The New York Times issued a statement to its readers regarding its coverage of an explosion of part of a hospital in Gaza, where it initially hinged its reporting on claims from Palestinian officials that the explosion was from an Israeli airstrike.
“The Times’s initial accounts attributed the claim of Israeli responsibility to Palestinian officials, and noted that the Israeli military said it was investigating the blast,” the outlet said in its statement.
The initial headline the New York Times ran on the story was “Israeli Strike Kills Hundreds in Hospital, Palestinians say,” with the outlet later amending it in the following hours to convey the unknown origin of the blast.