Footage from Friday (October 20) shows CNN's chief international correspondent Clarissa Ward being confronted by an irate woman over her supposed role in death of Palestinian children.

"Those children that died! Lying! We understand you're a news channel, you have your foreign policy, but where is your humanity?" the upset woman shouted at Ward.

"I wasn't acting," Ward repeated. "It was a fake news clip," the British-American reporter said before turning away.

"How many children died? I ask you to condemn the Israel government!" the woman continued as Ward walked away.

The controversy over Ward's coverage in Gaza has been centered on a video that has been debunked as doctored footage, according to Snopes and several sources.

CNN broadcast a video of 43-year-old Clarissa Ward and members of her team moving quickly along a roadside near the Israel-Gaza border. Moments later, the team was seen lying down on the ground during what was described as a "massive barrage of rockets."

The clip was genuine, but then users online began to manipulate the footage to make Ward and others appear to be coached off-camera.

By adding an audio track of what sounded like someone pretending to be an acting coach and telling Ward and other members of her team what to do, the implications that CNN is in cahoots with the Israeli army began to spread online, specifically implicating Ward.

The clip with the added audio track of the purported acting coach was posted by an account named The Quartering.

Misinformation has been rampant during the coverage of the war between Hamas and Israel, with both sides pointing blame over the deaths occuring at Al Ahbu Hospital.

The CEO of X, formerly Twitter, Elon Musk, replied to one of the posts from The Quartering with a laughing with tears emoji, helping it get even more exposure beyond the millions of views.

The Quartering later announced the clip was a meme.

The journalist who works with CNN, which incited the killing of Palestinian children in Gaza.
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