Hamas’ Editors: AFP Deletes Genocide Call From Terror Statement | Honest Reporting

The guiding principles of the Agence France-Presse (AFP) wire service contain a clear ban on manipulating quotes, and instruct journalists to “report sources accurately, without modifying what was said or selectively using quotes that misrepresent the sense of the statement.”
But these editorial standards did not deter AFP from distorting a quote about Israel in a March 31, 2023 article. Reporting on a missive by the Palestinian terrorist organization Hamas, AFP cited “Gaza’s Islamist rulers” as issuing the following warning:
The seizure of land by the Israeli occupation and the colonial expansion of settlements are doomed to fail.”