After Israeli soldiers recovered the body of Ran Gvili, the last remaining Israeli hostage inside Gaza – which Hamas was required to return in October, 2025 but never did – the ceasefire deal is now moving onto phase two.

Israel announced that it would be reopening the Rafah crossing which connects Gaza to Egypt, which would provide Gazans the ability to more easily travel between the two locations.

Given that Hamas and other Palestinian terrorist groups continue to operate in much of Gaza, security concerns remain paramount for Israel. However, these details were largely absent in a recent CBC News article, which instead relied almost exclusively on Palestinian accusations.

The January 28 article, “What we know about plans to open the Rafah border crossing this week,” was published by the Associated Press, with files from Kevin Maimann, whose one-sided reporting has been the subject of previous HonestReporting Canada alerts.

The article quotes Alexandra Saieh, head of global strategic influencing and policy with what it called the “aid organization,” Save the Children. Saieh condemned Israel’s plans to have oversight on who enters and leaves through the crossing, calling it “incredibly concerning.”

That Saieh would find such steps – aimed at weeding out Palestinian terrorists from trying to hide among civilians – “incredibly concerning” is of little surprise. Save the Children has spent much of the last two years acting as an aggressively hostile anti-Israel activist group, repeatedly spreading disinformation and demonizing the Jewish State.

The article reports that, over the course of two years of war between Hamas and Israel, “Israeli attacks have devastated the health-care system.”

What was conveniently left out is that “the health care system” was systematically weaponized by Hamas terrorists, who hid weapons, hostages and fighters inside hospitals. They did likewise with schools, apartments and throughout much of Gaza’s civilian infrastructure.

Omitting such details, as CBC News did, presents readers with a warped view that Israel struck Gaza’s “health care system,” seemingly for no reason, when in fact, it targeted Palestinian terrorists and their resources, who were using hospitals as part of their war against Israel.

CBC News further paraphrased Saieh as saying that “she hopes the opening allows for an increase in desperately needed humanitarian assistance…Palestinians have also reported vast shortages of fuel and other essentials.”

The article’s selective reference to what Palestinians have “reported” is telling. It makes no mention of the extensive examples throughout social media showing life in Gaza bearing almost no resemblance to the apocalyptic image presented by news media outlets.

For CBC News and other outlets, Gaza is a destitute wasteland, completely reduced to rubble. But inside Gaza, a very different reality has been shown, where restaurants, cafes, luxury cars and other products are present. This reality has been almost completely hidden from Canadians’ view.

This CBC News article overwhelmingly relies on unfounded claims of aid shortages in Gaza, and complaints about Israeli security protocols, all while erasing the continued deadly threat posed by Palestinian terrorist groups, whose activities are the very reason for those measures.