The Kibbutz of Kfar Aza has been in the news as many media organisations have reported on the aftermath of the Hamas attack. The BBC described in detail how Israeli soldiers spent an entire day “in the ruins recovering bodies of civilians”. Reuters quoted an Israeli reserve soldier who said: “Waves of the attackers, armed with Kalashnikov rifles, rocket-propelled grenades and hand grenades, stormed the village...”. The New York Times, meanwhile, pieced together a video put out by eye-witnesses in Sderot that shows indiscriminate firing upon civilians waiting at a bus stop or on the roads.
Sadly, while bringing to us the grisly visuals of the massacre, news organisations have thrown caution out the window and added fake news to what is already a tense situation.
