There’s a persistent effort in Israeli media to push the narrative denying there’s hunger in Gaza.
Sections of Israeli media and the foreign ministry are continuing to insist that photos of emaciated children in Gaza are fake, or only show children with pre-existing health conditions.
On Wednesday, Israel’s media highlighted a clarification issued by the New York Times, external that a child whose photo was featured in an article about the hunger crisis in Gaza had a pre-existing health condition.
A headline in the centrist Maariv daily said, external: “The fake on the front page - The truth is far behind: The New York Times is laughing at Israel.”
The popular right-wing Channel 14 News in particular has portrayed reports of hunger as “Hamas propaganda”.
Former MP Yulia Shamalov-Berkovich said on the channel that it was necessary to have a state commission investigate the conduct of media “to find out who was paying them”.
A headline displayed on the screen said “fake ‘hunger’ in the media”.
Other outlets, like Channel 12 News, have reported, external the Israeli government assessments that Qatar was behind what it described as a “Hamas campaign” to amplify the "hunger crisis in Gaza”.
I think that Gaza faces an existential crisis. There exists however a vaccum in news reporting (accurate news reporting however).
Mostly to do with Israel and their barbaric genocidal actions.
If you look at the larger picture though , the innocents are being killed because there are groups like Hamas, PA which have taken over the very legitimate Palestine nationhood aspirations and have milked every cent of money and blood out of it.
The six nation war effectively decided wha the future of Palestine is. Anything being done now is just prolonging the inevitable
Diplomatic recognition inherently is, but the map of nations that recognize Palestine has long had the West as a bloc. In a matter of weeks it may be down to almost none.
