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Reuters Carpet Bombs the Truth with Biased Reporting Against Israel

An Israeli flag flies in Lebanon, near the Israel-Lebanon border, following the ceasefire between Israel and Iran-backed Hezbollah, as seen from Metula, northern Israel, Dec. 3, 2024. Photo: REUTERS/Stoyan Nenov
Is Reuters carpet bombing its vaunted Trust Principles that promise news consumers “integrity, independence and freedom from bias”?
Indeed, in recent coverage of Israel’s war against both Hamas and Hezbollah, Reuters journalists launched multiple strikes against the media outlet’s stated commitment to “unbiased and reliable news.”
For example, in their Nov. 28 article, Reuters’ Laila Basam, Tom Perry, and Maya Gebeily falsely referenced Israel’s “carpet bombing of Beirut’s southern suburbs” (“Still counting its dead, Hezbollah faces long road to recover from war“).
Carpet bombing refers to a campaign which “seeks to destroy every part of a wide area.” If Israel had carpet-bombed Beirut’s southern suburbs, the entire area would be destroyed and fatalities would have reached the tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands.
But as previous Reuters coverage indicates, Israeli attacks on Beirut’s southern suburbs were highly focused, targeting specific buildings, and not the entire area.
Reuters reported on Oct. 1, for instance, that a single high-rise building was hit in one such attack:
Israel carried out two attacks on Beirut on Tuesday afternoon, striking the southern suburbs of the Lebanese capital and the city’s southern entrance, two security sources said.
A high-rise building was hit in the city’s Jnah area, the sources said.
The Israeli military said it was targeting the Lebanese capital and had carried out a “precise strike.”
Likewise, on Nov. 23, Reuters reported on Israeli attacks against Hezbollah targets, as opposed to total annihilation of the suburbs: “The Israeli air force also struck Hezbollah targets in the southern suburbs of Beirut, the group’s stronghold, the Israeli military said.”
Similarly, Reuters reporting on Nov. 13 referred to Israel warning civilians to evacuate and then striking specific Hezbollah targets in the area, a focused attack not even remotely resembling the flattening of the entire area:
The Israeli military pounded Beirut’s southern suburbs with airstrikes on Tuesday, mounting one of its heaviest daytime attacks yet on the Hezbollah-controlled area, and struck the middle of the country where more than 20 people were killed.
Smoke billowed over Beirut as around a dozen strikes hit the southern suburbs starting in midmorning. After posting warnings to civilians on social media, the Israeli military said it struck Hezbollah targets in Beirut’s Dahiyeh area and later said it dismantled most of the group’s weapons and missile facilities.
If Israel had carpet-bombed the southern suburbs of Beirut, there would be nothing left there aside from rubble.
But Reuters’ own photographic coverage demonstrates that this is clearly not the case.
The Nov. 24 Reuters image below shows that the vast majority of buildings are completely intact.
Five hours of CGTN Europe Nov. 26 footage of the view overlooking Beirut’s southern suburbs before the ceasefire went into effect also shows attacks against specific buildings, and not wholesale destruction of the entire residential area.
While CAMERA informed Reuters editors about the egregiously fallacious claim days ago, the media outlet has yet to correct. With one billion global news consumers exposed to Reuters daily, the media outlet’s civilian casualties — those on the receiving end of its false “carpet bombing” libel — are widespread.
Reuters also subjects its readers to unfounded mayhem and confusion, obscuring the actual outlines of the Hezbollah-Israel ceasefire agreement.
The ceasefire agreement is perfectly clear that Hezbollah is to be disarmed and is forbidden to deploy south of the Litani River. It also states explicitly that Israel has up to 60 days to withdraw its forces from Lebanon. Nevertheless, in a recent article, “With Israeli tanks on the ground, Lebanese unable to bury dead,” Hamuda Hassan and Ahmed Fahmy concealed these keys points of the deal.
Instead, in their abbreviated characterization of the ceasefire, they say only that the agreement “stipulated an end to fighting so residents on both sides of the border could return home.” Further, in describing the alleged hardships Lebanese say they face upon return to their villages in the south, the reporters falsely imply that Israel’s current presence in southern Lebanon is a violation of the deal:
The ordeal highlights the bitterness and confusion for residents of southern Lebanon who have been unable to return home because Israeli troops are still present on Lebanese territory.
