A Guardian article on April 28 by Damien Gayle (“Lebanon accuses Israel of committing ‘ecocide’ in country since 2023″) opens with the following sentence:
Lebanon’s minister for the environment has accused Israel’s military of committing “an act of ecocide” in the foreword to a report detailing the harm done to the country’s natural resources during the invasion of 2023 to 2024.
However, as we explained to Guardian editors in our complaint, there was, of course, no Israeli invasion of Lebanon in 2023.
As their own reports at the time show, Hezbollah began firing rockets at Israel’s northern communities on Oct. 8, 2023 – attacks that were unprovoked. Though Israel’s military responded to Hezbollah’s aggression – which resulted in the evacuation of over 60,000 Israelis – with airstrikes against Hezbollah targets, the IDF only launched its invasion of S. Lebanon, in an effort to stop the rocket fire, on Oct. 1, 2024.
Additionally, we complained, the word “Hezbollah” doesn’t appear even once in the article – depriving readers of basic context by which to understand Israeli military action in Southern Lebanon.
Our complaint was upheld, and the sentence revised:
Lebanon’s minister for the environment has accused Israel’s military of committing “an act of ecocide” in the foreword to a report detailing the harm done to the country’s natural resources during the Israel-Hezbollah conflict in 2023 to 2024.
The following editor’s note was added, noting the correction:
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