The US embassy in Israel has issued a statement criticising what it calls “media misinformation” related to Israeli military attacks on Gaza civilians seeking humanitarian relief, Al Jazeera reports.
The statement named The New York Times, CNN and The Associated Press, saying their reporting on Palestinians killed at aid distribution points run by the Israel-US-backed GHF was “false”.
“Drone video and first-hand accounts clearly showed that there were no injuries, no fatalities, no shooting, no chaos,” US Ambassador Mike Huckabee said in the statement.
“We are demanding an immediate retraction of the lies and are appealing to all media sources to act with objective professionalism to cover actual events instead of being a partner of terrorism by blindly following Hamas news releases,” it added.
Dozens of aid seekers have been killed or wounded while trying to get food from GHF distribution points over the past week while Israel maintains a crippling blockade on the bombarded enclave, where a famine looms.