Updated: Note to Yahoo! News: Israelis Seeking Shelter are not “Gaza Children”
Nov. 21 Update: Yahoo! News Corrects
What’s wrong with this headline? Hint: That’s Hebrew on the sign, not Arabic.
This shot, according to the caption, is of Israeli children running for shelter during a rocket attack from the Gaza Strip on November 15, 2012 in Nitzan, Israel. So why does the headline and subhead refer only to “Gaza’s children” struggling in the crossfire?
Perhaps it’s too much to ask for Yahoo! News to understand that, unlike Palestinian children suffering in Gaza, the Israeli children are not “caught in the crossfire” but are intentionally targeted by Hamas and Islamic Jihad rockets. But surely it isn’t too much to ask for Yahoo! to put an accurate headline on its photo montage of Israeli and Palestinian children, so that it expresses concern for both Palestinian and Israeli children.
CAMERA has contacted Yahoo! News editors about the issue. We will update you if they correct their partial headline.
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