CBC News’ Natasha Fatah Conducts Fawning Interview With Representative From ‘Save The Children’ Who Demonizes Israel’s Aid Efforts in Gaza

Save the Children is a multi-billion dollar non-governmental organization which boasts that it is a “global leader” in providing humanitarian assistance to those in need, and has been regularly treated with total reverence in the Canadian news media, particularly on CBC News.

The group is also a stridently activist organization which has long taken a hardline anti-Israel line, and its spokespeople are often given sympathetic interviews which fail to challenge them on their outlandish statements.

In a July 6 interview with CBC News, Rachael Cummings, a humanitarian director for the group, spoke with host Natasha Fatah. Cummings was a guest on CBC’s program only two months prior. The topic was once again accusations leveled against the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), an Israeli-backed aid group, with critics repeating Hamas claims of deaths near the aid distribution points.

Watch the full segment below:

Cummings said that Gazans are “risk(ing) their lives for a bag of flour” and presented an apocalyptic image of the sites, though GHF shares daily images showing an entirely different story that remains completely ignored on CBC News.

Despite Cummings alleging total chaos, millions of meals are being distributed in Gaza daily, a massive detail that Fatah apparently found no reason to mention.

Rather than challenge Cummings’ allegations, Fatah instead threw softball and leading questions, asking “was the same thing happening when you and other established aid organizations were distributing aid? Were hundreds of people dying?”


To the surprise of nobody, Cummings praised her group, saying it and others are “very experienced, we have decades of experience.”

What remained remarkably absent was why the GHF was created at all, precisely because of the widespread theft of aid by Hamas terrorists that was taking place under the nose of these so-called “experienced” aid organizations. This stolen aid, in turn, was resold on the black market and then used to help fund Hamas’ ongoing war against Israel. Yet another fundamental detail that CBC News’ Fatah failed to mention.

As some observers have noted, allegations that hundreds of Gazans have been killed at humanitarian aid sites remains extremely contested, and most claims come from a very small group of individuals, including a Hamas operative named Mahmoud Basel.

That doesn’t mean there isn’t violence, but that violence is being ignored. Two aid workers were injured after Hamas terrorists threw a grenade filled with ball bearings at them, and the group has placed bounties on American aid workers, according to a United States cable, and reported by an American news outlet.

These omissions by Natasha Fatah are not inconsequential; they fundamentally change the entire story. From the violence against GHF aid workers by Palestinian terrorists to the theft of aid under the previous “experienced” groups by Hamas, to the huge amount of aid entering Gaza now, to the unsubstantiated nature of claims leveled by groups like Save the Children, viewers were left completely in the dark with yet another one-sided fawning interview from CBC News.

Rather than telling Canadians about the gross incompetence from aid agencies that necessitated the creation of the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, CBC News has presented yet another sympathetic interview with a representative from one of those very same groups, all while failing to hold them accountable for anything they said, and censoring out any voice that would dare disagree.

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