The entrance to the New York Times building in Manhattan was vandalized Tuesday with red spray paint by pro-Palestinian activists protesting the newspaper's correction to a story about a Gaza infant.
🇺🇸🇵🇸‼️ | Radicales pro-Hamás vandalizan la sede del New York Times en Manhattan tras retractarse de una historia falsa sobre un niño en Gaza con enfermedad muscular.pic.twitter.com/sIttKdKl57
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According to social media reports, the activists expressed outrage over the paper's retraction of a claim that 18-month-old Mohammad Zakaria al-Mutawak from Gaza was starving due to the humanitarian crisis in the Strip. The Times updated its reporting Tuesday, stating that upon further investigation, it had been determined that the child was suffering from a hereditary illness that causes muscular degeneration—not from malnutrition, as initially reported.
In response to the correction, the activists accused the New York Times of collaborating with Israel and attempting to downplay the scale of suffering in Gaza. They spray-painted the building with the slogan "NYT LIES – GAZA DIES," marking the latest in a series of protests accusing Western media outlets of biased coverage of the war.
