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  • Israel’s Gaza wall footage ‘disappearing’ is yet another reminder they know EXACTLY what they’re doing

    A year on from 7 October, world leaders and the corporate media are gushing over Israel. As usual, they are forgetting the years of apartheid and violence that led Hamas’s attack – along with the thousands of Palestinians they have murdered since.

    Conveniently, at the end of last year when senior officials tried to access the security footage of the wall that barricades the Gaza strip, it had suspiciously disappeared from the database. There are conflicting reports as to whether officials permanently deleted these, or just restricted them to senior government officials. Israeli’s have also provided reports of audio communications being interfered with – so they are no longer decipherable.

    As the Cradle reported in December 2023:

    During a visit by a senior female officer from the Israeli army general staff to the various division headquarters, senior officers in the reserves commented that “an invisible hand” had deleted videos from the various military surveillance cameras showing the events of that day.

    It continued:

    The videos were deleted from the military network known as “ZeeTube,” potentially to prevent their use in an in-depth investigation of how thousands of Hamas fighters managed to breach the border fence and infiltrate Israel to carry out the attack.

    We sat down with one of the generals and were going to show him a video about one of the events, and we found out that someone had deleted the videos,” said a senior reserve officer from one of the divisions, adding, “It was very embarrassing. Then suspicion arose as to why someone would do that.

    Unsurprisingly, Israeli military officials denied this. They told Israeli news site Walla, who broke the revelations, that the videos had simply been “blocked to unauthorised people”.

    Separately, the outlet noted how someone appeared to have interfered with the audio communications recordings of the day. The officials noted that some had “disappeared” or may have been “transferred to another location”, but that it meant they were “unable to hear them.”

    The senior officers suggested that: “Someone decided to transfer or delete them so that no one will hear them”. IDF officials didn’t comment on these allegations relating to the audio recordings at the time. In other words, it looks like some Netanyahu government heavyweight got rid of these deliberately.

    Mysterious, or suspicious?

    One person on X quickly reminded us that the wall is supposedly the most surveilled and high-tech border in the world – making it even more suspicious:

    Someone pointed out that Israeli officials were either lying, or they’ve never heard of cloud storage. Given the state’s claims to be at the height of tech, it’s clearly the former:

    Israel doesn’t make mistakes – until they’re convenient:

    Israel’s credibility belongs in the bin, which is no doubt where the camera footage is too:

    As one X user put it:

    However, predictably it transpired the vanished footage was entirely intentional all along. Of course, it raises the question of what Israel doesn’t want people to see or hear.

    Hannibal directive

    Last November, the Electronic Intifada exposed Israel’s use of the Hannibal directive on 7 October.

    The Hannibal Directive is a controversial Israeli military policy which allows them to use any force necessary to prevent Israeli soldiers being captured and taken hostage. This includes any action which ultimately leads to the captives deaths. Israel cancelled the official policy back in 2016. However, on 7 October at midday officials revived the directive.

    Double Down News revealed that the Israeli military were aware of Hamas’s plans, and didn’t even raise the alert level to number one – the most basic one. This means when Hamas burst through the fence at 6:30am, many of the soldiers were still in bed. Which again, is insane when Israel had prior knowledge of the plans. This means that the border footage disappearing is even more convenient as it absolves Israel:

    What is Israel hiding?

    Israel also deployed Apache helicopters, but without ground control. This meant pilots were relying on WhatsApp groups to try and decipher which vehicles heading towards the border contained Hamas, hostages, or civilians.

    Ultimately, this led to Israeli soldiers indiscriminately shooting at over 70 vehicles and in many cases killing everyone in the vehicle. The Israeli military does not deny that report. Obviously, if these vehicles were heading towards the border you would expect that the security footage picked up at least some of them. In other words, maybe it’s this Israel doesn’t want even its own IDF senior officers to see:

    At the end of the day, it all looks like another case of Israel manipulating and concealing the facts to hide how it murdered some of its own civilians on 7 October. Because, to admit to this would be to demolish the pretext it used to launch its genocide in the first place – not that anything can justify its abhorrent crusade of violence since.

    Feature image via Quds News Network/X

    By HG

    This post was originally published on Canary.

  • Israel’s War on Palestine

    Following the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas-led attacks, in which nearly 1,200 Israelis were killed and over 200 hostages captured, Israel’s scorched-earth assault on the Gaza Strip has wreaked a kind of devastation unseen in the 21st century. In the 12 months after Oct. 7—with unconditional political, financial, and military support from the United States—Israel has leveled Gaza and perpetrated a full-blown ethnic cleansing of Palestinians. In what has been referred to as “the most documented genocide in history,” Israel has displaced 90% of the population of the Gaza Strip, killing 41,900 Palestinians and wounding more than 97,300, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry (though research published in the journal Lancet notes that the real death toll is likely much, much higher). This is to say nothing of the violence, death, devastation, and displacement that has resulted over 75 years of Israel’s brutal occupation of historic Palestine and Palestinians’ resistance to the occupation.

    Israel’s war on Palestine did not begin after Oct. 7, but that day will forever be marked as a bloody turning point in history—not just for Israel and Palestine, but for the world. From makeshift schools in Gaza’s refugee camps to neighborhoods in the West Bank raided by the IDF; from professional athletes protesting Israel’s genocidal war on Palestinians to mass marches for a ceasefire in Washington, DC; from students and labor unions fighting to disrupt the war machine to anti-Zionist Jews fighting to end the occupation; from Israel’s invasion of Lebanon to corporate media’s role in laundering and perpetuating the politics of genocide; you will find compiled on this page a living archive of all the original coverage TRNN has published since October 2023 related to Israel, Palestine, and anti-war and Palestine solidarity movements around the world.

    This post was originally published on The Real News Network.

  • Report: Blinken Signed Off on Israeli Policy to Attack Humanitarian Aid Trucks

    In the early days of Israel’s genocide in Gaza, Secretary of State Antony Blinken signed off on a policy for Israeli forces to attack humanitarian convoys carrying much-needed aid for the millions of Palestinians trapped in Gaza, new reporting finds. Drop Site News, citing reports from Israeli media, revealed in a report this week that the powerful Israeli Security Cabinet developed a plan…

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  • After October 7, my home became a bag I carry with me

    This story originally appeared in Mondoweiss on Oct. 7, 2024. It is shared here with permission.

