The Israeli struggle in Gaza is nearly 2 years outdated and but there are pockets of American media that insist on reporting as if they’re nonetheless within the throes of the early Israeli response. Particularly, CBS Information which has been essentially the most persistently pro-Hamas of the legacy nightly newscasts.
Take, for, instance, correspondent Debra Patta’s imprecise reporting of this airstrike at the beginning of the report:
JOHN DICKERSON: Now to the plight of the hostages held in Gaza. It has been greater than a 12 months and a half since Hamas invaded Israel and captured them.
MAURICE DuBOIS: As we talked about on the prime of the published, their households are hoping that President Trump’s go to to the Center East will assist get them launched. Debora Patta is in Tel Aviv.
DEBORA PATTA: Trapped within the ruins of Gaza, there are not less than 20 Israeli hostages nonetheless alive being held captive by Hamas. Certainly one of them is Gal Dalal’s brother Man.
GAL DALAL: Each bomb, each navy operation, every little thing happening is placing my brother in danger. His life is in threat.
PATTA: And people bombings intensified this week. This safety digital camera footage reveals the second an Israeli strike hit outdoors a hospital, killing dozens.
Patta makes it appear to be Israel is randomly bombing hospitals. The omission of key particulars is unusual however not unsurprising. From The New York Submit:
The chief of Hamas has been focused in recent Israeli missile strikes on Gaza on Tuesday, the IDF has introduced.
It isn’t clear whether or not he’s useless or alive.
Muhammad Sinwar, the brother of Oct. 7 mastermind Yahya Sinwar, was reportedly the goal of an Israeli airstrike on the European Hospital within the metropolis of Khan Younis within the south of the Gaza Strip, in accordance with Israeli media.
That’s a fairly large omission. Obtrusive, even, and it recasts the complete report.
The story general is about transferring hopes for the discharge of the remaining hostages onto President Trump. In service of that story, the reporter selected to omit the underlying motive for the bombing of the European Hospital- it grew to become a subterranean Hamas command and management module.
Per studies, there have been important Hamas management in that tunnel- constructed with help cash. Amongst these current, the pinnacle of Hamas’s Khan Younis brigade. If they’re confirmed useless, it’s an enormous deal and maybe might speed up the rescue or launch of the remaining hostages.
To omit these key particulars reveals a CBS Information division nonetheless with a mushy spot for Hamas.
Click on “increase” to view the total transcript of the aforementioned report as aired on CBS Night Information on Wednesday, Could 14th, 2025:
JOHN DICKERSON: Now to the plight of the hostages held in Gaza. It has been greater than a 12 months and a half since Hamas invaded Israel and captured them.
MAURICE DuBOIS: As we talked about on the prime of the published, their households are hoping that President Trump’s go to to the Center East will assist get them launched. Debora Patta is in Tel Aviv.
DEBORA PATTA: Trapped within the ruins of Gaza, there are not less than 20 Israeli hostages nonetheless alive being held captive by Hamas. Certainly one of them is Gal Dalal’s brother Man.
GAL DALAL: Each bomb, each navy operation, every little thing happening is placing my brother in danger. His life is in threat.
PATTA: And people bombings intensified this week. This safety digital camera footage reveals the second an Israeli strike hit outdoors a hospital, killing dozens. The assault got here only a day after the discharge of American hostage Edan Alexander.
DALAL: It was joyful. We had been grateful. However we additionally, it was such ache to see one other hostage (unint).
PATTA: The brothers had been on the Nova Music Pageant when Hamas launched its October 7 terror assault. Dalal escaped. His brother didn’t.
DALAL: My brother is in entrance of me. Each time. All day. I fall asleep with him. I get up with him. I can’t really feel the rest purchase guilt on the most straightforward issues.
PATTA: In February, Hamas put out a propaganda video exhibiting his brother.
He was introduced out by Hamas to look at different hostages going house.
DALAL: I used to be helpless solely as a result of I could not do something to assist him, so I simply — I used to be there once more. Watching my child brother, on this inhuman situation, wanting a lot worse.
PATTA: Like so many households, he’s pinning his hopes on the USA to dealer a deal to free the hostages.
DALAL: Though we break typically as a result of we’re human, we additionally hold one another robust, with the hope that Man will return to us.
DICKERSON: Debora Patta in Tel Aviv.
