The Media Accountability Project  

Your article provides eight instances of Israeli denials of violations, giving a platform to an accused criminal state to defend itself at great length. Meanwhile, it provides little detail on the extensive evidence of war crimes and the "catastrophic conditions" that led the UN's top court to issue its ruling.

It was irresponsible to quote Mr. Rustad’s accusatory statement without providing the additional context for readers.

CBC ought to extensively cover these new developments and make every effort to update past stories that simply parroted the narrative put forward by Israel as a pretext to break the ceasefire agreement and kill more Palestinians in Gaza.

This passage omits important key context. Students in Canada and all across North America organized encampments to demand that their universities divest from weapons manufacturers and companies complicit in Israel’s genocide. These are the same companies that produce parts for F-35 fighter jets used in the bombardment of Palestinians in Gaza. This context is critical for readers to understand why encampments happened in the first place.

To so crudely question the well-documented famine and the Palestinian death count is cruel, offensive, and shoddy. If one is to raise such serious allegations, that virtually the entire international human rights community is conspiring to invent false claims about Israel’s genocide, a journalist ought to investigate the questions meaningfully, not only cite baseless Israeli government and military denials.

Overall, this was a great example of how Canadian media should approach Palestine coverage by presenting expert and contextualized analysis that challenges dominant narratives, illuminates the realities of Palestinians through the use of international law and human rights.

References to Israel’s “divine decree” must therefore be contextualized with a Palestinian perspective: that such claims are used to justify the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians and the expansion of illegal Jewish settlements.

"However, the use of “capturing” rather than “occupying” risks misleading readers into thinking that Israel has a legitimate claim to the Palestinian territories. Palestinians are the indigenous people of Palestine, and media outlets should not be complicit in normalizing Israel’s illegal colonization through misleading language."

This wording is inaccurate and dehumanizing. The Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) analysis released on August 22, 2025, makes clear that over half a million Palestinians in Gaza are experiencing famine. To describe this as occurring in “parts of Gaza” erases both the scale of the famine and the Palestinian identity.

"Irresponsibly, the article then platforms Israel’s denial of its own actions, without providing essential context, in stating "Israel disputes the hunger fatality figures given by Gaza's Health Ministry, arguing that deaths were due to other medical causes." It is both unfair and inaccurate not to also mention that famine has been officially declared in Gaza, and there is ample evidence that people with underlying medical causes are the most susceptible to malnutrition and therefore among the first to die in a famine."