🩸 Silence as Complicity.
In times of war, the first casualty is not always the truth—it is often the people whose suffering the truth is supposed to protect.
Since October 2023, Gaza has endured a brutal onslaught. Bombs rain on hospitals, schools, and homes. Over 62,000 Palestinians have been killed, many of them children. The world watches, and the media—those entrusted with bearing witness—looks away or worse, repeats the lies that justify the slaughter.
When the Israeli military claimed that Hamas was operating from beneath Al-Shifa Hospital, the largest medical facility in Gaza, there was no proof—just a statement from the IDF. Yet, without hesitation or scrutiny, CNN, BBC, The New York Times, and countless others carried the narrative across the globe like couriers of sanctioned propaganda. No questions asked. No evidence required.
“The Western corporate media is not just failing to report the truth—it is complicit in genocide.”
— Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territories
The IDF turned Al-Shifa into a battlefield. Its forces surrounded and raided it. Incubators failed. Premature babies died. Doctors pleaded for help. The hospital—once a sanctuary for the wounded—became a symbol of siege and despair. But the headlines didn’t tell that story. They parroted: “IDF Claims Hamas Command Center Under Hospital.”
No images. No tunnels. Just a narrative. A justification.
“In Gaza, it’s not a war. It’s a massacre. It’s not a battle. It’s an execution.”
— Norman Finkelstein, Gaza: An Inquest into Its Martyrdom
This is not journalism. It is manufacturing consent. It is the deliberate construction of an illusion to sanitize crimes against humanity and bury the screams of children beneath a layer of moral anesthesia.
“The role of the media in war is not to inform. It is to manufacture consent.”
— Chris Hedges, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist
Mainstream media has not simply failed to challenge the powerful—it has become the power. By recycling unverified military claims as fact, it turns public opinion into a weapon. It frames an occupying force as a victim. It paints slaughter as self-defense. It narrates genocide as a conflict. It shifts the lens from the graveyards of Gaza to the fears of Tel Aviv.
And so, truth dies first. Then the children. Then the memory of what really happened—rewritten, reworded, erased.
“What distinguishes Gaza is not the scale of suffering, but the scale of indifference to that suffering.”
— Norman Finkelstein
Behind every sanitized headline lies the blood of a child. Behind every passive phrase—*“clashes erupted,” “Israel retaliated,” “Hamas-controlled Gaza”—*is a journalist who chose safety over truth, access over accountability.
Francesca Albanese did not mince words:
“The genocide in Gaza is being livestreamed, and it is not just the bombs that are killing people—it is the silence of the international community and the media's active role in distorting the truth.”
— Francesca Albanese
This is not just Israel’s war. It is our moral reckoning. The genocide in Gaza is not just powered by bombs and drones—it is powered by silence, euphemism, and editorial cowardice.
History will ask: Where were you when Gaza burned?
But more importantly: What did you say when lies were told in your name?
The world will not forget Gaza.
But it will remember—who told the truth…
and who helped bury it.
#FreePalestine | #GazaGenocide | #MediaComplicity | #EndTheOccupation
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