.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>More than 2,300 of the deaths were children, the officials say. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ysK3aSDZHO\">https:\/\/t.co\/ysK3aSDZHO<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 NBC News (@NBCNews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NBCNews\/status\/1716802080642396471?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 24, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><strong>The Israeli \u2064military said on Tuesday it escalated\u200d airstrikes \u2062in Gaza overnight. Over 700 people were killed, the highest single-day\u2064 death toll of the war, the Hamas-run Gaza Health Ministry said. \u200cIt was \u200cnot possible \u200dto independently \u200bverify the toll. \u2062 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/YKelkQh6XF\">https:\/\/t.co\/YKelkQh6XF<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/eXSNCNUWlC\">pic.twitter.com\/eXSNCNUWlC<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 The New York Times (@nytimes) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nytimes\/status\/1716926302949879966?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 24, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><strong>In the last 24 hours, at least 436 people have been killed in Gaza,\u200b according\u200b to the Gaza Health Authority, \u2064which is run by Hamas.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Gaza death\u200c toll has now\u2064 climbed to 5,087\u200c since Hamas&#8217; Oct. 7 \u2062attack on Israel, according to the \u200bPalestinian Health\u200b Authority.<\/p>\n<p>The latest on the\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/XOGr8TsfdA\">pic.twitter.com\/XOGr8TsfdA<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 ABC News (@ABC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ABC\/status\/1716496814147342758?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 23, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><strong>Large\u200d explosions hit \u200cGaza as Israel pummeled the enclave. Gaza&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hungary-takes-lead-as-europe-prepares-to-begin-covid-19-vaccinations\/\" title=\"Hungary takes lead as Europe prepares to begin COVID-19 vaccinations\">health ministry<\/a> said 266 Palestinians, including 117 children, have been killed by Israeli air strikes in the past 24 hours. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/1wc8TC9OSs\">pic.twitter.com\/1wc8TC9OSs<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Reuters\u2062 (@Reuters) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Reuters\/status\/1716157470257852690?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October \u200c22, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>While the <em>Times<\/em> has taken to caveating\u200b its reporting of \u200cthe Health Ministry&#8217;s figures, other outlets \u200chave gone so far\u2063 as to defend the agency as reliable.<\/p>\n<div data-qa=\"article-body\">\n<p dir=\"null\" data-testid=\"drop-cap-letter\" data-el=\"text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/israel-hamas-war-gaza-health-ministry-health-death-toll-59470820308b31f1faf73c703400b033\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Associated Press<\/a>, Oct. 26: &#8220;What Is Gaza\u2019s Ministry of Health and How Does It Calculate the War\u2019s Death Toll?&#8221;:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Gaza\u2019s most widely quoted source on casualties is Health\u2062 Ministry spokesperson Ashraf \u200cal-Qidra. From an office at Shifa Hospital \u2064in Gaza City, al-Qidra receives a constant flow of data from every hospital in the strip.<\/p>\n<p>Hospital administrators say\u200d they keep records of \u2064every wounded person occupying a bed \u200dand every dead body arriving\u2064 at a morgue.\u200d They enter this data into a computerized system \u2063shared with al-Qidra and colleagues.\u2063 According to screenshots hospital directors sent to \u2064AP, the \u200csystem looks like a color-coded spreadsheet divided into categories:\u2062 name, ID number, date of hospital entry, type of injury, condition.<\/p>\n<p>Names aren\u2019t always available,\u2062 al-Qidra said. He and colleagues face disruptions because of spotty connectivity but say they call to double-check the numbers.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p dir=\"null\" data-testid=\"drop-cap-letter\" data-el=\"text\"><em><a href=\"https:\/\/time.com\/6328885\/gaza-death-toll-explainer\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">TIME<\/a><\/em>, Oct. \u200c26: &#8220;Biden Cast Doubt on Gaza\u2019s Death Toll. Palestinian Officials \u200bResponded With 6,747 Names&#8221;:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p dir=\"null\" data-testid=\"drop-cap-letter\" data-el=\"text\">Although Gaza has been under \u200cHamas\u2019 rule since \u20622007, this is the first time that the reliability of the enclave\u2019s\u2062 health ministry has\u200c been so prominently called into question. News outlets\u2063 and international organizations and \u2062agencies have long relied on Israeli and Palestinian government \u2063sources for casualty \u2062figures. While they do \u2063so partly \u2062because they \u200bare unable\u2062 to independently verify these figures themselves,\u200c it\u2019s also\u200b because these statistics have proven accurate in the past. &#8230;<\/p>\n<p dir=\"null\" data-testid=\"drop-cap-letter\" data-el=\"text\">While keeping track of the numbers of dead and\u200d wounded\u200d may seem like a \u200bparticularly arduous task amid the\u2062 latest bombardment, which has seen thousands of buildings destroyed and more than 1 million of Gaza&#8217;s 2.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ilhan-omar-i-hope-compassion-for-ukrainians-leads-to-changes-for-yemen-syria-afghanistan-iraq-children\/\" title=\"Ilhan Omar: I Hope Compassion for Ukrainians Leads to Changes for Yemen, Syria, Afghanistan, Iraq Children\">2 million people displaced<\/a>, there is a process by which Palestinians track their casualties.