The news wire’s story doesn’t mention that the United States has designated Hezbollah as a terror organization for nearly 30 years.
After Mahdi Sheri, described by the Associated Press as a 23-year-old “Hezbollah fighter,” responded to a message on his pager that, unknown to him, was a highly targeted Israeli attack on the terror group, he “felt a sharp pain in his head and eyes,” the news wire reporter.
“His bed was covered in blood. Thinking he had been hit by a drone, he stumbled outside and passed out,” the AP reported in an article about “survivors” of the Israeli attack. “He was first treated in Syria, then in Iraq, as hospitals in Lebanon struggled to handle the high number of patients. Shrapnel was removed from his left eye socket, and he had a prosthetic eye installed.”
Nowhere in the more than 2,150-word article, nor in an accompanying photo essay, did the AP note that the United States has designated Hezbollah as a terror organization for nearly 30 years. The word “terror” doesn’t appear at all.