    We spent years inventing new ways of surviving under an Israeli blockade that had lasted for nearly a generation. We always nurtured the feeling that after long years of sacrifice and continuous struggle to achieve our freedom, we would be greeted by a light at the end of the tunnel. The Palestinian people were destined to end the occupation and wrest the right to live on their land and return to the lands of their ancestors.

    But even after 76 years since the first Nakba experienced by our ancestors, those same ancestors who left Yaffa, Askalan, and dozens of cities and villages destroyed by Israel in 1948 before they resettled in Gaza, are now reliving the same fate. The massacres they have witnessed, if not similar to the ones they survived 76 years ago, are more criminal and bloody. But what is worse is that the same events they experienced during the Nakba is now being lived by their grandchildren. 

    There will always be those who will relive the Nakba or experience it for the first time as long as the Israeli occupation of Palestine remains.

    I was born in the Shuja’iyya neighborhood in eastern Gaza City. My father lived and worked there like every other father in Gaza who wanted to secure a future for his children. He died while resting assured that his youngest son’s future was secured. 

    The youngest among my brothers, I started a family of my own and furnished a house. A year later, I had a child who filled our home with joy. I was preparing for the future, already living my dream of starting a family, living in our homeland in a house surrounded by olive and lemon trees, with all my siblings and their families living in the same building or right next door. I already had good neighbors, a life full of memories, the scent of jasmine at the entrance of the house, and almond blossoms that freely entered our home in the spring. My mother used to sit in her house and watch the sunset, with almond blossoms at her feet, their bright colors like stars.

    But my home became a bag I carried on my back after the Israeli army destroyed the neighborhood where I was born and raised. The city whose streets I walked, whose trees I memorized, was now no more. I lived through several wars in that city already, somehow managing to survive like everyone else and move on with my life. But I did not survive this war. I learned too late that the bag that carried everything I owned might end up being everything I will ever possess of my homeland.

    Forms of displacement

    I could not risk staying in Gaza City, with a family that included my one-year-old child, my wife, and my elderly mother. Every time the Israeli army ordered us to evacuate one place or another, we would do so immediately. We spent months moving under fire.

    In the first week of the war, we moved around different parts of Gaza City. Due to the power and internet outage, I would go every day to a cafe next to al-Shifa Hospital to work and return home. I would take the same route, and when I returned home, I would find that the route I took in the morning had changed in the evening due to heavy shelling and bombing.

    My home was a short distance away, but I couldn’t go there. The only time I went home was to get some clothes and belongings, as I thought our displacement would be protracted; when I got home, several airstrikes fell nearby, and the house filled up with smoke. I left home without locking the doors. They remained unlocked until we learned that it had been bombed and razed to the ground by the Israeli army.

    Everything I knew and lived with my entire life, all my childhood memories and my memories with my parents, the pictures hanging on the walls, and the steps leading to my home, all of it had turned to ash.

    When the first warning to evacuate Gaza City was issued, I took my family and went to Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip. We spent over two months in the city, until Khan Younis was ordered to evacuate as well. We were displaced once again toward Rafah. I remained without my extended family, who were scattered across different displacement centers. Eventually, I was able to leave Gaza entirely.

    I’ve experienced internal displacement within my country and forced exile abroad. I can now say with unflinching certainty that displacement within my country is much easier than leaving, despite the continuous bombing, massacres, hunger, and lack of basic life necessities. I learned the hard way that one’s homeland is irreplaceable.

    Everything I see outside Gaza, I say to myself, Gaza deserves this — the roads and trees, the airports, the organized and illuminated streets, the freedom of movement. I have cried for a long time for people who continue to live their lives in displacement as a reward for escaping the Israeli killing machine.

    All that remains of my homeland is the bag that I carry, the images of destruction on the news, and tears that do not stop.

    Journalism in war

    Being a journalist in Palestine without international protection and respect for your life is like working with the barrel of a loaded gun always against your head.

    I lived amid the genocide for six consecutive months. I was honestly not afraid of death, even when my colleagues at Mondoweiss gave me the choice between ceasing to write at a time when Israel was deliberately targeting outspoken journalists, I chose to write and continue my work. My life was not more precious to me than the truth. But my greatest fear was being killed in the field and leaving my one-year-old child alone in a world that knows no mercy. 

    I had to live with these feelings of anxiety every time I went out to work on a story, or take a picture, or gather testimonies. It was the fear that my child would wait for me to return, staring at the door and using the word he had just learned — “Baba” — but that I would not open the door.

    I watched as dozens of my colleagues were martyred. Had the war not separated us, I would have likely been with them in the field still, like my friends Rushdi Sarraj, Mahmoud al-Naouq, Hassouna Salim, and many other martyred journalists who were killed by Israel either while they were working or in their homes with their families. 

    Going out on a work mission was like going out into the unknown. I had to hide to avoid detection by Israeli drones that fired indiscriminately on civilians. They might drop a bomb on anyone and kill them, as happened with the journalist Ismail al-Ghoul, whose head was severed from his body by a missile. When it was necessary to go out in a journalistic uniform, I saw two different reactions from people. Some came to tell their bitter story, hoping their voice would reach someone and help them, and others stayed away from me for fear of being targeted. I did not blame anyone because I knew what I was doing was dangerous.

    The road to diaspora

    Now that I have lived through my own Nakba, I understand the reasons that drove thousands of Palestinians to flee their homes in 1948. I left my country to save my family’s lives. After watching my mother suffering from war day after day, eventually dying from a lack of medical treatment, and after searching the markets for days to find formula for my child, I made the most difficult decision of my life.

    Even when I decided to leave Gaza, getting out was not easy or affordable. Palestinians had to pay vast sums of money to pass through the Rafah crossing, which the Hamas government in Gaza and the Egyptian authorities ran. With the help of friends, I was able to gather the required amount for my family’s travel, waiting 40 days after paying the money for my name to be added to the list of travelers. After that, my body left Gaza, but my soul and heart never left.

    In the diaspora, I can’t own anything, neither house nor land. Not a picture to hang on a wall, or a sea that I can feel like I did in Gaza, my most important companion in times of anxiety that brought me peace. 

    In the diaspora, the refugee only owns his sorrows, which grow in abundance with every day spent away from home. In the diaspora, it pains me greatly that my son will grow up alone without his cousins who loved to play with him, without his aunts and uncles who looked forward to witnessing his first steps and say his first words. Everyone doted on him because he was the youngest child in the family. Today, it’s difficult to find a child his age to play with.

