If true, this story is more than just the destruction of a very important monument but the delay in the news would raise obvious concerns about what else might have happened without being reported.
UPDATE 5th June:
Andie Byrnes has more information including a comment by Barry Kemp: Damage to Amarna stela? It seems part of the problem lies in the inability of certain Egyptian newspapers to ascertain the facts of a case before publishing any old rubbish about them which we have seen here before. Though damage does seem to have taken place.