The Media Accountability Project  

"This narrative framing is a long-time tactic used by the Israeli military to control the narrative surrounding attacks against Palestinians and Palestinian land. Your use of Israeli quotes further helps this tactic."

"To claim that the military raid on the Jenin refugee camp was a response to recent attacks on Israeli settlers is highly reductive and misleading. The most recent attacks on Israeli settlers followed a recent deadly raid on the Jenin refugee camp. To ignore or to choose not to mention the reasons why Palestinians may resort to violence obscures the reality of Israel’s military occupation."

"Corroborative statements from multiple reputed international bodies also lend legitimacy to the narrative that Palestinians living in the West Bank are victims of a brutal, decades-long military occupation. For this reason, it was inappropriate to include the claim that “Israel ensures that humanitarian assistance is provided and does not apply any limitation on access for medical staff” in your article, when it has been shown that not only is the Israeli military failing to ensure the provision of such assistance, but is instead actively hampering its delivery."

"While I understand that these segments must be kept brief, and that even the AP is using the language of “hunting” militants, it is nonetheless an alarming and defamatory statement from the Canadian Press. Such a description is also highly misleading, as Israel has launched a large-scale invasion of a Palestinian refugee camp and has already killed and injured numerous civilians. During the last raid on Jenin, Israeli forces killed Sadeel Turkman, a 15-year-old Palestinian child who was shot in the head by an Israeli Sniper. Sadeel is just one of many who have either been killed or badly wounded, with some being in critical condition."

"First of all, I am flabbergasted at the choice of the title to the article, which it seems aims to emphasize the attack by a Palestinian individual which wounded 8 Israeli civilians, whereas at least 10 Palestinians have been killed by the Israeli military in the Jenin refugee camp."

"The segment repeatedly quoted or paraphrased the Israeli perspective on its invasion, which allegedly was about counter-terrorism. The segment reinforced this view by showing multiple videos sourced from the Israeli army. However, the segment did not provide an adequate analysis of the event from the perspective of Palestinians, who have called it a “massacre,” and included very little footage from the Palestinian perspective of the attack, despite the widespread availability of such videos. The overall effect of this imbalance was to justify and rationalize Israeli violence."

"You claim that Israeli airstrikes have been "halted" over the past two decades. It is true that the Israeli military has not carried out many airstrikes in the West Bank in the past two decades, but this obscures the fact that just two weeks ago the Israeli military launched a drone strike against targets in the West Bank. Your statement is therefore misleading."

"I would like to bring your attention primarily to the use of the word “operation” when mentioning the Israeli military’s actions. This is a large-scale military assault on a refugee camp filled with thousands of civilians; the use of the word “operation” can allude to many different things."

"Thank  you especially for highlighting Sadeel’s classmates’ grief at her funeral and your effort to humanize this child and her family by letting  her father tell us about his daughter’s life in Jenin Refugee Camp.  In doing so Sadeel becomes not just a statistic, as Palestinian deaths are so often reported."

"When mentioning the Jenin refugee camp, we must remember that it is exactly that; a “refugee camp”. The people living there are refugees who have been displaced from their homes and have been under periodic attacks by the Israeli military. The “militants” you mentioned are actually refugees defending themselves from the Israeli military invasions which have indiscriminately targeted men, women and children."