    Should I blame the Palestinian resistance for the October 7 attack? Many international media platforms certainly do. They began their coverage of the war by blaming the Palestinian resistance. For them, the resistance was the instigator of the genocide, completely forgetting Israel’s long and continued history of meting out death and displacement since 1948 in defiance of all international laws and norms. For them, those same international laws that allow a people under occupation to engage in all forms of resistance to liberate their lands do not apply. The world’s double standards tried to portray Palestinians struggling for freedom as criminals who brought this upon themselves.

    These are the same media organizations and countries that give unconditional aid to Ukraine and do not begrudge the Ukrainians their right to defend themselves. Yet they accuse the Palestinians, whose cause is far more just and who are attempting to reclaim their occupied homeland, of terrorism.

    My house was bombed, my family was displaced multiple times, my mother died because Israel prevented medicine and aid from reaching Gaza, and my entire homeland is now lost to me for an indefinite period of time. But I do not blame the resistance, because without resisting the occupation, the Israelis will continue to shed our blood and carry out their genocide against us. Without resistance, there will be no one to stand in their way.

    This post was originally published on The Real News Network.

  • US Has Sent Record $18B in Military Aid to Israel in Past Year — at a Minimum

    As Israel has committed a genocide in Gaza and now threatens to unleash its aggression across the Middle East, the U.S. has sent Israeli forces a record $17.9 billion in military assistance, a new report released on the one-year mark of the genocide finds. According to Brown University’s Costs of War, this is the highest amount of military aid sent to Israel in a year since the U.S.

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    This post was originally published on Latest – Truthout.

  • Report from Beirut: Israel Intensifies Bombardment of Lebanon, Displacing 1.2 Million


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  • Israel Has Killed, Wounded or Rendered Missing 10 Percent of Gaza Population

    In one year of genocide in Gaza, Israel has killed, wounded, detained or otherwise rendered missing at least 10 percent of Palestinians in Gaza. Since October 7, 2023, over 50,000 Palestinians have been killed and over 100,000 have been injured, per the latest counts by Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor in a report released for the anniversary of the start of the genocide.

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    This post was originally published on Latest – Truthout.

  • Israel’s Occupation and Wars Have Fueled Resistance Movements

    In a report from Beirut, Rima Majed examines Israel’s escalating attacks on Lebanon and how Israel’s actions in the region have fueled resistance movements. “Since October last year, we’ve realized … our lives do not have a meaning in this broader international order. We are numbers. Our bodies are disposable,” says Majed. “All we keep hearing is that Israel has the right to self-defense.

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  • As a Rabbi, Taking Direct Action Against Genocide Is Part of My Sacred Practice

    In Judaism, the first 10 days of the new year — a period we are observing this week — are a time of committed reflection. As I reflect on this year of death and destruction, I think of all the lives that have been taken — 1,189 Israelis were killed or taken hostage and at least 42,000 Palestinians and likely far more were killed. Every human killed in the past year was someone else’s entire world.

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  • Despite attempts to hide it, Israeli forces clearly killed their own on 7 October

    Electronic Intifada journalist Asa Winstanley has marked the one-year anniversary of 7 October by releasing the article How Israel killed hundreds of its own people on 7 October. In it, the outlet gives “a full overview” of a “major scandal” that Israel propagandists wanted the Western media to ignore. This was the revelation “that Israel killed hundreds of its own people between 7 and 9 October 2023”, namely under the Hannibal Directive, which preferred the murder of Israeli soldiers over allowing them to become hostages.

    Israel: “An aggressive cover-up of its crimes against its own people”

    Winstanley writes that Israel understood on 7 October 2023 that Hamas-led fighters from Gaza had temporarily “overpowered” Israeli soldiers. The Palestinian forces reportedly captured 255 Israeli hostages, including soldiers. Israeli occupation forces would kill some of these either indirectly or directly in the coming months of its genocidal assault on Gaza.

    Western media outlets, however, were very quick to take Israeli disinformation as fact. As he says, the press “was soon awash with lurid atrocity propaganda”. As he insists:

    These lies about rape and beheaded babies were swiftly debunked by The Electronic Intifada and a small group of other independent media – often at the cost of being smeared by mainstream media and banned or censored by social media giants like YouTube.

    The article includes insights that The Electronic Intifada gained through its investigations, media monitoring, video analysis, “a recent pro-Israel film broadcast by the BBC and Paramount+”, official Israeli statistics, and a UN report. It concludes that Israeli implementation of the Hannibal Directive was official, almost immediate, and deliberate. Also, it took place in the knowledge of the risk of “endangerment or harming of the lives of civilians in the region, including the captives themselves”.

    In fact, it is clear that it targeted civilians as well as soldiers, as it continues to do in Gaza today. And although it’s likely that Israeli forces killed hundreds of Israelis intentionally (in addition to in “unintentional crossfire”) and there has been a UN report confirming the use of this tactic, many people around the world are unaware of it. The reason, it stresses, is that “Israel has been engaged in an aggressive cover-up of its crimes against its own people”.

    Hamas overestimated “the value Israeli planners assigned to the lives of their own people”

    Winstanley writes that:

    If Hamas made a miscalculation in the planning of Operation Al-Aqsa Flood, it was perhaps to overestimate the value Israeli planners assigned to the lives of their own people.

    He adds that:

    multiple Israeli press reports have now confirmed that Hannibal was not only reactivated on 7 October – if it ever truly went away – but was actually extended to captured Israeli civilians on their way to Gaza.

    Released hostages, meanwhile, have described how “the main threat to their lives while they were held in Gaza was not Hamas, but Israeli attacks”. One, for example, described how “Hamas guards put mattresses over us on the floor to cover us, and then they covered us with their bodies to protect us from our own forces’ shooting”. Another stated, “We were sitting in tunnels and we were very afraid that, not Hamas, but Israel would kill us”. Another, meanwhile, insisted they “were shot at by a helicopter when we were on our way to Gaza”.

    One Israeli media outlet “reached the conclusion Hannibal was invoked from the top of Israel’s military hierarchy”. That, Winstanley writes:

    shows that the reactivation and expansion of the Hannibal Directive that day was not a matter of rogue individual troops or of simple chaos and confusion.

    It was a matter of policy.

