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SvennoJ on 06 April 2024
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Inside the genocide – Six months in Gaza

With international reporters locked out, Palestinian journalists have made huge sacrifices to keep the world informed of the unprecedented killing and destruction in Gaza. More media workers have been killed by Israel since October 7 than in any other conflict in modern history.

Al Jazeera’s The Listening Post spent time with three Al Jazeera journalists between February and March 2024 to learn what it’s been like to cover the deadly war.


 

Palestinian journalists call for boycott of White House Correspondents’ Dinner

Palestinian journalists are asking members of the US media to boycott the highly anticipated event on April 27 “as an act of solidarity with us – your fellow journalists – as well as with the millions of Palestinians currently being starved in Gaza”.

“The toll exacted on us for merely fulfilling our journalistic duties is staggering. We are subjected to detentions, interrogations, and torture by the Israeli military, all for the ‘crime’ of journalistic integrity,” the appeal says.

The journalists stress that the “White House Correspondents’ Dinner is an embodiment of media manipulation, trading journalistic ethics for access. For journalists to fraternise at an event with President Biden and Vice President Harris would be to normalise, sanitise, and whitewash the administration’s role in genocide.”

According to a preliminary count from the Committee to Protect Journalists, at least 95 journalists and media workers have been killed since Israel began its war on Gaza.

The US media is complicit in the genocide, I doubt they'll have the decency to send a message to Biden. It will show exactly where they stand though, keep sucking the Aipac teet.

Today on CNN, 4 articles about the hostages, zero about the Gaza genocide reaching 6 months, and still calling it the Gaza 'crisis'



Here’s a look at the war on Gaza in numbers, 6 months in

The war has stretched on for half a year and has become one of the most destructive, deadly, and intractable conflicts of the 21st century. Since October 7, Israel has pummelled the Gaza Strip, displacing the vast majority of the population and causing many to flee to Gaza’s southernmost city, Rafah.

Here’s a look at the war in numbers:

  • Palestinians killed in Gaza: 33,137
  • Children killed in Gaza: more than 13,000
  • Palestinians killed in the occupied West Bank: 456
  • Palestinians currently displaced in Gaza: 1.7 million (70 percent of the population)
  • Percentage of buildings likely damaged/destroyed: 55.9 percent
  • Percentage of homes likely damaged: more than 60 percent
  • Percentage of school buildings damaged: 90 percent
  • Hospitals that are functioning: 10/36
  • Palestinian civilians facing “catastrophic” food insecurity, according to the UN: 1.1 million
  • Percentage of northern Gaza children under the age of two who are acutely malnourished: 31 percent
  • Percentage of students out of school: 100 percent
  • Mosques damaged: 227
  • Churches damaged: 3

 

Herzog marks six months of war with tribute to army, Israeli public

Israeli President Isaac Herzog has marked “six months of a bloody and difficult war” in a long post on X in which he paid tribute to the people who lost their lives in the October 7 attacks and the families of the captives.

He also hailed the Israeli military, stating, “We have an army that will stand against every enemy, near and far.”

He concluded the post by saying, “For half a year I have seen Israeli society in all its glory: The mutual responsibility on the front and at home – despite all the disagreements – the commitment to life, the closeness to others, the unique Israeli resilience.”

Herzog living inside his own delusional universe

Large demonstrations under way in Tel Aviv

Large demonstrations in Tel Aviv’s Democracy Square are currently being held by the families of Israeli captives and members of the public, who are calling for early elections and the dismissal of Netanyahu’s government.

Demonstrations aimed at the prime minister’s handling of the negotiations around the captives held in Gaza have become a regular occurrence in both Tel Aviv and Jerusalem since the early months of the war.

Today’s demonstrations come as ceasefire negotiations – which include discussions about the release of the captives – are set to take place in Cairo, with representatives from Hamas and mediated by Qatar, Egypt and the US.

Below, video verified by Al Jazeera, shows the crowd forming in Tel Aviv: