Last evening, we Tweeted a Telegraph journalist to point out an error and omission in a report (by Megan Charles) on an incident last month in which an Israeli Border Police officer allegedly confiscated a Palestinian girl’s bicycle in Hebron.
First, we noted that the report failed to include the fact that the officer was “immediately suspended from active duty”.
@megann_charles 1/2 About your report @Telegraph https://t.co/qi7BoKxyAs You didn't note the officer was suspended https://t.co/tV3Ykmr6EO
— CAMERA UK (formerly UK Media Watch and BBC Watch) (@CAMERAorgUK) August 2, 2016
Also we noted that her claim that the first real Jewish settlement in Hebron was established in 1967 was not correct. It was established in 1979.
@megann_charles 2/2 Also, first Hebron settlement was established in 1979, not 1967 https://t.co/vCxAxi43DB
— CAMERA UK (formerly UK Media Watch and BBC Watch) (@CAMERAorgUK) August 2, 2016
We then included @Telegraph in a new tweet to ask that the errors be addressed, and we soon received a tweet from the journalist informing us that both corrections were made.
already amended.
— Megan Charles (@megann_charles) August 2, 2016
The date of the first Hebron settlement was changed, and a sentence on the soldier’s suspension was added to the report.
We commend Ms. Charles and the Telegraph for the correction.
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