    There were numerous officials who revealed this. A tank commander, for example, admitted probably firing on Israelis. A colonel, meanwhile, said Israel’s response to the Hamas attack “was a mass Hannibal”. And the military itself accepted that there had been an “immense and complex quantity” of “friendly fire” events.

    7 October was not how the media painted it

    As Winstanley points out, the Hamas attack on 7 October was not an ‘evil terrorist rampage’. The target was always the Israeli military on the border of Gaza – which human-rights experts had long called an ‘open-air prison‘. Civilians died, for a number of reasons, but Hamas “had been told not to target civilians during the assault”.

    One point Winstanley mentioned that caused a higher-than-expected civilian death toll was that Hamas intelligence were apparently unaware of the “Supernova” rave that was going on “less than three miles from the Re’im military base” – “the headquarters of the Israeli army’s Gaza Division – the number one target” of the attack. It was not a target, and even “Israeli intelligence has concluded that the Palestinians had no prior knowledge of the rave”. Supernova’s organisers had “coordinated with the local Israeli police force” but had not announced the location before 6 October.

    While it’s difficult to know how many people at the rave Israel killed and how many Palestinians killed, Winstanley says:

    What is known is that Israeli armed forces on site set up a roadblock at the main exit, causing a massive backlog of cars waiting to leave the site. Many ravers ended up fleeing on foot, east across the fields as the firefight broke out.

    Journalist William Van Wagenen, he says, has argued that “the roadblock likely led to Israeli forces unintentionally trapping some escaping ravers in a firefight”.

    The ‘widespread use of psychoactive drugs’ among ravers didn’t help to reduce the chaos, either.

    A UN report, meanwhile, has noted that “Israeli helicopters were present at the Nova site and may have shot at targets on the ground, including civilian vehicles”.

    Israel: difficulties counting the casualties

    There were hundreds of Israeli aircraft or drone attacks on “targets” near the border on 7 October. Instructions were reportedly to “shoot at everything”. One Israeli media investigation noted that, according to military investigators, of around 70 vehicles they examined that had been hit by Israeli forces, “at least in some of the cases, everyone in the vehicle was killed”. Winstanley says:

    It is unknown how many Israelis those 70 vehicles contained, but given what is known about other incidents, some cars probably contained several. These vehicles alone may have accounted for a very large number of Israeli civilian deaths.

    Looking at one car scrapyard, he notes that:

    Photos and drone footage of the scrapyard clearly showed many of the cars were completely flattened and twisted in a manner consistent with Israeli bombing from the air.

    Adding that it possibly contained “1,650 vehicles”, he stresses that:

    it does seem entirely plausible that Israel killed hundreds of the Israelis who died during the course of the offensive

    In one case in particular, survivors of one Israeli attack said “everyone else in and around the building was either shot or “burned completely” by the Israeli tank fire”. And as Winstanley highlights:

    Similar incidents happened elsewhere. But in most places, there were few survivors, especially of the aerial bombardments.

    Indeed, “the UN report lists a surprisingly high number of places where Hannibal attacks possibly or certainly took place”.

    We’ll probably never know the truth

    7 October 2023 resulted in “a maximum of 780 dead Israeli civilians”, Winstanley calculates. But how many did Israel kill, and how many did Palestinians kill? He insists “it is impossible to know without a truly independent international investigation”, but “Israel is blocking just such an investigation”.

    Because “very few autopsies were carried out”, “many bodies were prematurely buried”, and many destroyed Israeli cars “were crushed by Israeli authorities”, a lot of the potential evidence of Israeli military crimes no longer exists. The UN, however, “documented strong indications that the ‘Hannibal Directive’ was used in several instances on 7 October, harming Israelis at the same time as striking Palestinian militants”.

    It is crucial, as Winstanley suggests, that the media debate includes nuance. Because the propaganda around the events on 7 October helped to manufacture consent both at home and abroad for Israel’s genocidal attack on occupied Gaza that has killed at least 16,765 children in the last year. Highlighting Israel’s use of the Hannibal Directive on its own people on that day helps to set the record straight. And it helps to bring nuance back into a discussion full of hateful disinformation.

    Featured image via the Canary

    By Ed Sykes

    This post was originally published on Canary.

  • A Single Day of Genocide Would Be Too Much. What Then When It Lasts a Year?

    Today is a difficult day. Israel’s U.S.-sponsored war on Gaza has been relentlessly raging on for a whole year — with no end in sight. On October 7, 2023, Hamas and other resistance fighters broke through their open-air prison wall and launched a massive assault that killed 1,140 Israelis. They also took 250 hostages, of whom 101 remain in custody awaiting an elusive ceasefire and hostage…

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  • Atrocity Inc: How Israel Sells Its Destruction Of Gaza


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  • ‘Look at our suffering!’: Gaza’s message to the world after a year of genocide

    It’s been one year since Israel launched its genocidal war on Gaza, following the Hamas-led attacks on Oct. 7, 2023, and following 75 years of Israel’s Occupation of Palestine. More than half of the Gaza Strip’s buildings, businesses, roads, farms, hospitals, and schools have been completely destroyed. Over 41,000 people have been reported killed, with this number growing daily. To commemorate a year of what has been called “the most documented genocide in history,” TRNN asked some residents of Gaza to describe their year. This is what they told us.

    Producer: Belal Awad, Leo Erhardt
    Videographer: Ruwaida Amer, Mahmoud Al Mashharawi
    Video Editor: Leo Erhardt

    Transcript

    Narrator:
    It’s been one year since Israel launched its war on Gaza. More than half of the strip’s
    buildings, businesses, roads, farms, hospitals, and schools have been completely destroyed.
    Over 41 thousand people have been reported killed, with this number growing daily. The
    Real News network asked some residents of Gaza to describe their year. This is what they
    told us…

    Sami Isa Ramadan:
    No matter how much I try to explain, I couldn’t describe even 1% of what’s happened to us.
    In general, this war will be recorded in history. It should have its own title page in history. For the whole world, eh? Not only in the Gaza Strip, or Palestine. This war of Oct. 7, of the
    Israeli army on Gaza, needs to be studied in history, because schools, hospitals, buildings,
    homes, fishermen, farmers, workers, there was nothing that was not targeted straightaway.

    Narrator:
    Sami Isa Ramadan has been displaced four times since Oct. 7th and now lives amidst the
    rubble in a bombed-out building, in Deir Al Balah.

