In yesterday’s Israel Daily News Stream, I noted an AP dispatch (subsequently updated) reporting the first Palestinian fatality attributed to the Gaza crisis.
A five-month old baby, said the wire service, died when the generator running Mohammed Helou’s respirator, ran out of fuel.
Who wouldn’t be moved by such a tragedy?
Turns out the story was based on a lie. AP issued this retraction (via our colleagues at CAMERA) explaining:
The timing and reason for the death were confirmed to the AP by a man identified as the baby’s father and a Gaza health official, but the report has been called into question after it was learned that a local newspaper carried news of the baby’s death on March 4.
In a subsequent followup, AP called Hamas onto the carpet:
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by Pesach Benson