And now Israel is taking steps to ensure there won’t be an independent investigation, for Al-Ahli or…
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Al-Ahli hospital bombing: Israel performing its usual post-atrocity routine
There is already a large body of academic research suggesting mainstream Western news media sympathise with Israel and largely ignore or downplay its human rights violations against Palestinians.
Over the first 10-days of the current crisis, Western media behaved as anticipated. Outlets privileged Israeli point of views, suppressed Palestinian voices, and repeatedly talked of “Israeli self-defence” and “Palestinian aggression”.
In the days before the hospital bombing, BBC News ran multiple reports about alleged Hamas tunnels under public buildings, including schools and hospitals. It doesn’t need much explaining how this kind of uncritical repeating of Israeli propaganda by Western media organisations helps Israel perform its deceptive post-atrocity-routine effectively.
When the dust settles, independent investigations will inevitably show that Israel, which had already been bombing across Gaza’s residential buildings, mosques, banks, and universities, and had already killed thousands of Gaza Palestinians, including 750 children, is responsible for bombing al-Ahli Hospital.
And now Israel is taking steps to ensure there won’t be an independent investigation, for Al-Ahli or any future war crimes:
Israel set to ban Al Jazeera after attorney general approval
Israel has barred anyone from leaving or entering Gaza, which it has put under complete siege, cutting off water, electricity and food.
International coverage of the Israeli bombardment, therefore, has fallen to media organisations already on the ground, such as Al Jazeera.