    Sami Isa Ramadan:
    I lost a brother — I don’t know if he’s in prison or dead. My siblings have been scattered.
    Three of them were injured. A missile struck our neighbor’s house and three of them were
    injured, and my father was killed. God rest his soul. I mean, it’s a catastrophe. Maybe the
    camera — you are filming a tiny clip, out of millions of hours. To tell you the truth, I’m tired. Truly tired, you know what I mean? And this is my suffering. Out of 2 million people, I’m just one person.

    Narrator:
    While it’s true that Sami is indeed only one of around 2.2 million residents of the strip, his
    experience does reflect the experiences of many of his fellow Gazans since October 7th.

    Sabreen Badwan:
    The first week of the war, the Israelis contacted us and said: “Your area is not safe, you must
    evacuate. This is a combat area.” They threw leaflets. At first, we didn’t want to move, but
    then when we saw most people leaving — it was like a sign of the day of judgment — If you
    were to see it, it was like the Nakba of 1948. I mean, I felt it was like the scenes of the 1948
    displacement that our ancestors lived through. We used to hear about it like an abstract
    dream and couldn’t believe it. Then we lived and experienced it, except harsher and more
    difficult.

    Narrator:
    A staggering 90% of Palestinians in Gaza have been displaced since October 7th, making it
    an almost universal experience. Sabreen Badwan is from Tel Al Hawa, and like everyone we
    spoke to, has moved multiple times attempting to find safety.

    Sabreen Badwan:
    I went to a house in Al Nuseirat, in the center of the Gaza strip. We spent a single night
    there. That same night we awoke in the middle of a massacre. The entire block was
    completely destroyed. From this day I was convinced the enemy was lying—there is no safe
    place. I decided to move to a UNWRA school because before this war, as we used to know,
    the UNWRA schools were safe.

    Narrator:
    According to UNRWA, Israeli forces have targeted a total of 190 UN-run facilities in the
    course of the war. That’s despite the agency sharing the coordinates for each of its locations
    well in advance. Two hundred and twenty UNRWA employees have been killed in Gaza over
    the last year, making this the deadliest war for UN employees in United Nations history.

    Sabreen Badwan:
    During this war, everything changed. We went to live in a school for around three months,
    then we were again warned to leave the area of the school because the Israelis told us it’s
    not safe, it’s deadly and dangerous. So we left the school terrified, not knowing where to go,
    as bombs were exploding. We were terrified. We didn’t know where to go. There was
    nowhere for us to go. We went to a house: we were bombed. We went to a school: we were
    bombed. Where should we go then? What do we do?

    Ni’ma Ramlawi:
    What should we do? Our entire house was flattened and we were displaced to Al Nuseirat,
    and from there we came here. They took us to the schools. We were in Al Razi and then
    they [the Israelis] took us.

    Narrator:
    Death has touched each and every person in Gaza since Oct. 7.

    Ni’ma Ramlawi:
    They hit our home, so we left — it collapsed on us. Our neighbors were killed. The entire
    block behind us was destroyed. Our house collapsed.

    Sabreen Badwan:
    My father was killed at the beginning of the war. This saddened and preoccupied me a lot.
    Especially because I couldn’t say goodbye to him. He was north of the Gaza river and I was
    here south of the Gaza river. So I couldn’t say farewell, and this impacted me and my mental state.

    Sami Isa Ramadan:
    The war has affected everyone. There isn’t a family in the Gaza Strip that hasn’t been
    injured by the occupation forces. The one who lost his dad, the one who lost his siblings,
    there’s no family — me, my family is small, and approximately 20 people have gone. This
    was my boys’ birthday party, in our modest and simple home.

    Narrator:
    The UN children’s agency has described Gaza as “a graveyard for children.” Children have
    died from bombs, bullets, disease, and malnutrition at an alarming rate. And mental health
    issues such as speech impediments and PTSD affect almost every child.

    Ni’ma Ramlawi:
    The war has affected children and young people badly.

    Sami Isa Ramadan:
    The children, my children, for example. For the basics, mosquitoes — we haven’t got a
    solution. Aside from the skin diseases that have spread, the epidemics that have affected
    the old and the young. As you can see, I’m sure you have seen the suffering of the children,
    especially the children.

    Ni’ma Ramlawi:
    What? After a year of war? What more do they want to happen to us? Hunger! Everyone is
    hungry. And they died of hunger. And with this war, they killed us and killed our children.
    They’re martyrs. They bombed our homes. There’s no house left for us to live in — neither
    us nor our children. Are we going to stay like this in tents? And the winter is coming, too.
    Look at how we are. Exhaustion and sickness— we are grown adults and we can’t manage
    our mental state. There’s children — my grandson has malnutrition grade 2 from the
    situation we are in.

    Narrator:
    Ruined infrastructure, open sewage, a lack of hospitals and medication, and communicable
    disease have now become a threat for the people of Gaza.

    Shohda Abu Ajweh:
    God has afflicted us, aside from the war, with another war: the war of diseases and no
    medications. I mean, my grandchildren are suffering from chicken pox, we haven’t found any medications. Not to mention the contaminated water and the open sewage. The Israelis
    targeted infrastructure on purpose to provoke the spread of disease. Right now the borders
    are closed. People are not receiving any aid, so people are suffering. They’re suffering from
    everything, from a lack of everything. We ask Allah to remove this affliction and to help all
    our people.

    Riadh al Drimli:
    Even if things were available, there’s no money to buy it. It’s really expensive! And there’s no income on top, I’m telling you. For example, I make 20 shekels ($5.30). What am I going to do with that 20 shekels ($5.30)? I can buy some drinking water or bring something for the house? It’s not enough!

    Narrator:
    Riad al Drimli used to work as an electrician, since October 7th, he was displaced alongside
    his family and is now selling falafel to try to make ends meet.

    Riad al Drimli:
    I mean, what can I say? A lot of suffering. From tent to tent and ants and worms. Maybe for
    someone living in the rubble of their destroyed house would probably be nicer than the tents, the sewage, the water, and all the problems. Feel for us! You Arabs: rise up against these oppressors. Look at our suffering! Forget about us: what about our children! Our daughters! People are being slaughtered – and they are okay watching us bleed?

    Marwan Ibrahim Salem:
    My message to the whole world — the Arab world, to Europe, to East to West — to all — is
    to stand with the oppressed people. Because this nation is oppressed. And oppression never
    lasts. I ask for an end to the war, and the return of people to their homes, and the rebuilding
    of our homes. That’s what I ask from the world.

