{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}The Washington Post added an editor’s note after facing intense backlash for misrepresenting the latest escalation between Israel and Hezbollah with a front-page image portraying the Jewish state as the aggressor.
The Iranian-backed terror group in Lebanon launched its deadliest attack on Israel on Saturday since an October 7 attack in the northern Golan Heights town of Majdal Shams, killing at least 12 people and wounding dozens more, all children and teenagers playing on a soccer field.
On Monday’s cover, the Post featured a large image of Israelis mourning the death of 11-year-old Alma Ayman Fakhr al-Din.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}However, under the image, the Post headlined “Israel Strikes Targets in Lebanon,” referring to Israeli retaliatory strikes against Hezbollah that took place on Sunday.
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The Washington Post used the image of an Israeli victim of Saturday’s Hezbollah attack with the headline “Israel hits targets in Lebanon.” (Screenshot/The Washington Post)
The front page quickly went viral, prompting the newspaper’s condemnation: “Democracy dies in darkness.”
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}“The image on the front page of today’s Washington Post is of a child murdered by Hezbollah. Yet the front-page headline – ‘Israel Strikes Targets in Lebanon’ – portrays Israel, not Hezbollah, as the aggressor,” said Rep. Ritchie Torres, D-N.Y., on X.
“It’s sad to see a newspaper that was once the caliber of the Washington Post reduced to this,” John Ashbrook, host of the Ruthless podcast, also wrote on X.
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{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}“If you saw this photo and read the headline, you would naturally think that Israel was responsible for the deaths of 12 innocent Druze children on a soccer field,” said Newsweek contributor Joel M. Petlin.
“Israel is waging a war on two fronts: not against Hamas and Hezbollah, but against terrorists and the biased American media,” Petlin added.
Israeli security forces and medics carry wounded people from the site where a strike from Lebanon landed in the village of Majdal Shams in Israel on July 27, 2024. (JALAA MAREY/AFP via Getty Images)
The newspaper published an editor’s note on Tuesday.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}“The headline and subheadline that accompanied a July 29 Post front-page photo and story about Israeli strikes on Hezbollah targets in Lebanon failed to provide adequate context. The headlines should have emphasized that the Israeli strikes were in response to a rocket attack from Lebanon that killed 12 teenagers and children in the Israeli-controlled Golan Heights. The photo showed one of those victims grieving, as the caption noted,” the Post’s editors wrote.
The Post’s front page even caught the attention of the Israeli military.
“You can see grieving family members burying children murdered by Hezbollah in the Madjal Shams massacre,” the Israeli military wrote on X. “If by any chance you understood something else from their title, you may not be the problem.”
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