There are few images of Gaza casualties on Israeli TV, widening the gulf in perspective between Israel and the outside world.
Every evening on TV news, Israelis get the latest on the Gaza war—cease-fire and hostage talks, Israeli military casualties, battlefield analysis and coverage of the Oct. 7 attacks by Islamist militant group Hamas that sparked the conflict.
One thing that is almost always missing: the people of Gaza.
Israel is watching one war unfold in Gaza, while much of the rest of the world is seeing a different one, with footage of the destruction caused by Israeli airstrikes in the densely populated enclave and sometimes gruesome images of Palestinians killed in the fighting.
That split screen helps explain the widening gulf between an Israel that feels isolated and misunderstood and outsiders who have shifted their attention from the horrors of Oct. 7 to the damage inflicted by Israel’s campaign to destroy Hamas. That gap in perspective could grow in coming weeks if Israel’s military expands its effort to destroy the remaining Hamas battalions in the crowded southern Gaza city of Rafah.
Nearly two-thirds of Israeli Jews said they had seen a few or no images of the damage, according to an April survey by the Israel Democracy Institute, a nonpartisan research center. Just over a third said they had seen a lot, either through Israeli media or social media.
The figure of 34,000 dead is straight-up Hamas propaganda. There is no independent corroboration, and zero reason to believe the figure is remotely accurate.
This is but one glaring example. The entire article has a heavy anti-Israel slant. Why?
The IDF has dropped thousands of bombs on urban areas of Gaza. How could it not be at least 34,000 dead? Seems rather silly to claim the figure is propaganda when anyone with a pair of eyes can see the devastation on TV.
So if Hamas tells you half a million innocent people died, you will believe that as well because CNN and MSNBC keep showing you a lot of rubble?
What you see on TV is propaganda for the most part. Just a couple of days ago, the UN (OCHA) revised the published number of women and children killed downward by almost half. Never mind that they count young men of fighting age as children.
Israel doesn’t allow independent journalists inside Gaza and has killed 90+ Palestinians journalists.
If you include the people the IDF has buried in mass graves, or the people buried in the rubble, the number is much higher.
Fun fact, Gaza has more debris than Ukraine, even though Ukraine’s front lines are much larger and the war has been ongoing for much longer. Bibi is even worse than Putin
I feel for the truly innocent but if 75% voted for Hamas they are just as responsible. Miles of tunnels versus schools and hospital investment the people knew this was building
"Israeli TV shows few to no images of Gaza casualties and destruction caused by airstrikes, widening the gulf in perspective between Israel and the rest of the world."
Conversely, numerous videos showing Hamas's pride in the October 7th massacre are still showing on YouTube and Columbia University Campus.
Had television been widely an available would there have been coverage of the aftermath in Hiroshima?
War is ugly and brutal………and unfortunately, in this case, necessary.
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