Chris Hayes: Gaza boy reportedly killed near humanitarian aid site is alive

[lapucelle]

Chris Hayes has a good news update on a story reported last month out of a Gaza. An American veteran who worked as a contractor at a humanitarian aid site in Gaza said he watched a young boy get life-saving food, then get killed by IDF gunfire. The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation says it has found the boy alive and that he is well. NBC News producers have confirmed the boy is alive and outside of Gaza. Earlier videos on this reporting have been removed.

https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/gaza-boy-reportedly-killed-near-humanitarian-aid-site-is-alive-247243845601

[Mosby]

1. The American veteran is Tony Aguilar.

His statements about his time in Gaza received a lot of attention here at DU.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100220528663
https://www.democraticunderground.com/132153859
https://www.democraticunderground.com/132283347
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100220521662
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100220523566
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100220530671

[cliffside]

2. Glad he is alive. nt

[Igel]

3. It wasn't a secret at the time.

But nobody bothered to correct the record because those who knew liked having the misinformation believed. One in a string of reporters uncritically reporting what confirms and conforms to their biases.

That kind of thing makes a lot of other "completely objective and true information from Gaza" reduces the perception that other completely "objective and true" really is.