Israel Defense Forces

8/1/2009

Toronto Star: November 21, 2011: Amendment: Star unpublishes an inflammatory allegation from its website by a letter writer who claimed that that Israel commits “ongoing acts of terror” and that Toronto Star columnist Rabbi Mamur’s children “now serve” this “very military”. After HonestReporting contacted the Star to challenge these baseless assertions, the Star commendibly removed these claims from the letter writers missive.
Belleville Intelligencer: July 6, 2011: Correction: "A story in the July 5 edition of The Intelligencer "No passage out of Crete" contained a error. The Turkish Freedom Flotilla, which set sail for Gaza in May last year, proposing to deliver humanitarian aid, ended with nine people on the ship dying as Israeli commandos intercepted the small fleet. The Intelligencer regrets the error."

Toronto Star, Apr 25 2010: “Palestinian doctor spreads message of life, death and peace”. Report falsely claimed that an Israeli army attack which resulted in the death of Palestinian doctor Izzeldin Abuelaish’s family members was “deliberate”. Clarification issued: “An April 18 article about Dr. Izzeldin Abuelaish, whose three daughters and a niece were killed in January 2009 when a pair of Israeli shells ripped through his Gaza apartment, referred to that attack as “apparently deliberate.” The article did not intend to suggest that the Israeli Defense Forces deliberately targeted civilians in this attack, but only that the Israeli tank shells were fired on purpose and hit the building they were aimed at.”

Edmonton Journal, November 23 2009: “Israeli airstrikes wound 8 medics”: Report incorrectly stated that Israeli airstrikes wounded 8 medics. Correction issued: “A correction published Nov. 25 incorrectly said eight Palestinians were killed in Israeli airstrikes earlier that week. In fact, eight Palestinians were wounded in the airstrikes, as noted in the original story that appeared on Nov. 23. The headline on that story incorrectly said the airstrikes had wounded eight medics.”

The Toronto Star, August 8 2009: After seven years, The Star corrects a statement formerly attributed to Moshe Yaalon: “A Nov. 14, 2004, column about the death of Yasser Arafat included an unverified quotation attributed to former Israel Defence Forces chief of staff Moshe Yaalon. Yaalon, now Israel's strategic affairs minister, was quoted in that 2004 column as saying in 2002 that "the Palestinians must be made to understand in the deepest recesses of their consciousness that they are a defeated people. That quotation, while widely cited over the years, did not appear in the 2002 interview published in the Israeli newspaper Haaretz, to which it has been attributed. Alon Ofek-Arnon, a spokesman for Yaalon, told the Star in an email that Yaalon never said this. As well, in a correction about this same quote published March 6, 2009, by the Chicago Tribune, Ari Shavit, the writer of the 2002 Haaretz article, said Yaalon did not say that. The Star has been unable to reach Shavit.”

Montreal Gazette, March 6 2009: Report stated “Israeli Arabs do not serve in the military and that can be used to deprive them of jobs where such service is a prerequisite.” Correction issued stating “members of the Druze and Bedouin communities serve in the Israeli Defense Forces.”

Canwest News, Jan 13 2009: "A Canwest news story in Saturday’s paper reported that two truck drivers were killed by what the UN said was an Israeli tank attack. Later reports indicated that one driver was killed and a second wounded. In addition, the Israeli military denies that its forces were responsible for the incident." Correction issued.

Globe and Mail, Jan 13 2009: “Protests against Israel’s military offensive in Gaza have taken place in various cities in Israel in the past two weeks. Incorrect information appeared yesterday.” Correction issued.

Leader-Post, Dec 30 2008: “Israel begins ground offensive.” Correction: “Israel has not begun a ground offensive.”

Toronto Sun, Dec 29 2008: Article erroneously quoted a source stating "I was in Beirut in 2006 where 5000 people died..." Correction stated "More than 1,200 Lebanese died, as well as about 160 Israeli soldiers and civilians."

Vancouver Sun, Dec 27 2008: “Israeli militants fire rockets and mortars.” Correction: “The people described in the report were Palestinian terrorists.”

CBC Online, Aug 5 2008: “The original story incorrectly stated that Israel is occupying both the West Bank and Gaza. In fact, Israel pulled its troops and settlers out of Gaza in 2005, although it still carries out military operations there." Correction issued.

CBC TV: The World at Six, Dec 27 2007: According to a CBC Producer: Apology - On Dec. 20, the CBC TV program incorrectly stated that "One Israeli soldier was killed in today's operation." Contrary to this statement, while one soldier may have been severely wounded, no Israeli soldiers were killed that day.

CBC Online, Nov 16 2007: "A CBC report on an Israeli air strike that killed 5 Palestinians failed to mention that the IDF was targeting Palestinian rocket squads. Report also falsely claimed that Israel closed Gaza’s borders. HRC contacted CBC Online’s executive producer who added 5 paragraphs to the online article mentioning the above along with the fact that 1,200 rockets have hit Israel since June." Correction issued.

Globe and Mail, Oct 11 2007: “Rachel Corrie, an American peace activist, died at Rafah in the Gaza Strip in 2003, having been stuck by an Israeli Defense Force bulldozer. She was incorrectly described as having died in Israel in yesterday’s paper.” Correction issued.

CBC Online, Aug. 10, 2006: Online timeline incorrectly attributed casualty statistics of an Israeli missile attack. Online story revised and edited.

CTV News, June 29, 2006: CTV Newsnet falsely claimed that Israeli soldiers arrested Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh, whereas in fact, no such arrest had taken place. CTV News staff were reprimanded.

CBC Online, June 21, 2006: CBC incorrectly reported that an Israeli air strike targeted a member of the political group Fatah, it actually targeted a member of a terrorist group trying to infiltrate into Israel. Online story revised and edited. Correction issued.

Globe and Mail, Nov 24 2005: A photo of an Israeli soldier aiming a gun at Palestinian schoolgirls was printed without providing context. Globe acknowledged picture was inappropriate, initiated an internal review of picture usage, printed letters to the editor.

National Post, July 15 2005: “The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) conducted a raid on Wednesday in Tulkarm, in the West Bank, against Islamic Jihad, in order to disrupt and thwart future terrorist attacks, after a suicide bombing by an Islamic Jihad member in Netanya, Israel, on Tuesday. The IDF did not call this raid a retaliation for the suicide bombing, notwithstanding the wording of a Reuters story that was included in a story in Wednesday’s National Post." Correction issued.

Globe and Mail, July 14 2005, “The editing of a story in some editions of yesterday’s paper left unclear a description of a predawn raid in the West Bank. Israeli forces reoccupied the Palestinian town of Tulkarem in response to a suicide bombing in Israel. A Palestinian policeman was killed during the military action.” Correction issued.