The Washington Post retracted a story Tuesday that repeated fake news, disseminated by Hamas, claiming that Israeli troops had opened fire on Palestinians seeking food from an American-run aid site in Gaza.
As Breitbart News noted, many mainstream media outlets simply ran claims by Hamas, which is seeking to discredit the ongoing aid effort by the Trump administration-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF).
The GHF effort circumvents the United Nations (UN) and hence Hamas, which relies on stealing UN aid shipments to resupply its terrorists and to profit by forcing desperate Palestinians to pay for “free” aid.
After GHF and the Israeli military both denied that any such shooting took place, U.S. Ambassador Mike Huckabee demanded that mainstream media outlets retract their false reporting about the alleged incident.
The Post responded by taking down a post on X and correcting an article that included the false claims:
Correction: We’ve deleted the post below because it and early versions of the article didn’t meet Post fairness standards.
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) June 3, 2025
The background: Early versions of the article on Sunday stated that Israeli troops had killed more than 30 people near a U.S. aid site in Gaza, with the… pic.twitter.com/KseRXgJn6A
The Jerusalem Post commented: “Although the original article included statements from Israel, including an initial inquiry indicating IDF soldiers did not fire at civilians at the aid centers, the newspaper admitted it didn’t “give proper weight to Israel’s denial and gave improper certitude about what was known about any Israeli role in the shootings.”
Huckabee linked fake news about Israeli atrocities to terror attacks against Jews.
Joel B. Pollak is Senior Editor-at-Large at Breitbart News and the host of Breitbart News Sunday on Sirius XM Patriot on Sunday evenings from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. ET (4 p.m. to 7 p.m. PT). He is the author of Trump 2.0: The Most Dramatic ‘First 100 Days’ in Presidential History, available for Amazon Kindle. He is also the author of The Trumpian Virtues: The Lessons and Legacy of Donald Trump’s Presidency, now available on Audible. He is a winner of the 2018 Robert Novak Journalism Alumni Fellowship. Follow him on Twitter at @joelpollak.