Israel’s military has issued orders to residents of 60 southern towns not to return home, saying they are prohibited from accessing their hometowns until further notice.
The U.S.-brokered ceasefire deal grants both Lebanon and Israel the right to self-defence, but does not include provisions on a buffer zone or restrictions for residents.
Given that Israel’s military presence in southern Lebanon is permitted for nearly two more months, the smoke and mirrors reference to a lack of provisions on buffer zone and restrictions falsely implies that Israel is in violation of the agreement. That fabrication is the underlying narrative of the entire article.
Reuters’ sustained assault on unbiased and reliable news extends southwards from Lebanon to the Gaza Strip. In his article this week, Nidal al-Mughrabi reports dubious and notoriously unreliable Hamas-supplied fatality statistics as fact, without any attribution: “Israel’s military campaign has killed more than 44,400 Palestinians, injured many others, and reduced much of the enclave to rubble” (“Israel kills 14 people in northern Gaza, orders evacuation in south“).
When it comes to Israel’s verified Oct. 7 victims, in contrast, al-Mughrabi fastidiously attributes the information, as if the data cannot be independently confirmed:
Israel launched its campaign in the densely populated Palestinian enclave after Hamas-led fighters attacked Israeli communities on Oct. 7, 2023, killing 1,200 people and capturing more than 250 hostages, according to Israeli tallies.
Reuters took another shot at its unbiased news promise when it dropped key information from its Nov. 30 headline: “Israel says it killed Oct. 7 attack suspect who worked for US-based charity.”
By the next day, the updated version of the same story, carrying the same url as the original article, contained less — not more — information, stating: “Israeli airstrikes on Gaza killed two aid workers.” How does the headline’s omission of the aid workers’ alleged participation in Hamas’ Oct. 7 attacks against Israel serve Reuters’ Trust Principles?
In contrast, the Associated Press’ headline clearly notes Israel’s information that the targeted Gazan participated in the Oct. 7 massacre: “Israeli strike in Gaza kills World Central Kitchen workers. Israel says 1 was an Oct. 7 attacker.”
News providers face a challenge, wrote chairman of Thomson Reuters Founders Share Company Kim Williams in 2018. “[T]hey must earn the confidence of their clients through convincing efforts to strengthen credibility.” A convincing initial effort towards strengthening credibility would be to forthrightly correct the absurd carpet bombing libel.
As for recovery of trust, integrity and freedom from bias, cessation of scorched-earth journalistic skewing in favor of Hamas and Hezbollah is a good place to start.
Tamar Sternthal is the director of CAMERA’s Israel Office. A version of this article previously appeared on the CAMERA website.
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Israel Says Missile Launched by Yemen’s Houthis ‘Most Likely’ Intercepted

Houthi leader Abdul-Malik al-Houthi addresses followers via a video link at the al-Shaab Mosque, formerly al-Saleh Mosque, in Sanaa, Yemen, Feb. 6, 2024. Photo: REUTERS/Khaled Abdullah
The Israeli army said on Saturday that a missile fired from Yemen towards Israeli territory had been “most likely successfully intercepted,” while Yemen’s Houthi forces claimed responsibility for the launch.
Israel has threatened Yemen’s Iran-aligned Houthi movement – which has been attacking Israel in what it says is solidarity with Gaza – with a naval and air blockade if its attacks on Israel persist.
The Houthi military spokesperson Yahya Saree said the group was responsible for Saturday’s attack, adding that it fired a missile towards the southern Israeli city of Beersheba.
Since the start of Israel’s war in Gaza in October 2023, the Houthis, who control most of Yemen, have been firing at Israel and at shipping in the Red Sea, disrupting global trade.
Most of the dozens of missiles and drones they have launched have been intercepted or fallen short. Israel has carried out a series of retaliatory strikes.
