israeli double standards are without equal;

On one of the deadliest days in Gaza since the Israeli war began in 2023, air strikes killed more than 400 Palestinians on Tuesday, including more than 180 children and 90 women, in a matter of hours.

The attacks, which violated the ceasefire agreement, were carried out during the holy month of Ramadan. But they were covered differently in Israeli media compared with the rest of the world.

Avi Ashkenazi, a military correspondent for the right-wing Maariv newspaper, wrote that “Israel wanted to hit as many Hamas members as possible in the first strike of the attack”. He added that the Muslim fasting month “helped to carry out the mission”.

“The Shin Bet and Military Intelligence have prepared the addresses where Hamas members are supposed to be found and hold the night suppers,” Ashkenazi wrote.

Aside from the military perspective reported in Israeli media, the attack and its bloody results were covered without reference to the number of children killed. In some cases, all those killed were labelled as terrorists.

Three senior Israeli military correspondents reported the bombing similarly, saying the army targeted “mid-level and senior Hamas commanders and officials”.

Orly Noy, a journalist from Israeli news site Local Call, told Middle East Eye that the biased Israeli coverage of the attacks is part of a broader phenomenon.

“The Israeli media has invented alternative jargon to describe Palestinian resistance actions,” Noy said. “For the Israeli media, there is no difference between attacking soldiers and attacking civilians.”.......more.........