Many of the same outlets have obsessed over the spread of “misinformation” in recent years yet created their own by parroting Hamas during a war the terror group savagely provoked with Israel.

The journalistic fiasco was an example of the media’s tendency to adopt the Palestinians’ narrative about the conflict with Israel, even when that narrative is unsupported by the facts. In this case, there were geopolitical consequences: U.S. Democratic lawmakers and Arab leaders condemned Israel for the bombing, Jordan canceled a planned summit with Biden, and riots broke out in the West Bank and elsewhere in the Muslim world.

Immediately after the hospital blast, which occurred around 7:30 p.m. local time, outlets reported that Israel had bombed the facility, killing hundreds of Palestinians. The reports generally referred to their source—the Hamas terrorist group that governs Gaza—as “Palestinian officials” or “health authorities.”

[This is yet another example of the Fourth Estate acting as a Fifth Column. Every single news outlet knows that Hamas and Islamic Jihad rockets have a significant failure rate, usually in the 30-40% range, and that the failures end up hitting Gaza rather than Israel. They also know that Hamas routinely churns out propaganda accusing Israelis of hoax atrocities. And yet almost every single one of them just accepted Hamas’ version of events — and then demanded proof from Israel to refute the claim when Hamas provided no proof at all of the death count or the Israeli involvement. Shameful and shameless anti-Semitism. — Ed]