The beleaguered CBS Evening News insists on lending itself to be an instrument of Hamas propaganda. Almost two years since the start of the war subsequent to Hamas’s barbaric terror attack against Israel, CBS insists on obscuring Hamas’s control of the local health ministry.
Watch as CBS News personnel make reference to a “Health Ministry” of indeterminate control, twice within the span of 38 seconds:
MAURICE DuBOIS: Overseas, the health ministry in Gaza said today the number of Palestinians killed in the war between Israel and Hamas has topped 60,000, and three United Nations agencies warned Gaza is on the brink of full-scale famine.
JOHN DICKERSON Food aid is being flown in from Amman, Jordan. Debora Patta went along for a flight.
DEBORA PATTA: This Royal Jordanian Air Force plane is loaded with supplies for Palestinians. We flew with a team to airdrop the aid into Gaza, where nearly 150 people have died of starvation, according to the health ministry. Under intense international pressure, Israel has paused military operations for ten hours a day in some areas to allow aid delivery by land and air.
The report itself was focused on relief efforts led by The Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, specifically, food drops. Patta rode along as the Royal Jordanian Air Force dropped supplies into Gaza.
The report even goes on to note that some of those supplies fell into the sea, as evidenced by images of Palestinians going in after them. The report even depicted a woman complaining about the assistance she received:
PATTA: Amal Assi managed to retrieve a parcel of aid, but says the food is not suitable for her three children who desperately need protein.
(SPEAKS IN ARABIC)
PATTA: Enough with this humiliation, she said. Children have forgotten what eggs and fruit are.
The glaring omission, of course, is that not only was Hamas not mentioned as running the health ministry. They weren’t mentioned at all beyond the initial framing of this report.
Neither is there any mention of hostages. Their release from Hamas custody would greatly accelerate the inflow of relief into Gaza, but this also goes unnoticed and unreported.
CBS’s insistence in asserting that the Hamas-run Health Ministry is wholly independent proves the public’s lack of trust in news media.
Click “expand” to view the full transcript of the aforementioned report as aired on the CBS Evening News on Tuesday, July 29th, 2025:
MAURICE DuBOIS: Overseas, the health ministry in Gaza said today the number of Palestinians killed in the war between Israel and Hamas has topped 60,000, and three United Nations agencies warned Gaza is on the brink of full-scale famine.
JOHN DICKERSON Food aid is being flown in from Amman, Jordan. Debora Patta went along for a flight.
DEBORA PATTA: This Royal Jordanian Air Force plane is loaded with supplies for Palestinians. We flew with a team to airdrop the aid into Gaza, where nearly 150 people have died of starvation, according to the health ministry. Under intense international pressure, Israel has paused military operations for ten hours a day in some areas to allow aid delivery by land and air.
What you see here are about 20 pallets of aid. That's roughly equivalent to one truck entry into Gaza. It certainly looks good, everything matters, but it's not nearly enough. TheWorld Food Programme says they need at least 600 trucks entering Gaza by road every single day if they are going to make any dent in this crisis. From the aircraft, you could see the Gaza shoreline as we entered the skies above the north. Below was a wasteland of devastation and ruin. That's the closest we are going to get to Gaza because for the entire duration of this nearly two year long war, Israel has not allowed any foreign journalists to report independently from the territory. The pallets of aid were parachuted down to the scorched Earth below, but this can also be hazardous. Here you see Palestinians chasing the air drops into the sea, only to retrieve soggy packets of food. Amal Assi managed to retrieve a parcel of aid, but says the food is not suitable for her three children who desperately need protein.
(SPEAKS IN ARABIC)
PATTA: Enough with this humiliation, she said. Children have forgotten what eggs and fruit are.
Jordan, together with the UAE operate two flights a day, and there are about 68 trucks getting in daily, but the UN says they have 6,000 trucks in Jordan and Egypt just waiting for the green light to enter Gaza.
DuBOIS: Debora Patta in Amman, Jordan tonight. Thanks for the perspective.