    I hope to return to my home! Me and my wife. People want to return to their land! To return to Gaza city, to our neighborhood. To our families. To see who’s good, and who’s dead.

    Sami Isa Ramadan:
    To this day, the bodies of my relatives are still buried under the rubble, from
    the early days of the war. All the buildings you see here, they were bombed with people in them, they collapsed on people’s backs. On people’s heads. There’s no phone call, warning you: ‘Hello, you need to leave the house’ —- no —- the house is flattened with people still inside. This is a cowardly and savage army. It has no humanity.

    I have experienced the most bitter experience here. For me, the worst experience I have
    ever had is living in a tent. We are the living dead, here in this tent. A death sentence. We
    have been sentenced to death — they just haven’t carried out the execution. And our faith is
    in God. It’s in God’s hands.

  • Report from Beirut: Israel Intensifies Bombardment of Lebanon, Displacing 1.2 Million

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    Today marks both the first anniversary of the October 7 attack on Israel from the Gaza Strip and one week since Israel began its ground invasion of the neighboring country of Lebanon. Israel’s brutal military response to the Hamas-led October 7 incursion has shown no sign of slowing down as the United States, its primary supplier of military aid, continues to commit weapons, funding and rhetorical support to its deadly assault on Arab populations in Gaza, the West Bank and now Lebanon. Over 1,000 Lebanese civilians have been killed and over a million displaced as they flee the encroaching violence. From Beirut, we speak to Rima Majed, a professor at the American University of Beirut, who highlights the disruption to daily life that Israeli warfare has created. “This is really a huge catastrophe, and it’s not a humanitarian one. It is a political catastrophe, and it’s a social catastrophe. And this would not have happened … if it wasn’t for the [international] backing and the arming of Israel.”


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  • Israel takes losses in face to face S. Lebanon battles


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  • CNN reporter suggests Israel uses its population as human shields


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  • Nasrallah agreed to ceasefire before Israel killed him


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  • View From Gaza: This War Has Broken Me in Ways I Didn’t Think Possible

    Before October 7, 2023, I was Abdallah. Afterward, I’m still Abdallah, according to my ID, but I can’t recognize this new version of myself. Displaced by bombing from my home in eastern Rafah, a city in the southern Gaza Strip, to the al-Mawasi neighborhood of Khan Younis, I have lost so many loved ones to Israel’s attacks over the past year: I am mourning 60 family members…

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  • Laura Kuenssberg just ratcheted up the imperialist BBC propaganda for Israel

    The BBC’s Laura Kuenssberg is infamous for her terrible insights into British politics. As such, you may be unsurprised to learn that she also has terrible insights into Israel and Middle Eastern politics.

    That or – you know – she’s actively presenting a warped view of world events for the benefit of our political overlords:

    Excuse me, Kuenssberg?

    This is somehow the title of her latest blog:

    I’m sorry, but is anyone under the impression that the UK isn’t heavily involved in the Middle East?

    We start wars there all the time. According to the website American Security Project, this is a list of all the US’s bases there (and let’s not pretend the UK is anything other than America’s poodle at this point):

    Imagine how we’d feel if the above was a map of Europe and the bases were owned by a country you think is our enemy?

    If you’ve never imagined the situation in reverse, that’s thanks to the hard work of dedicated propagandists like Kuenssberg. This is how her blog begins, by the way:

    “Let’s be real, the war has started,” a former minister tells me. “What happens in the Middle East never stays in the Middle East.”

    Oh really? Maybe we shouldn’t be causing trouble over there, then? Maybe we shouldn’t arming Israel while it’s literally invading its neighbours? Maybe we shouldn’t be tolerating the mass deaths of innocents because we’ve decided they’re on the side of ‘terrorists’, even though Israel is literally pursuing a campaign of terror – of ethnic cleansing – of genocide?

    Kuenssberg on Israel: ‘complications’

    The current situation is fairly straightforward in that Israel is on a rampage of murder that it can only sustain with the benefit of weapons and money from the West.

    Kuenssberg, however, disagrees:

    So what can the UK do about a hellishly complicated situation, especially with a new government that is still finding its feet?

    This is a tried-and-tested trick of the propagandist – to convince people that nothing positive can happen because the situation is too ‘complicated’.

    To be fair, there’s a chance that Kuenssberg actually believes this, as she does seem to have a mind so shallow that an ant could wade through it without getting its socks wet. The British media is full of such nitwits, and many politicians know how to take advantage of their lack of curiosity, as an infamous Nazi once said:

    On Israel, Kuenssberg also seems to believe the following:

    The UK is deeply involved in providing humanitarian help in the region

    We’re not sure how “deeply involved” Britain could be, given that aid organisations recently said “Israel’s siege now blocks 83% of food aid reaching Gaza”. The organisations include CARE International, Save the Children, and Oxfam, and they further note:

    • 83% of required food aid does not make it into Gaza, up from 34% in 2023.This reduction means people in Gaza have gone from having an average of two meals a day to just one meal every other day. An estimated 50,000 children aged between 6-59 months urgently require treatment for malnutrition by the end of the year.
    • 65% of the insulin required and half of the required blood supply are not available in Gaza.
    • Availability of hygiene items has dropped to 15% of the amount available in September 2023. One million women are now going without the hygiene supplies they need.
    • Only around 1,500 hospital beds in Gaza remain operational, compared to around 3,500 beds in 2023 which was already well below sufficient to meet the needs of a population of more than 2 million people. By comparison, cities of similar size, such as Chicago and Paris average 5 to 8 times more beds than in Gaza.
    • 1.87 million people are in need of shelter with at least 60% of homes destroyed or damaged (January 2024). Yet tents for around just 25,000 people have entered Gaza since May 2024.

    Given her interest in ‘complications’, you’d think that this was the sort of thing Kuenssberg would be interested in pointing out – the complications caused by Israel violating international law. Instead, her interests are as follows:

    Diplomatic opportunities
    Then when it comes to the diplomacy, a former senior official tells me the UK is “thinking about the off ramps,” – in other words, encouraging all the players, not just its allies, to think about how to bring the conflict to an end, and what a post-war settlement might look like.

    The UK has specific opportunities – there are things that it can do that the US can’t, with an embassy still in the Iranian capital Tehran, for example, whereas the Americans haven’t had any formal diplomatic relations with Iran since 1980.

