In his January 23 article for CBC News entitled: “Journalist Motaz Azaiza showed the world what Palestinians endure in war. Now he’s left Gaza,” Vancouver-based Senior Writer Nick Logan profiled Palestinian photojournalist Motaz Azaiza, whose photos of the Gaza Strip have been published around the world.

In his report, Logan presented a one-sided image of the conflict, referring to Gaza as being “besieged,” telling readers about “Israel’s destructive bombardments” and “relentless bombings,” and discussing the “brutal reality in Gaza.”

Yet when it comes to Hamas’ massacre in Israel, the terminology could not be more different, with Logan referring to “the Oct. 7 militant attacks on Israeli communities.”

Logan also delved into allegations that Israel has killed large number of journalists in the Gaza Strip over the last three months of its counter-terrorism operations, writing that “The Committee to Protect Journalists last month accused the Israeli military of “an apparent pattern of targeting of journalists and their families” — which the Israeli government denies.”

Merely stating that the Israeli government “denies” the charges made by The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) hardly constitutes providing readers with both sides.

David Collier, an investigative journalist, recently produced an exhaustive report detailing the identities of 107 individuals killed in Gaza who were listed as journalists by groups like CPJ. He found that scores of them were “openly associated with proscribed terror groups,” and many others died “in strikes on Hamas leadership settings,” as well as one who was killed while at the home of his father, a top commander in Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ), indicating that they were not targeted as innocent civilians.

Logan mentioned “Al Jazeera journalist Hamza Dahdouh, (who) was killed along with another young journalist a week earlier, in the southern Gaza city Khan Younis, when an Israeli airstrike hit the vehicle they were travelling in,” but shared no other pertinent details.

This omission is highly problematic. Israel argued that Dahdouh and the other “young journalist,” Mustafa Thuraya, were the targets of an Israeli air strike because they were traveling in a vehicle alongside an operator of a drone targeting Israeli forces in the area. Jerusalem also produced documentation showing that Dahdouh was working for PIJ in the terror group’s electrical engineering unit.

There is no journalistic rationale for wholly ignoring these Israeli accusations, as Logan has done, instead erasing them entirely. Instead, by failing to mention the context of Dahdouh’s death, or the serious questions raised about the credibility of claims about journalists killed in Gaza, Logan’s article thus implicitly suggests that Israel is, as its critics falsely allege, indiscriminately killing people at best, or deliberately targeting civilians at worst.

At one point in his article, Logan also failed to identify his sources, writing that “More than 25,000 people in Gaza have been killed since (the war began), Palestinian health authorities said.” The only “Palestinian health authorities” in the Gaza Strip is the Gaza Ministry of Health, operated by Hamas, the genocidal Islamic terrorist group.

Hamas, which openly lies about his intentional mass murder of Israeli civilians, claiming that it was all accidental (when video footage shows the exact opposite), does not differentiate between civilians and combatants, nor between those killed by Israeli strikes or by errant Hamas rockets.

According to Israel, 9,000 Hamas combatants have been killed in Gaza, but Logan’s article only repeated Hamas’ claims, not Israel’s, and didn’t even tell readers the true source of the casualty data he provided.

Nick Logan’s report on journalists in Gaza extensively repeated Palestinian claims while downplaying or entirely ignoring any opposing claims by Israel. In our view, this stands in violation of the CBC’s Journalistic Standards and Practices and we have filed a complaint with our public broadcaster.

Take action now by sending a complaint to CBC Editor-In-Chief Brodie Fenlon at: Brodie.Fenlon@cbc.ca.