How a lack of independent reporting is helping prolong Israel’s war on Gaza
This week in Gaza began – as so many have – with more massacres of Palestinians.
But those scenes of mass murder and forced displacement fail to make headlines on most Western news channels, and certainly not in Israeli media. The government in Israel has tight control over the news narrative and has barred journalists from operating independently.
This means what the Israelis see on their screens is often a distorted version of the war – one that amplifies Israeli victimhood and silences Palestinian suffering.
Israeli weapons firm reports ‘substantial growth’, record orders
Elbit Systems, one of Israel’s biggest defence contractors, has tracked a 14.4 percent increase in third-quarter revenue year on year as Israel’s military demands more products for its wars on Gaza and Lebanon.
The Haifa-based firm’s order backlog has “hit a record high of over $22 billion” providing “stability and resilience for the company for years to come,” CEO Bezhalel Machlis said in a statement.
Elbit supplies weapons and equipment to Israel’s Defence Ministry, including surveillance and attack drones, artillery, munitions and high-powered lasers.
An Elbit Hermes 450 drone was used in an attack that killed seven aid workers from World Central Kitchen in the central Gaza Strip in April this year, Israeli newspaper Haaretz reported.
A protester holds a sign saying ‘Elbit’s business: blood’ at a protest outside a weapons sales fair in Melbourne, Australia on September 12
