© Omar El-Qattaa / AFPAn injured man sits in front of a smoldering building in the aftermath of an Israeli strike on Gaza City on October 26, 2023
Since October 7, when the Hamas attack on Israeli territory and civilians triggered a destructive bombing campaign against Gaza, Palestinian civilians have been struggling to get the full extent of their plight represented in Western media.
Whether it be British state-media, the BBC, stating that Israelis are "killed," while Palestinians
simply "die", or CNN, whose reporter had to
publicly apologize for "confirming" Israeli reports about babies being beheaded by Hamas, the Western media has displayed shocking bias and double-standards when reporting on the current Gaza-Israel war. Even when a Reuters journalist, Issam Abdallah, was killed along the Lebanese-Israeli border on October 13, the outlet itself
wouldn't even say who committed the strike, instead writing that
"missiles fired from the direction of Israel" struck him and six other journalists.
There are few spaces in the Western corporate and state-funded broadcast media where a balanced and neutral approach is taken towards the current war in Gaza. Merely questioning Israel's right to respond in the way it has chosen, indiscriminately bombing residential areas and openly blocking humanitarian aid into Gaza, is being treated as mutiny, let alone an honest discussion on what led up to the Hamas attack on October 7. Calls for a ceasefire are being labeled as radical and unacceptable. A top State Department official, Josh Paul, amongst others,
has resigned from the US government in opposition to this.
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