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By Emily Rose
JERUSALEM (Reuters) -The increasing readiness between the Israeli media to explore the humanitarian crisis in Gaza has evaporated in recent weeks after the armed group Hamas released videos of two meager Israeli hostages.
In late July, while Jazan Jasanz’s photos sparked an international protest, some Israeli press and broadcasters began reporting reports on the worsening conditions there, and urged a more powerful response.
Unit Levy, the main news broadcaster of Channel 12, described the humanitarian crisis in Gaza as “moral failure” on the air, heads of some universities and the national memorial of the Holocaust, appealed to the government to help Ghazan Al -Ja’a.
During the 22 months of the war, the Israeli media focused on shock and influencing the Israelis in the Hamas attack on October 7, 2023, which, according to Israeli roaming, was killed about 1,200 people and took 251 hostages. The coverage focused on the fate of the hostages and the losses of the Israeli army.
Some Israelis welcomed Levi’s comment and a series of reports that discuss the circumstances in Gaza as evidence of the preparation for the study of the impact of the war on Palestinian civilians.
But the mood in Israel was severely harden when Hamas released, on July 31, a video of Rom Brablyvski, the 21 -year -old Israeli hostage. This was followed three days after a video of EvyaTar David, 24, who said he was forced to dig his grave.
Videos – which one of the Palestinian sources said, said was designed to show the terrible influence of the aid -restricted aid flows – with reverse results, and to close the growing sympathy in Israel towards civilians there.
Amid international condemnation of Hamas, thousands of demonstrators moved to the streets in Israel to demand the immediate return of the hostages. About 50 hostages are still in Gaza, but only about 20 of them are believed to be alive.
“They have no ability to try the pain of the other side,” said Uri Dagon, Vice President of Yisrael Hayom, in the Israel newspaper on a large scale.
“I know this seems terrible, but it is the truth,” he said.
Dagon accused the foreign media of falling into a “campaign of lies” about hunger in Gaza: while his paper published articles on suffering there, he confirmed that Hamas was responsible. He asked why foreign outlets were not given pictures of the meager Gazans with the same wool for EvyATAR DAVID.
“I suggest the senior editors in the international press to review themselves, and only then discuss how the Israeli press runs itself.”
Denial hunger
October 7, which showed that most Palestinians agreed to the attack sow anger in Israel. Videos from Ghazan flourish around the hostages in the wake of the direct raid, photographing them on their mobile phones, spitting them and also nourishing them permanent discontent.
Harril Corhev, the first researcher at the Moshe Dayan Center at Tel Aviv University specializing in the Palestinian media and society, said that such incidents have made it difficult for many Israelis to feel sympathetic to people in Gaza.
While the international media, which was prevented by Israel from entering Gaza, relied on Palestinian journalists, many Israelis do not mention their reports. Some cite the lack of freedom of the press in Gaza under the rule of Hamas.
“I don’t think there is a famine in Gaza,” said Ort Maimon, 28, a lawyer from Tel Aviv. “I don’t think the situation there is perfect or very good, but I don’t think there is a famine.”
The Gaza Ministry of Health says that 222 people have passed away due to hunger and malnutrition, including 101 children, since the war began.
The right -wing channel has allocated 14 coverage in recent weeks to discredit some reports of children who are starving. When a child was discovered in a photo on her front page in the Daily Express newspaper in Britain, an existing health condition was discovered, the reaction of some Israeli ports was angry.
A poll conducted by the Israel Institute for Democracy, a research center based in Jerusalem, found that 78 % of the Jewish Israelis believe that Israel is making a great effort to avoid Palestinian suffering, while only 15 % believe that Israel can do more and not choose it.
The Israeli attack makes reports in Gaza risky. According to the Palestinian Journalists Syndicate, a professional body, Israel has killed more than 230 journalists in Gaza since November. Reuters could not independently check these numbers.
Israel deliberately denies targeting journalists and says that many of the dead were members of armed groups operating under the guise of the press.
On Sunday, the Israeli army said that the island’s journalist was killed in an air strike: 28 -year -old people accused people of being the Hamas cell commander. Al -Sharif had rejected the accusations that Israel made before killing him, and the lawsuits said that Al -Sharif was targeted for his reports.
More than 61,000 Palestinians were killed by the military campaign of Israel, according to Gaza’s health officials
Criticism of the government
Opinion polls have found that about 70 % of the Israeli public wanted Israel to see a contract to release the hostages, even if that means ending the war immediately.
Several Israeli media have criticized the Netanyahu government for its failure to return the hostages to the home or to issue a clear plan for Gaza after the conflict. Among the most frank critics in the left -wing newspaper Haaretz, which has also published significant reports of suffering in Gaza, including articles of investigation into the army’s operations there.
In November, the cabinet in Netanyahu-which includes advanced parties on the extreme right-approved a ban on officials speaking to Haritz and boycotting the government declaration of the paper, accusing of supporting “state enemies in the middle of the war.”
The Israeli Prime Minister’s office refused to comment on this story.
Netanyahu’s ministers also submitted a proposal to the summary of Channel 11, the public broadcaster, who criticized a Likud party spokesman for his service in the Israeli radical morale and damage. Some media experts have warned that this may have a chilling effect on the government’s media coverage.
Asa Shapira, head of marketing and advertising studies at Tel Aviv University, said that the actions of the government affect what the Israeli channels decided to show.
He said that while the liberal decisions to focus on the fate of the Israeli hostages were in response to the general concern, there was also a fear of attracting government rejection.
(Participated in additional reports, Nidal Al -Munabi in Cairo and Michel Yakov Itzaki, Jerusalem, written by Michael Georgy; edited by Daniel Flynn)
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