Hezbollah Is Still Firing Rockets into Israel, But Not According to the Press
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by Tamar Sternthal
Lebanese Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah addresses his supporters via a screen during a rally commemorating late Hezbollah commander Mustafa Badreddine, who was killed in an attack in Syria, in the Beirut suburbs, Lebanon on May 20, 2022. REUTERS/Aziz Taher
In their March 13 Reuters article, reporters Maya Gebeily, Laila Bassam, and Henriette Chacar turned Hezbollah rocket attacks against Israel into a thing of the past, as opposed to that very same morning.
Concealing continuing and current Hezbollah rocket attacks against Israel, the trio misled readers as follows (“Israeli strike in south Lebanon kills Hamas member“):
Lebanese armed group Hezbollah launched rockets at Israel in October in support of Hamas. Since then, Israel has been carrying out strikes in Lebanon, mostly confined to the border region but increasingly spreading further north and east.
Hezbollah launched rocket attacks against Israel not only “in” October, but also countless days since October, including the very day of the report. That morning, at 10:13, Hezbollah launched a rocket towards Hanita, in northern Israel. The previous morning, the terror organization boasted about firing 100 rockets at Israel. In recent days, Hezbollah’s attacks have been incessant.
Alongside the rocket attacks, Hezbollah drone and deadly anti-tank attacks have continued regularly until March 13, and since (with the most recent rocket attack targeting Shtula, Shumra, Zarit and Even Menachem as of Sunday, March 17). The Institute for National Security Studies details Hezbollah’s daily attacks against Israeli targets through Feb. 20 (along with IDF strikes against Hezbollah).
Indeed, there have been many, many more Hezbollah attacks against Israel, rockets and otherwise, since October than in October. Daily reports detailing Hezbollah attacks on Israel are also available at the Meir Amit Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center, and are updated (as of this writing) until March 14.
Many of Hezbollah’s attacks have been deadly, killing numerous civilians along with soldiers. Most recently, on March 4, Hezbollah’s anti-tank fire killed a foreign agricultural worker in Moshav Margaliot and injured nine more. On Jan. 14, a Hezbollah missile attack killed an elderly mother along with her son at their home in Kfar Yuval. Electrician Shalom Aboudi was killed by a Hezbollah missile attack Nov. 12, as he attempted to repair lines damaged in an earlier Hezbollah strike. Additional civilian casualties killed in Hezbollah attacks since October include 60-year-old Eyal Uzan (Dec. 7).
Nearly 100,000 Israelis from the north are still evacuated from their homes because of the ongoing Hezbollah fire.
Though CAMERA communicated with editors about the misrepresentation of Hezbollah attacks as a phenomenon of the past, Reuters has yet to amend the misleading passage, which falsely suggested that Israel is the only party which has been firing since October.
Update: After the fact, Reuters corrected its reporting both in English and Arabic to state that “Hezbollah launched rockets at Israel since October,” as opposed to “in October.”
Tamar Sternthal is the director of CAMERA’s Israel Office. A version of this article previously appeared on the CAMERA website.