    Iran has launched missiles at Israel twice in this conflict; once in retaliation for Israel striking their consulate, and once in retaliation for Israel assassinating the leader of their allies Hezbollah. Neither of the strikes were targeted at civilians, in stark contrast to the Israeli attacks on Gaza, Lebanon, Syria, and Yemen. As such the idea that this all stops because the British ambassador to Tehran is just really good at diplomacy is a fantasy.

    Israel is on a rampage, and it only stops when we stop funding them.

    “Diplomacy matters”

    If you don’t believe that Kuenssberg and the BBC have the same biases as our imperial US taskmasters, just look at how they interview the two sides:

    Kuenssberg’s piece ends with what must be the most ridiculous point of all:

    Diplomacy matters, whether its impact is easy to measure or not. A government insider suggests without the UK, US and Western allies urging restraint on a daily basis, there is a parallel universe where the conflicts might already have boiled over into a war far worse than anything we have seen so far. “Everybody has been working incredibly hard to try and prevent a spillover,” a senior figure says.

    That’s right; as bad as things seem, just imagine how much worse things would be if we weren’t urging restraint? All those dead civilians would be twice as dead as they are now; all those blown up hospitals would be craters twice as deep.

    If nothing else, the point does reveal something; our government may call Israel its ally, but even they think its capable of even worse than what we’ve seen so far.

    And yet the weapons continue to flow on a river of blood and propaganda.

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  • On the ground investigating Iran’s strikes on Israel


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  • Israel Expands Lebanon Bombing Campaign, Plans Further Attacks on Iran and Gaza

    Israeli forces continued attacks on the outskirts of Beirut and in southern Lebanon on Saturday. There were 13 Israeli strikes on the southern suburbs of Beirut overnight and another five on Saturday, one of which may have been targeted at paramedics, according to Al Jazeera. The number of casualties is not yet clear. “There is increasing destruction and it’s clear that complete blocks…

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  • Unprecedented Israeli Airstrike in West Bank Kills 20, Wiping Out Entire Family

    Israel killed 20 Palestinians in an airstrike on Tulkarem refugee camp in the northern West Bank late on Thursday, October 3, the Palestinian Health Ministry reported. Several children and an entire family were among the dead, as the strike targeted a three-floor residential building in the center of the camp. The strike, conducted with an Israeli fighter jet using a heavy missile…

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  • One year and climbing: Israel responsible for record journalist death toll

    One year in, Israel’s conduct of the war in Gaza has exacted an unprecedented and horrific toll on Palestinian journalists and the region’s media landscape.

    At least 128 journalists and media workers, all but five of them Palestinian, have been killed – more journalists than have died in the course of any year since CPJ began documenting journalist killings in 1992. All of the killings, except two, were carried out by Israeli forces. CPJ has found that at least five journalists were specifically targeted by Israel for their work and is investigating at least 10 more cases of deliberate targeting. Two Israeli journalists were killed in the October 7, 2023, attack by Hamas.

    The killings, along with censorship, arrests, the continued ban on independent media access into Gaza, persistent internet shutdowns, the destruction of media outlets, and displacement of the Gaza media community, have severely restricted reporting on the war and hampered documentation. However, as of October 4, 2024, CPJ’s research was able to confirm the following:

    Unprecedented numbers of killed journalists

    128 journalists killed

    At least 128 journalists and media workers have been killed since the war began.

    These 128 killings include:
    123

    Palestinian journalists and media workers, in addition to three Lebanese and two Israeli journalists.

    11%

    of those killed were female, and the majority of all killed were under 40 years old.

    75%

    of Palestinians were killed by Israeli airstrikes; the rest were killed by other types of fire, including drone strikes, tank fire, shootings, and fire of unknown type.

    5

    At least five of the killings were targeted murders of journalists by the IDF, four in Gaza and one in Lebanon.

    4

    of the murdered journalists targeted were wearing press insignia at the time they were killed.

    More journalists and media workers have died in the Israel-Gaza war than in any other year since CPJ began documenting journalist killings in 1992. By comparison, 56 journalists were killed in Iraq in 2006 – the next deadliest year. The targeted or indiscriminate killing of journalists, if committed deliberately or recklessly, is a war crime.

    CPJ is investigating at least 10 additional cases where the IDF may have specifically targeted the journalists. (See below for an explanation of how CPJ defines “murder” in its methodology.)

    Arrests and allegations of torture of detained journalists

    69 Palestinian journalists arrested

    Since the war, at least 69 Palestinian journalists have been arrested; Israel arrested 66, and Palestinian authorities arrested three.

    43

    Palestinian journalists remain detained by Israel.

    Of this record number being imprisoned:
    Most

    were detained by Israel in the West Bank and held without charge under Israel’s administrative detention law, which allows for indefinite renewal of detention orders.

    10

    of the 43 journalists still in custody are being held under this law.

    5

    CPJ has documented cases of five journalists alleging torture and mistreatment while imprisoned. 

    On a per capita basis, Israeli authorities now hold the highest number of detained journalists in the world in a given year over the past two decades, followed by Turkey, Iran, and China. There are numerous accounts of Israeli-held journalists being subjected to violence, humiliation, and mistreatment during their detention. 

    Censorship and blocked access to Gaza

    4,000

    Estimated number of international journalists accredited by Israel to cover the war.

    1

    Number of international journalists able to enter Gaza to independently cover the war since October 7.

    70+

    Number of news outlets and civil society organizations that have urged Israel to grant independent access to Gaza

    70

    Approximate number of press facilities that the Palestinian Journalists’ Syndicate reported have been destroyed in the war.

    5+

    Number of media offices shut down permanently or temporarily by Israel.

    In Israel, press freedom has been curtailed by the passage of a new law that empowers the government to ban media outlets, an increasing number of banned articles, government officials’ anti-press rhetoric, alleged attempts to control news outlets, and attacks on both international and local reporters in the West Bank and Israel, among other threats. 

    Impunity and lack of accountability

    Zero

    Members of the IDF held to account for killing, targeting, attacking, or abusing journalists

    Unknown

    Number of investigations underway into the killing of journalists or other alleged war crimes by the IDF, due to the IDF’s lack of transparency about the status of investigations.

