AP and Reuters both routinely report claims from “Gaza’s Health Ministry” without disclosing that Gaza’s “Health Ministry” is run by Hamas. The AP’s Gaza bureau

AP and Reuters both routinely report claims from “Gaza’s Health Ministry” without disclosing that Gaza’s “Health Ministry” is run by Hamas. The AP’s Gaza bureau also shared an office building with Hamas for years and yet AP neglected to disclose this when Israel bombed that building, dishonestly implying that AP themselves were the target. In fact they claimed to have no idea, despite the fact that Hamas would launch rockets just outside their building and occasionally send armed men into their bureau office to threaten them: > When Hamas’s leaders surveyed their assets before this summer’s round of fighting, they knew that among those assets was the international press. The AP staff in Gaza City would witness a rocket launch right beside their office, endangering reporters and other civilians nearby—and the AP wouldn’t report it, not even in AP articles about Israeli claims that Hamas was launching rockets from residential areas. (This happened.) Hamas fighters would burst into the AP’s Gaza bureau and threaten the staff—and the AP wouldn’t report it. (This also happened.) Cameramen waiting outside Shifa Hospital in Gaza City would film the arrival of civilian casualties and then, at a signal from an official, turn off their cameras when wounded and dead fighters came in, helping Hamas maintain the illusion that only civilians were dying. (This too happened; the information comes from multiple sources with firsthand knowledge of these incidents.) > Colford, the AP spokesman, confirmed that armed militants entered the AP’s Gaza office in the early days of the war to complain about a photo showing the location of a rocket launch, though he said that Hamas claimed that the men “did not represent the group.” The AP “does not report many interactions with militias, armies, thugs or governments,” he wrote. “These incidents are part of the challenge of getting out the news—and not themselves news.” (https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2014/11/how-the-media-makes-the-israel-story/383262/ https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2014/11/ho...)