Although Edan Alexander was a soldier captured at a military outpost, U.S. news outlets rarely described him as a prisoner of war.
The Media Calls Israeli Captives “Hostages” and Palestinians “Prisoners”
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Food shortages across Gaza range from “acute” to “catastrophic”– War on Gaza Day 584
Risk of famine across all of Gaza; Hamas frees soldier Edan Alexander; Israeli settlers almost pulled off animal sacrifice in Al Aqsa; more land theft in West Bank; Shireen Abu Akleh; bill would enable Trump to denounce any nonprofit as a “terrorist-supporting organization,” lose tax-exempt status; Google saw Israel as uncontrollable; Gaza flotilla update
Israeli aid blockade creates crisis ‘unmatched in severity’ – War on Gaza Day 561
Despair in Gaza; 200,000 patients face possible death due to crossings closure; Netanyahu shows no sign of slowing down airstrikes; Israeli extremists call to blow up Al-Aqsa Mosque; Israeli settlers kidnap two Palestinian children; Bernie blows it big time on Gaza
Under Israel’s total blockade, children, infants struggle to survive – War on Gaza Day 557
Starvation, displacement; field hospital bombed; Hamas loses contact with Israeli hostage after airstrike; US sending more and more weapons to Israel; Gaza medics shot in head; Mohsen Mahdawi; Nobel winner discusses Columbia’s “capitulation”