The CBS Evening News seized upon the opportunity to rekindle its passion for blatantly anti-Israel reporting by regurgitating an Amnesty International report blaming the United States and Israel for a “genocide” in Gaza. They managed to do so while blatantly omitting one word: Hamas.
Watch the report in its entirety, as aired on the CBS Evening News on Thursday, December 5th, 2024:
NORAH O’DONNELL: Tonight, Israel and the U.S. are pushing back on new accusations of a genocide in Gaza. Amnesty International made the case in a scathing report. The world’s largest human life group claims Israel is weaponizing military aid by preventing deliveries of supplies. CBS’s Debora Patta reports on one woman’s struggle to find food in a war zone.
DEBORA PATTA: Each morning, Jamalat Wadi heads out in search of food for her family of 13. This is what her life is like every day now. Angry crowds fighting for a precious lifeline. Bread. It’s like gold. And almost as expensive, at $10 a bag up from just $1 before the war.
“We need to eat, we are exhausted,” pleaded Wadi, “stop this war and let the aid in.” Once again, she returns to her makeshift tent empty-handed. On this night, all they have is a single bowl of lentils to share. The youngest eat first. In the north, Israel has allowed virtually no aid in for two months, turning down 82 of the 91 delivery requests made by the U.N. And in the south, there’s a trickle getting in, but it’s nowhere near enough. Hunger has spread everywhere. Here, a sea of kids jostle outside a soup kitchen, all starving. Everyone has to pitch in. 11-year-old Zeina Juha’s task was to wake up at dawn and come to this bakery to try and get bread for her family. One day, she did not come home.
Young Zeina had been crushed and trampled to death in a crowd like this one. “Why did she have to die in such an ugly way?” Her mother Karima said. “She was covered in bruises, red and blue all over.”
“The world looks at us and Palestinians and all they see are terrorists,” her father Ahmed said. “We are not terrorists. We just want to survive.” He will never forgive himself for not being able to protect his daughter. Debora Patta, CBS News, East Jerusalem.
Is there anything that might have happened that caused these conditions to deteriorate in Gaza? Might there have been a specific group of actors that have made it difficult for Gazans to access aid in the first place?
Even the Associated Press, while covering the same denunciations from Amnesty International and in an item as biased as the CBS report, found the time to identify the parties most responsible for what is happening in Gaza:
It blames the lack of humanitarian aid on United Nations agencies, accusing them of not delivering hundreds of truckloads of aid that have been allowed in. The U.N. says it is often too dangerous to retrieve and deliver the aid. It blames Israel as the occupying power for the breakdown of law and order — which has enabled armed groups to steal aid convoys — while also accusing it of heavily restricting movement within the territory.
The war began when Hamas-led militants stormed into southern Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, killing some 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and taking around 250 hostages, including children and older adults. Some 100 captives are still held inside Gaza, at least a third of whom are believed to be dead.
CBS News managed to run an entire item on the dire conditions in Gaza without ever mentioning Hamas’s medieval and yes, genocidal October 7th attack against Israel. There is no mention of Hamas’s insistence on embedding itself into Gazan civilian infrastructure. There is also no mention of Iran’s role in funding and arming Hamas.
The CBS item mentions neither UNRWA nor its Hamas-collaborationist employees. Likewise, the item never mentions the incessant raiding of trucks bearing critical relief supplies by, you guessed it, Hamas.
This is what passes for journalism at CBS News- terror apologia disguised as “news”.