Tamar Sternthal January 15, 2025 and still they are underground.
"Hamas has buried the hostages deep in its terror tunnels. And biased journalism further entrenches their erasure."
"There’s more than one way to erase the hostages held by Hamas and other terror groups in the Gaza Strip.
"There are the angry self-righteous mobs across the United States, Europe and beyond who ripped down posters of the 251 kidnapped children, elderly, women and men. (As of this writing, 94 of the Oct. 7 hostages are still in Gaza, and the Israeli military has confirmed 34 of them are dead.)
"Then there are the more genteel journalistic erasures which exact far greater and lasting damage than the bombastic street displays.
The more genteel journalistic erasures exact far greater and lasting damage than the bombastic street displays.
"In October 2023, The Los Angeles Times erased half of those then known to be hostages, underreporting: “Hamas militants attacked southern Israel on Oct. 7, killing more than 1,400 Israelis and taking at least 100 hostages into Gaza.” By that time, Israel had already contacted the loved ones of 203 individuals to notify them that their kin were being held by terrorists in the Gaza Strip. (The paper later issued a stealth correction due to the intervention of media watch organization CAMERA.)
"Last month, after the 251 figure was already known for many long months, a Canton Repository (Ohio) article republished in some two dozen USA Today Network newspapers across North America conjured up an even lower figure than The Los Angeles Times. It misreported that Hamas members “attacked and killed more than 1,100 Israelis, and kidnapped dozens of others including Americans, who still are missing.”
"In recent weeks, Variety devoted two flattering reviews to Michael Moore’s anti-Israel propaganda film “From Ground Zero” about the Gaza Strip, without sparing one word for the Oct. 7 massacre or the nearly 100 hostages still held by Hamas and other terror groups after 15 months." . . . More here...
Tamar Sternthal is director of the Israel office of Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting and Analysis.
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