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Iran Holds Funeral for Commanders and Scientists Killed in War with Israel

People attend the funeral procession of Iranian military commanders, nuclear scientists and others killed in Israeli strikes, in Tehran, Iran, June 28, 2025. Photo: Majid Asgaripour/WANA (West Asia News Agency) via REUTERS
Large crowds of mourners dressed in black lined streets in Iran’s capital Tehran as the country held a funeral on Saturday for top military commanders, nuclear scientists and some of the civilians killed during this month’s aerial war with Israel.
At least 16 scientists and 10 senior commanders were among those mourned at the funeral, according to state media, including armed forces chief Major General Mohammad Bagheri, Revolutionary Guards commander General Hossein Salami, and Guards Aerospace Force chief General Amir Ali Hajizadeh.
Their coffins were driven into Tehran’s Azadi Square adorned with their photos and national flags, as crowds waved flags and some reached out to touch the caskets and throw rose petals onto them. State-run Press TV showed an image of ballistic missiles on display.
Mass prayers were later held in the square.
State TV said the funeral, dubbed the “procession of the Martyrs of Power,” was held for a total of 60 people killed in the war, including four women and four children.
In attendance were President Masoud Pezeshkian and other senior figures including Ali Shamkhani, who was seriously wounded during the conflict and is an adviser to Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, as well as Khamenei’s son Mojtaba.
“Today, Iranians, through heroic resistance against two regimes armed with nuclear weapons, protected their honor and dignity, and look to the future prouder, more dignified, and more resolute than ever,” Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi, who also attended the funeral, said in a Telegram post.
There was no immediate statement from Khamenei, who has not appeared publicly since the conflict began. In past funerals, he led prayers over the coffins of senior commanders ahead of public ceremonies broadcast on state television.
Israel launched the air war on June 13, attacking Iranian nuclear facilities and killing top military commanders as well as civilians in the worst blow to the Islamic Republic since the 1980s war with Iraq.
Iran retaliated with barrages of missiles on Israeli military sites, infrastructure and cities. The United States entered the war on June 22 with strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities.
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Israel, the only Middle Eastern country widely believed to have nuclear weapons, said it aimed to prevent Tehran from developing its own nuclear weapons.
Iran denies having a nuclear weapons program. The U.N. nuclear watchdog has said it has “no credible indication” of an active, coordinated weapons program in Iran.
Bagheri, Salami and Hajizadeh were killed on June 13, the first day of the war. Bagheri was being buried at the Behesht Zahra cemetery outside Tehran mid-afternoon on Saturday. Salami and Hajizadeh were due to be buried on Sunday.
US President Donald Trump said on Friday that he would consider bombing Iran again, while Khamenei, who has appeared in two pre-recorded video messages since the start of the war, has said Iran would respond to any future US attack by striking US military bases in the Middle East.
A senior Israeli military official said on Friday that Israel had delivered a “major blow” to Iran’s nuclear project. On Saturday, Iran’s Revolutionary Guards said in a statement that Israel and the US “failed to achieve their stated objectives” in the war.
According to Iranian health ministry figures, 610 people were killed on the Iranian side in the war before a ceasefire went into effect on Tuesday. More than 4,700 were injured.
Activist news agency HRANA put the number of killed at 974, including 387 civilians.
Israel’s health ministry said 28 were killed in Israel and 3,238 injured.
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Pro-Palestinian Rapper Leads ‘Death to the IDF’ Chant at English Music festival

Revellers dance as Avril Lavigne performs on the Other Stage during the Glastonbury Festival at Worthy Farm, in Pilton, Somerset, Britain, June 30, 2024. Photo: REUTERS/Dylan Martinez
i24 News – Chants of “death to the IDF” were heard during the English Glastonbury music festival on Saturday ahead of the appearance of the pro-Palestinian Irish rappers Kneecap.
One half of punk duo based Bob Vylan (who both use aliases to protect their privacy) shouted out during a section of their show “Death to the IDF” – the Israeli military. Videos posted on X (formerly Twitter) show the crowd responding to and repeating the cheer.
This comes after officials had petitioned the music festival to drop the band. The rap duo also expressed support for the following act, Kneecap, who the BCC refused to show live after one of its members, Liam Óg Ó hAnnaidh – better known by stage name Mo Chara – was charged with a terror offense.
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