In her February 27 article for CBC News, Producer Yasmine Hassan gives extensive and uncritical coverage to a stridently anti-Israel “humanitarian” group complaining about Gaza, all while failing to provide readers with critical details.

Hassan’s article, “A Canadian helped build a water plant in Gaza. Now he worries about its fate as aid groups leave over new law,” profiles Craig Kenzie, a staffer with Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) currently based in Gaza working at a water treatment plant.

She notes that MSF was about to cease operations in the territory because they had refused to follow Israeli security protocols, quoting Kenzie as telling CBC videographer and anti-Israel propagandist Mohamed El Saife that “we’re highly concerned about the consequences for the Gazan population… when over half the international humanitarian organizations will get expelled from the Gaza Strip.”

While MSF may be concerned, it clearly was not concerned enough to follow security measures, which included sharing the names of its staff with Israel. Though Hassan shared that the group cited their “safety and security of the staff” in failing to do so, she opted to ignore evidence that employees of so-called “humanitarian” groups have also been Palestinian terrorists.

Recently, it came to light that Fadi Al-Waddiya, an employee of MSF in Gaza, and thus a colleague of Kenzie’s, was also a senior operative for Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ). Such cases are precisely the rationale for the security screenings that MSF has refused to follow.

Hassan’s article repeatedly framed Israel as the obstruction of humanitarian aid and development inside Gaza, and quoted another activist, Alexandra Saieh of another group, Save the Children, as claiming that Jerusalem’s security requirements were somehow too onerous to follow.

The close and incestuous relationship between Palestinian terrorists and so-called humanitarian workers in Gaza goes beyond specific cases of individuals who played dual roles.

In early February, Kenzie’s employer, MSF, announced that it was suspending its work inside Nasser hospital, the largest healthcare complex in Gaza, because it had seen armed Palestinian terrorists and even weapons inside.

That admission, coming from a stridently anti-Israel pressure group, remarkably, served as an important corroboration of Israel’s allegations stretching back more than two years. But that was completely ignored in Hassan’s article, which instead largely relied on the feedback of “humanitarian” workers.

This article is far from the first such problematic report from CBC News, which has consistently turned complaints from anti-Israel activists into the basis for extended news.

Just four days earlier, Craig Kenzie was the subject of a glowing report by CBC Radio correspondent Crystal Goomansingh – whose ongoing bias has been a subject of HonestReporting Canada documentation – which overlooked the extended ties between supposedly humanitarian workers in Gaza and Palestinian terrorists.

Additionally, Yasmine Hassan’s reporting over the course of the Hamas-Israel war has repeatedly amplified Palestinian talking points and omitted key facts in her articles.

CBC News must stop providing so-called “humanitarian” groups in Gaza, and their workers, with an uncritical lens, and start treating their views with the challenges that any Israeli voices (in the rare times they are interviewed) are given.