Gaza Genocide: British Media Feeling Pressure Bends a Little

Richard Mellor

8-13-25

This video is from a week ago and is a report from Britain’s ITV. The fact that it shows the horrific scenes in Gaza, the destruction of the infrastructure, blowing up of hospitals and schools, and what is clearly a conscious starvation of the people, reflects the pressure that the Zionist regime’s allies are facing. 

 

Outside of the US, the UK and western European powers barring Ireland and Spain, Israel is seen as a pariah among nations by the rest of the world and its actions are recognized as a genocide, but western media outlets and many politicians adamantly reject the term. Israel is too valuable an ally as a European settler colony in this important oil rich region of the world.

 

However, some criticism of the content is warranted.

 

The western media continues to refer to this genocide as a “war”. It is not a war. There are not two equal sides here.  It is not simply a conflict either which is another attempt to obscure the truth. It is not Israel defending itself and it is not simply a response to an unprovoked attacked by Hamas on October 7^th2023. Israel has been murdering, torturing and “cleansing” the region of Palestinian Arab life and culture since the nation’s creation by the UN in 1948.

 

What happened on October 7^th 2023 was Palestinians in Gaza, what the vast majority of the world referred to as the world’s largest outdoor concentration camp, managed to break out of the camp and kill and capture some of their captors. Think for one serious minute, that outside this concentration camp, the occupiers were enjoying a rock concert that was within earshot of the incarcerated.  

 

Johnathan Cooke in his article today:

 

“Gaza has long been a prison that the Israeli military illegally controlled by land, sea and air, determining who could enter and leave. It kept Gaza’s economy throttled, and put the enclave’s population “on a diet” that saw rocketing malnourishment among its children long before the current starvation campaign.

Trapped behind a highly militarised fence since the early 1990s, unable to access their own coastal waters, and with Israeli drones constantly surveilling them and raining down death from the air, the people of Gaza viewed it more as a modernised concentration camp.”

 

He writes of October 7^th, “On 7 October 2023, thousands of Palestinian fighters briefly broke out of the besieged prison camp they and their families had endured after Israel momentarily dropped its guard.”

 

The Israeli hostages

ITV is a British based news outlet so it is likely still very much biased in its reporting on the Palestinian decades long struggle against the occupation and its violence, