On March 26, 2026, Dorotea Gucciardo, the Director of Development of Glia Equal Care, a medical solidarity organization that has worked in Gaza, was invited on CBC Radio One in Victoria, British Columbia. She spoke about her experience visiting hospitals in the Gaza strip. During the interview, she described the mass graves she saw near the hospitals:

In May of 2024, I witnessed what it means to have the Israeli army take a hospital out of commission. I visited Nasser Hospital, which is in Khan Yunis in the south of Gaza, a few weeks after the Israeli army had besieged it and withdrawn. And when I walked through, I saw that they had broken all of the equipment, they smashed every single screen, they broke all of the incubators. I mean, incubators are where the sickest babies receive care. Windows, walls, everything was smashed in. They buried Palestinians dead and alive on the hospital grounds. When I was there, they had uncovered three mass graves and were in the process of uncovering another one. And prior to leaving, they set the building on fire. I felt like I was walking through a historical photograph—we're not supposed to see these things today. These are crimes against humanity. (Emphasis added; transcript edited for clarity.)

Following the interview, Honest Reporting Canada (HRC) launched a campaign, condemning CBC for interviewing Ms. Gucciardo and accusing her of making false statements.

HRC complained that Gucciardo spoke about the “non-existent ‘genocide’ in Gaza” without pushback from CBC. However, HRC also challenged Gucciardo’s remarks about Nasser Hospital, calling her remarks “rambling accusations.” 

Despite UN statements and media reports, including by CBC itself, the public broadcaster aired a ‘correction’ regarding Nasser Hospital, claiming that aspects of Dorotea Gucciardo’s comments had “no substance:”

We would like to correct some information shared on the program at this time last Thursday. We were speaking with a representative of Glia Equal Care, a healthcare non-profit that is working in Gaza. During the live interview, the representative claimed the Israel Defense Forces soldiers had created a mass grave at Nasser Hospital in the spring of 2024. Part of the accusation is that some of the people were buried and were buried alive by IDF personnel. Further research by CBC Manitoba revealed there is no substance to this claim. We also contacted the Israel Defense Forces directly. 

They provided this statement by spokesperson Nadav Shoshani:

"Misinformation quote is circulating regarding a mass grave that was discovered at Nasser Hospital in Khan Yunis. The grave in question was dug by Gazans a few months ago. This fact is corroborated by social media documentation uploaded by Gazans at the time of the burial. Any attempt to blame Israel for burying civilians in mass graves is categorically false and a mere example of disinformation campaign aimed at delegitimizing Israel.”

After CBC caved to the HRC campaign, CJPME filed a complaint.

CBC producer Melanie Verhaeghe acknowledged the merits of our complaint, writing that “the wording [CBC] initially used should not have been so conclusive.” CBC published an addendum to their Corrections and Clarifications page that reads:

CBC News corrected a story that aired March 26 with a representative of Glia Equal Care, a health-care non-profit working in Gaza. During the live interview, the representative said Israel Defence Force (IDF) soldiers had buried people alive in mass graves at Nasser hospital in spring 2024. CBC News has not independently verified this claim. Some major non-governmental and humanitarian organizations have called for an investigation, while the IDF says "any attempt to blame Israel for burying civilians in mass graves is categorically false." On-air corrections were broadcast.

While it constitutes another impact by CJPME on the media, from a media accountability perspective, the clarification is incomplete and problematic. 

Continue reading the full impact here.