Fox News Anchor Harris Faulkner Issues On Air Correction to Claim About Israel-Gaza War

Fox News anchor Harris Faulkner issued an on-air correction to comments she made last week about the Israel-Gaza war on her show, The Faulkner Focus.

“I want to correct a factual error right here on the platform in which it was said, The Faulkner Focus on Monday,” Faulkner said Thursday, during her broadcast before a live audience in Nashville, TN. Faulkner and other Fox personalities were in Nashville for Thursday night’s Fox Nation Patriot Awards.

“I was wrong when I expressly said that Pakistan had expelled Palestinians. The government there is, in fact, kicking out 1.7 million people and what they’re called a ‘tiered repatriation.’ Pakistan says those people are there illegally — they’re illegal immigrants. Now, here’s who they are: mostly Afghans who have tried to flee the Taliban. Some Uyghurs, ethnic Muslims who are facing genocide in China. And some from Iran and other places. So, I want to set the record straight — it is a mixed group of people, mostly Afghans being expelled.”

Faulkner made the claim about the “1.7 million Palestinians” during two shows last week:

WED., NOV. 8: Everybody has a heart for those suffering. (Rashida Tlaib) needs to call the leader of Pakistan where they expelled 1.7 million Palestinians.

MON., NOV. 6: Five days ago, Pakistan kicked out 1.7 million Palestinians. Where are these people? I mean, don’t they care about the 1.7 million Palestinians that are being, I mean, just expelled from Pakistan right now? Why is that happening? Who is that happening to? Who’s creating a corridor of safety for them to go where? Who wants them? Where will they go? Why don’t they protest some of these other Arab nations that aren’t opening their doors to any Palestinians? The 1.7 million Palestinians getting kicked out of Pakistan and the people who are asked to leave the war zone for their own safety.

Watch the clip above via Fox News.