For the entire duration of the Hamas-Israel war, news media outlets have largely treated the Palestinian terrorist-run “Gaza Ministry of Health” as a de facto credible source of casualty data. Additionally, Israeli statements that the United Nations agency UNRWA was incompetent at best and complicit with Hamas at worst, were downplayed or ignored.

But when criticisms of Israeli humanitarian efforts in Gaza are leveled, that receives widespread attention, at least in some corners.

A May 31 article for CBC News entitled: “New Gaza aid distribution backed by Israel, U.S. met with chaos, gunfire in its 1st week,” saw Producer Yasmine Hassan report on the Israeli-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), calling it “controversial” and saying that it “claims it has delivered over two million meals” in its first week, adding that it has “drawn condemnation” by critics.

That reporting, dripping with skepticism towards Israel’s humanitarian efforts, is in stark contrast to how she has covered UNRWA, the discredited United Nations agency with ties to Hamas terrorism, where she ignores calling the organization “controversial,” or mentioning its hateful school curricula or its connections to Palestinian terrorism.

On June 10, Hassan published another article on suffering in Gaza entitled: “This Palestinian boy lost his eye to an unexploded bomb. Thousands of tonnes of explosives may remain in Gaza.” The article was yet another instalment in her nonstop coverage of Palestinian suffering, with Israeli stories notably absent.

The report quoted Hamas as saying that “there could be as much as 6,800 tonnes of unexploded ordnance scattered throughout Gaza.” The implication is that Israel is responsible for all of this, ignoring both the 10,000+ rockets fired from Gaza, and perhaps the biggest elephant in the room of all: that Hamas remains completely culpable for the ongoing war, and could end it instantly if it so desired.

Three days later, Hassan penned an article covering the Madleen, the boat which sailed to Gaza in early June, carrying among its passengers Swedish environmental activist Greta Thunberg. The boat, officially aimed at delivering aid to Gaza, actually carried so little on board that it was derisively nicknamed the “selfie yacht.”

Beyond a passing reference to Israel’s criticism that the boat was a publicity stunt, virtually the entire article was a puff piece for the boat, extensively quoting a participant while offering essentially no criticisms of the Madleen, nor of the unfounded claims of lack of humanitarian aid into Gaza.

On June 19, Hassan published another article, a thinly-veiled publicity piece for the Madleen, reporting that the activists behind the boat “are busy planning their next attempt,” quoting an anti-Israel activist leveling the dangerous “genocide” lie against Israel, and quoting exactly zero opponents of the publicity stunt.

Two days later, she published yet another article on the Madleen – her third in just over a week – profiling Thiago Avila, a Brazilian anti-Israel activist and participant on the boat ride, who complained about the conditions he faced after attempting to force his way into an active warzone.

In the article, Hassan falsely states that “for months now, aid has all but trickled into Gaza.” While “trickled” is a subjective term, it refers to a small flow, which by no reasonable metric could describe the deluge of aid entering Gaza. From the day that aid resumed in Gaza (May 21), until the date her article was published, about 40,000 tonnes of aid entered the territory.

The article also featured a Hamas-provided graph showing “reported Palestinian deaths in Gaza,” which bizarrely depicted a rise in Palestinian deaths, even during the two-month ceasefire, which the caption falsely claimed Israel broke, demonstrating that there is no Hamas-created lie that will not get coverage from some news media outlets.