The Washington Post drew widespread criticism for sharing one of its articles on social media and posting that “at least 31 people were killed” in Gaza “according to the Strip’s health ministry, when Israeli troops opened fire on crowds making their way to collect aid.” The Post deleted the post, after it had been viewed some 2.4 million times, and it received fresh criticism for its statement about that deletion and its corrections to the article.

The paper stated that the “article failed to make clear if attributing the deaths to Israel was the position of the Gaza health ministry or a fact verified by the Post” and that it made changes to clarify “that there was no consensus about who was responsible for the shootings and that there was a dispute over that question.”

It added that though it quoted statements from Israel, that an inquiry said that soldiers didn’t fire at civilians, the paper “didn’t give proper weight to Israel’s denial and gave improper certitude about what was known about any Israeli role in the shootings.”