The Media Accountability Project  

The Associate Press has a responsibility to provide accurate, rigorous, contextual, and impartial journalism. This article headline falls short of that standard. I urge you to amend the title to include context around why the building was unstable and naming Israel explicitly as the perpetrator.

"We insist on your reporting being impartial and precise, which is crucial for journalistic work. Having a framing that runs on "Israel says" and "Hamas run" is unfair reporting, especially in the context of a genocidal war in Gaza, where an actor has considerable military and media leverage in its favor on the other."

I encourage CBC to continue to include Palestinian perspectives - beyond just citing Gaza Ministry of Health’s statistics - given that Palestinian voices, perspectives and issues are often sidelined in Canadian mainstream media. 

As has been pointed out previously, Hamas is synonymous with terrorism in CBC’s media framing of this conflict. As such, the addition of the “Hamas-run” or “Hamas-led” qualifier is inherently pejorative in intent. By associating the civilian suffering with Hamas, it effectively diverts sympathy away from those people killed and injured, and helps demonize and dehumanize Palestinians.

D'ailleurs, vous rapportez les bombardements israéliens sur des tentes dans le sud et leurs morts civiles, tout en citant la justification de l'armée israélienne quant à la présence d'une menace du Jihad islamique. 

"By failing to characterize such remarks as racist, or genocidal, and normalizing them as merely inflammatory, CBC fails to inform its viewers of the calculated seriousness of Israel’s genocide in Palestine, its final solution for the Palestinian population it controls."

On August 9, 2026, the Toronto Sun published an article by Ling Hui reporting on the Iran war and developments in Gaza. The article initially stated that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the Israeli military would not withdraw from the “disputed territory” until Hamas was disarmed.

CJPME media advocate Jeff Winch wrote to the Toronto Sun raising concerns about the characterization of Gaza as “disputed territory,” arguing that this innacurate wording implies that Gaza’s territorial status is unresolved and fails to reflect its status as occupied Palestinian territory.

Following CJPME’s complaint, the Toronto Sun amended the sentence. The reference to “disputed territory” was removed.

Altough a partial correction, this change removes the article’s misleading characterization of Gaza as “disputed territory.”

"To adhere to journalistic principles of impartiality and accuracy the article should be corrected to state that Gaza is “undisputed” Palestinian territory."

"Nous voulons attirer votre attention quant à l'absence de mention qu'Israël n'a pas respecté la majorité des concessions de la première phase."