Reuters corrected an article on Monday claiming the U.S.-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation submitted a proposal to put Palestinians in camps while the Hamas terror group in the Gaza Strip was dismantled.
“CORRECTION: A proposal seen by Reuters and bearing the name of a controversial U.S.-backed aid group described a plan to build camps inside—and possibly outside—Gaza, outlining a vision of ‘replacing Hamas’ control over the population in Gaza,’” the wire service stated.
“We deleted an earlier post to clarify it could not be determined who created or submitted the document,” the statement continued.
The story, initially titled “Exclusive: US-backed aid group proposed ‘Humanitarian Transit Areas’ for Palestinians in Gaza,” claimed GHF proposed a $2 billion plan to construct “‘large-scale’ and ‘voluntary’ camps where the Gazan population could ‘temporarily reside, deradicalize, re-integrate and prepare to relocate if they wish to do so.’”
The amended story still claims that the document includes the GHF name on the cover and SRS, a for-profit contracting company that works with GHF, on several slides, and that it was submitted to the U.S. embassy in Jerusalem and the Trump administration, “according to sources.”
Reuters reported that, while the U.S. State Department declined to comment on the supposed proposal, a senior administration official said, “nothing of the like is under consideration.”
“Another day, another false headline,” GHF wrote of the original report. “Reuters referenced a so-called ‘GHF presentation’ that we’ve never seen, never created and had no part in.”
GHF added that it “asked to review the document,” but the news outlet “refused to share it.”
“We told them clearly: GHF has no involvement in HTAs, no plans for HTAs, and this presentation is NOT ours,” the organization stated. “They ran the story anyway.”
“This isn’t journalism,” GHF continued. “It’s agenda-driven clickbait, propped up by bad-faith sources and designed to stir controversy, not uncover truth.”