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p dir=\"null\" data-testid=\"drop-cap-letter\" data-el=\"text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2023\/10\/24\/gaza-death-toll-palestinian-health-ministry\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Washington Post<\/em><\/a>, Oct. 26: &#8220;Why News Outlets and the UN Rely on \u2063Gaza\u2019s Health Ministry for Death Tolls&#8221;:<\/p>\n<div data-qa=\"article-body\">\n<blockquote>\n<p dir=\"null\" data-testid=\"drop-cap-letter\" data-el=\"text\">Many experts consider figures provided\u2062 by the ministry reliable, given its access, sources, and accuracy\u200d in past statements.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote><\/div>\n<div data-qa=\"article-body\">\n<blockquote>\n<p dir=\"null\" data-testid=\"drop-cap-letter\" data-el=\"text\">&#8220;Everyone uses the figures from the\u200c Gaza Health Ministry because those are generally \u2062proven to be reliable,&#8221; said Omar\u200b Shakir, Israel and Palestine director at Human Rights Watch. &#8220;In the times in which we have done our own verification of numbers for particular strikes, I\u2019m not aware of any time which there\u2019s been\u2062 some major discrepancy.&#8221; &#8230;<\/p>\n<p dir=\"null\" data-testid=\"drop-cap-letter\" data-el=\"text\">Hamas received support in the 2006 elections in\u2063 part by promising better social services, and some\u200d analysts say the group has improved certain areas of access.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote><\/div>\n<p dir=\"null\" data-testid=\"drop-cap-letter\" data-el=\"text\">The\u2063 media&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/idreesali114\/status\/1717914124099698860\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">assurances<\/a> that the United Nations relies on Hamas&#8217;s \u200cdeath counts do not necessarily inspire\u2063 confidence.<\/p>\n<blockquote data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><strong>The Disgrace of\u2064 the United Nations \u200bon Israel: Secretary-General Ant\u00f3nio Guterres is\u200d sending the message to the world\u2019s rogues that\u200b if you go on a killing spree, the U.N.\u200d will \u2062help justify your actions. \u2066<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WSJ?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@WSJ<\/a>\u2069  <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/oBlTS8t1bg\">https:\/\/t.co\/oBlTS8t1bg<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u2014\u2063 Miranda Devine (@mirandadevine) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mirandadevine\/status\/1717606107814982130?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 26, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/section>\n<p> <\/p>\n<h2> \u2062What steps \u2064should \u2064news outlets take to\u2063 ensure \u2062accurate and unbiased \u200creporting when covering conflicts involving Hamas\u200d and Israel?<\/h2>\n<p><span>  The false claims and inflated numbers. This raises serious questions about \u200bthe media&#8217;s integrity and their willingness to\u200b report the truth.<\/p>\n<p>It is no\u2062 secret\u2062 that Hamas has\u2064 a long history of manipulating the media\u200d to further \u2063their \u200cown \u200cagenda. They have\u200c been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-media-know-hamas-is-lying-but-they-report-the-lies-anyway\/\" title=\"Media aware of Hamas lies, yet still report them.\">caught numerous times spreading false information<\/a> and \u2064using civilian casualties \u2064as propaganda tools. Yet, despite\u200c this knowledge, the media continues to give them\u2062 a platform \u2063and amplify their lies.<\/p>\n<p>One\u2062 recent \u200cexample of this is the incident where the Health Ministry wrongly accused \u200bIsrael of bombing a \u200bGazan hospital. Several\u2063 news outlets, including the New York Times, uncritically reported this claim, only \u200cto later acknowledge their \u200bmistake. This incident highlights\u200c the media&#8217;s failure \u200cto fact-check and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fbi-raid-appears-to-be-political-retaliation-against-giuliani-trump-basham\/\" title=\"FBI Raid Appears to Be \u2018Political Retaliation\u2019 Against Giuliani, Trump: Basham\">verify information<\/a> before reporting\u2063 it.<\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, it is not just the Health\u200c Ministry&#8217;s \u2063false claims that have been\u200c reported by the media.\u200c In previous conflicts with Israel, the media\u2063 has been comp<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hamas terrorists (Getty Images) deceived top news outlets, who now persist in featuring the dubious claims of the Hamas-controlled Gazan Health Ministry regarding Palestinian deaths. Despite acknowledging the deception, these media sources continue to prioritize Hamas&#8217; false narratives. This grants legitimacy to a notorious terrorist group known for murdering innocent babies and their extensive history of violence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":309,"featured_media":2081541,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[544],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2081540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-free-beacon"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2081540","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/309"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2081540"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2081540\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2081541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2081540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2081540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2081540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}