Hamas and other Palestinian terror groups situated throughout Gaza, along with their willing accomplices, have no qualms spreading bold falsehoods and deliberate libels in the goals of maligning Israel.

Aided and abetted by a pliant media who give a platform to these libels without conducting due diligence and verification, Israel’s reputation is tarnished and political warfare is waged to incapacitate Israel’s military efforts on the ground.

Recently, in a January 10 report by Crystal Goomansingh on Global National, the program insinuated that an Israeli air strike targeted and struck a Palestinian ambulance killing 4 innocent Palestinian medics.

Ms. Goomansingh reported the following: “Sorrow, with no end in sight. The Palestinian Red Crescent Society says an Israeli air strike hit one of its ambulances in central Gaza, killing four staff members. ‘A direct target means we won’t be able to save the lives of the wounded.’ Israel’s closest ally, the United States, had just urged them to do more to protect civilian lives in Gaza.”

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Global showed footage of the carnage, of the destroyed ambulance and of grieving Palestinians.

Importantly, and as reported by Agence France Presse (AFP) on January 11, Israel strenuously denies that it struck this ambulance.

AFP’s report said: “The Israeli military on Thursday denied it was behind the bombing of an ambulance in the central Gaza Strip a day earlier which killed four medics and two other people.” A review was conducted based on the details provided to the IDF (Israeli military) which shows that no strike was carried out in the described area,” the army said in a statement to AFP.”

In the face of these serious allegations which have not been substantiated, Global did not feature a comment from an Israeli representative to deny these egregious charges.

HRC has previously taken Global National’s Europe Bureau Chief, Crystal Goomansingh, to task. On October 24, Goomansingh conducted an interview with Ghazi Hamed, a spokesperson for Hamas, who denied his terrorist group ever targeted Israeli civilians during its October 7 massacre in southern Israel, despite extensive evidence showing otherwise. Despite Hamas’ long record of inhumanity and grotesque murders, Goomansingh did not challenge a single claim made by Hamed.
 
Importantly, Israel does not target ambulances and it’s vital to note that, for the record, Palestinian terrorists have used ambulances to transport combatants and weapons.

In our view, Global’s January 10 report which insinuated that an Israeli air strike targeted an ambulance and killed four innocent civilians, without any supporting evidence and only a claim made by The Palestinian Red Crescent Society, this Global report was in material breach of its own journalistic principles and practices.

Global contends it’s “… primary directive is to report accurate, balanced, timely and comprehensive news and information in the public interest,” and that its journalists “remain professionally detached and fair, balanced and complete when reporting the news so as not to influence the outcome of events.”

In our view, Global National must broadcast a statement that prominently features Israel’s denial of responsibility for this attack which depicted the Israel Defense Forces’ as having targeted an ambulance, a protected vehicle in the law of armed conflict, killing four Palestinian innocents.

HonestReporting Canada has filed an official complaint with the Canadian Broadcast Standards Council (CBSC) calling for immediate corrective action and we encourage you to also file complaints with Global National.