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Source: https://www.camera.org/article/pbs-erases-gazas-jewish-history-destroys-an-unharmed-church/
PBS Repeats Lie that Israel Destroyed Gaza Church
(CAMERA) Darcie Grunblatt - On Dec. 30, 2025, PBS NewsHour's Jeffrey Brown reported that "An Israeli strike in the first few weeks of the war destroyed...the 1,600-year-old Church of St. Prophyrius in Gaza." In reality, the church was not destroyed. Satellite images, pictures, and videos of the church's chapel after the Oct. 19, 2023, strike show that while a building in the church compound was destroyed, the chapel itself was unharmed. Satellite images from Google Earth show this as well. The New York Times unequivocally reported after the strike: "The chapel was not hit." The Times noted that the compound includes "a chapel, seven buildings and a courtyard." The Times report added that the IDF was trying to destroy a Hamas command center near the church that the military believes has been involved in launching rockets and mortars toward Israel. PBS has ignored CAMERA's requests to amend the broadcast's multiple failings, including the cover up of Hamas's presence and falsely implicating Israel in deliberate targeting of antiquities with its false reporting of the destruction of an intact church.