The Washington Post Faces Backlash For Misleading Front Page On Israeli Airstrikes

By Julianna Frieman

 

The Washington Post faced backlash Monday for its misleading front page showing family members mourning an 11-year-old killed by what officials have said was a Hezbollah airstrike with a headline about Israeli airstrikes.

A missile strike — which Israeli authorities have said was launched from Lebanon by Hezbollah — killed at least 12 children and wounded others playing soccer on Saturday in the Golan Heights, according to CNN. The Washington Post paired the image of mourners holding a photo of Alma Ayman Fakher Eldin, one of the 12 child victims, with the headline “Israel hits targets in Lebanon” in its article. The online version of the article has a different featured image at the time of writing.

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) condemned the publication’s front page on X.

“This is the front page of the @washingtonpost today,” the IDF wrote. “You can see grieving family members burying children murdered by Hezbollah in the Madjal Shams massacre. If by chance you understood anything else from their headline, you might not be the problem.”

This is the front page of the @washingtonpost today.

You can see grieving family members burying children murdered by Hezbollah in the Madjal Shams massacre.

If by chance you understood anything else from their headline, you might not be the problem. pic.twitter.com/cXuM2kNE54

— Israel Defense Forces (@IDF) July 29, 2024

Former Israeli government spokesman Elon Levy was outraged by the “backwards” headline, taking to X in response.

“That’s an image of a funeral of a girl KILLED IN ISRAEL BY A HEZBOLLAH ROCKET FROM LEBANON, so why is the @washingtonpost headline backwards?” Levy wrote on X…

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