Despite the UN-backed Integrated Food Security Phase Classification confirmation of Gaza’s famine, Israel’s denial persists as Western media reinforces these misleading narratives, argues Rebecca Ruth Gould.
The deaths of five journalists this week in an Israeli airstrike, while they were reporting from the supposedly safe confines of a hospital in southern Gaza, underscored how deadly the 22-month conflict has been for those trying to report about what is happening on the ground.
Establishment media reported on the murders of Gaza’s journalists using the same Zionist talking points that enabled their killings – the Israeli narrative.
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Mohamed Salama and Ahmed Abu Aziz were among 19 killed, after Israeli forces ambushed bystanders and first responders at Khan Younis hospital
The U.N. says hundreds of Palestinians have been shot and killed by Israel Defense Forces and foreign military contractors at or near its aid sites.
Forcibly moving Palestinians from the Gaza Strip to the war-torn East African country would be ethnic cleansing – a war crime.
The settler attackers roamed free, but Palestinians on the scene were detained, and the American nurse deported. “They don’t want people to feel comfortable helping Palestinians,” she said.
As the famine in Gaza becomes undeniable, the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation has relied on strategic communications specialists to reassign blame and push a narrative of success.
Israel has restricted aid to Gaza on the argument that Hamas steals it to use as a weapon of control over the population. This is not based on facts.