Reuters News Agency has removed a link to an anti-Israel blog that referred to the Jewish state as the "Zionist regime" and the separation barrier as the "Apartheid Wall." The blog also claimed that Israeli soldiers were ordered to "kill peaceful Palestinian protestors."
The blog was removed after protests from the HonestReporting organization.
During the last week of August 2006, Reuters claimed that Israeli Air Force pilots bombed one of its vehicles during a missile strike on terrorists in Gaza. The story was later found to be completely false.
Less than a month earlier, during the Second Lebanon War, Reuters photographer Adnan Hajj deliberately doctored a photo to give the impression that Israeli Air Force pilots were bombing a target in Lebanon.
Earlier in the war, the same Lebanese photographer on the agency’s payroll altered a photo to make a routine Israeli bombing mission during the war appear massive and harsh.
Other news agencies continue to disseminate false information that is geared to raise international criticism of Israel.
A recent photo distributed by the French news agency AFP contains the caption, "File photo shows a trench being dug as part of an archaeological dig in the Al-Aqsa mosque compound." However, the trench shown in the picture actually is one that was dug by the Palestinian Authority.
The unsupervised work resulted in the removal of debris that included priceless artifacts from the Temple Mount.