    CPJ methodology

    CPJ uses a variety of research methods to determine whether someone meets our criteria for inclusion in our databases of killed and jailed journalists. This includes internet-based research on the individual’s output; phone or email interviews conducted with family members, friends, and colleagues, and requests for information from relevant authorities. We require at least two independent sources on any information we publish. This methodology can mean that our numbers may differ from other sources at any given time.

    CPJ only classifies someone as having been murdered when CPJ is able to determine with reasonable certainty that someone has been killed deliberately in relation to their journalistic work. This methodology is longstanding and is applied globally. Other designations should not be taken to indicate that the person was killed lawfully.

    Read more about our methodology here and here.


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  • US Health Workers Back From Gaza Estimate Death Toll Is at Least 119,000

    As the anniversary of the beginning of Israel’s genocide in Gaza approaches, a group of nearly 100 American health care workers back from Gaza have estimated that the true death toll in Gaza is at least four times higher than the official reported count, if not far higher. In a devastating letter sent to President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris this week, 99 health workers who…

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  • Report: State Dept. Ignored Objection to Israel Arms Sale Early in Gaza Genocide

    Last year, just days into Israel’s genocide in Gaza, a bureau within the State Department raised objections to over a dozen arms shipments to Israel, citing “gross violations” of human rights by the unit slated to receive them. But these objections were ignored, a new report finds, and that unit would later be involved in the single deadliest massacre of the genocide so far.

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  • Beirut-Based Journalist: “It Is Really Unclear What the Endgame for Israel Is”

    Israel is further escalating its war on Lebanon, carrying out its heaviest airstrikes so far on Beirut overnight in the densely populated southern suburbs. Lebanon’s health minister said Thursday at least 2,000 people have been killed since the start of the Israeli attacks on Lebanon, including at least 127 children, most of them in the past two weeks. More than 1.2 million Lebanese have been…

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  • Eric Adams Allegedly Took Bribes to Erase the Genocide That Killed My Ancestors

    New York City Mayor Eric Adams is facing a sweeping indictment on federal corruption charges accusing him of taking bribes, committing fraud and soliciting illegal foreign campaign donations. The charges, which involve a long-running conspiracy with Turkish officials, allege that Adams accepted lavish gifts and campaign contributions in exchange for political favors…

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  • State Dept Approved Arms Deals to Israel Despite Repeated Objections From Staff

    In late January, as the death toll in Gaza climbed to 25,000 and droves of Palestinians fled their razed cities in search of safety, Israel’s military asked for 3,000 more bombs from the American government. U.S. Ambassador to Israel Jack Lew, along with other top diplomats in the Jerusalem embassy, sent a cable to Washington urging State Department leaders to approve the sale, saying there was no…

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  • Lebanon War “Giving More Space” for Israel to Keep Up Slaughter in Gaza: Journalist Akram al-Satarri


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  • The Times just did the most racist propaganda for Israel yet

    After a year of corporate media bias, now the Times has shown its true colours with a front page which amounted to nothing more than racism and spin for Israel over its assault on Lebanon.

    The Times: spinning for Israel

    The headline stated:

    Eight Israeli soldiers die in battle with Hezbollah

    This comes after Israeli strikes on Lebanon which have killed over 1,400 people and displaced 900,000. That is 20% of the population. Conveniently, the Times failed to mention that part:

    As the Canary previously reported, Israel’s colonial government has consistently rejected or undermined  peace efforts (as it has historically). This has only escalated the conflict further afield. It has assassinated people in the Iranian consulate in Syria, in Iran, and in Lebanon.

    Whitewashing crimes in Lebanon

    Over the last year, the corporate media – including the Times – have whitewashed Israel’s crimes against humanity. Proving once again, that western corporate media outlets do not value Palestinian – and now Lebanese – lives. In other words, brown (as with Black) lives don’t matter to the rancidly racist establishment propagandists for the capitalist, colonial status quo:

    Complicity in Israel’s crimes

    As the Canary has previously reported, western media outlets have continuously published coverage dripping in bias – and by extension, complicity in Israel’s ethnic cleansing in Palestine:

    Back in March, the New Arab conducted an analysis on UK mainstream media coverage of Israel’s genocide in Gaza. In particular, it looked at articles by the Times, the Telegraph, the Sun, and the Daily Mail. Notably, it identified that:

    in their headlines, all four sources exhibit bias against Palestinians in the following three ways: uniquely deploying a vast amount of emotive language when describing Israeli suffering, amplifying Israeli justifications for violence, and qualifying Palestinian deaths.\

    Echoing these findings, researchers at the Centre for Media Monitoring (CfMM), an arm of the Muslim Council of Britain, produced a report on UK media coverage of Israel’s genocide against Palestinians. This research looked more comprehensively at the UK press, assessing 28 outlets.

    Again, it stated how:

    One noticeable feature of this coverage has been the use of imagery which has shown Israeli aggression or Palestinian suffering and headlines which have favoured an Israeli position or narrative. The dehumanisation of Palestinians in this respect starts with the minimisation of their suffering, effectively rendering them invisible despite the huge numbers of those killed whilst focusing solely on the deaths of Israelis.

    The Times is sitting comfortably among a Zionist propaganda ecosystem – and they are culpable for Israel’s war crimes:

    Blatant racism

    When eight Israeli soldiers die whilst literally in the middle of committing an act of war – invading a sovereign country – they get a whole front page.

    Where’s the front page for the over 1,400 people Israel has murdered in Lebanon, so far?

    Or the 42,334 Palestinians Israel have ethnically cleansed?

    Every single media article that ignores those numbers in favour of reporting on the deaths of murderers, is responsible for the genocide continuing as long as it has:

    One poster on X expressed how it clearly demonstrated the right-wing corporate media’s transparent hierarchy of human life in action:

    It’s like watching a reel of Reddit AITA rebranded, ‘Am I The Bad Guy’? If you’re ignoring an occupying state committing genocide and constant war crimes, then yes, you’re the ‘bad guy’:

    It has been nearly a year of shitrags like the Times getting away with this unconscionably biased reporting on Israel’s beyond awful genocide. Yet, after it has murdered tens of thousands in plain sight – it continues to make itself out as the victim.

    No matter how many times people point out its second-rate reporting, it’s never going to sink in for establishment mouthpieces like the Times. Because it has spent this time dehumanising Palestinians to such an extent, it’s genuinely believable that to them, Arab, brown, Muslim lives really don’t matter.

    Unless of course, they’re rich dictators and ‘friends’ of the US, UK, and Western imperial project in the Middle East.

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