Palestinian Authority News Agency Hides Terror Attack, and Says All of Israel Is Occupied ‘Territory’
Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas attends a virtual meeting, in the West Bank city of Ramallah, Sept. 3, 2020. Photo: Alaa Badarneh / Pool / File photo via Reuters. In one article, the official…
Assessment
The PA's official news agency is actively rewriting events: omitting a knife attack, relabeling an Israeli city as occupied territory, and misusing crime data to shift blame. This pattern of media management undermines the credibility of Palestinian reporting and obscures the realities on the ground. The question is whether such narratives are an isolated lapse or institutional policy.