Dan Abrams Calls Out Media For Credulously Reporting Hamas Claims About Deadly Hospital Strike in Gaza

Mediaite founder and NewsNation anchor Dan Abrams blasted the media for credulously reporting on Hamas blaming Israel for an explosion at a hospital in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, characterizing it as a “disturbing rush to judgment.”

“Initial reports from Hamas — from Hamas! — put the death toll at 500 people, which would make it one of the deadliest air strikes in a decade and a half,” noted Abrams.

“But as news of the explosion broke, there was a disturbing rush to judgment by mainstream news outlets, including the AP, New York Times, Washington Post, CNN, all immediately taking a statement by the Hamas, terrorist-run health ministry in the Gaza Strip, putting the blame squarely on an Israeli airstrike,” he continued before playing clips of the media’s instant reaction to the explosion.

“They’re all treating the health ministry as if it’s like a legitimate source! This is Hamas,” exclaimed Abrams after rolling the tape.  “The headlines from major media outlets repeating the report that hundreds were killed by Israel. Look, it never quite made sense that Israel, as it pauses its incursion into Gaza to make sure it has international support, would strike a hospital of all places.”

Still, Abrams said the media should not take the word of the Israeli government as fact.

“Look, Hamas intentionally kills, kidnaps and lies. That does not mean that we should accept Israel’s word at face value in a situation like this. We shouldn’t. But based on all the circumstances, the fact that Israel’s gonna say that it can provide video, the circumstances I talked about, about the motivations. At the least, the media should be much more skeptical than they have been of these accounts from Hamas,” he argued.

Abrams’ colleague Leland Vittert then joined Abrams to drive the point home.’

“You had Jake Tapper saying ‘the government in Gaza.’ Well, he could have also said the Hamas terrorist organization, which just committed the largest one day slaughter of Jews since the Holocaust, claims without evidence an Israeli airstrike took out this hospital, took out this hospital in the hours before President Biden arrives in Israel. It didn’t make sense, but no journalist wanted to say that,” submitted Vittert.

Watch above via NewsNation.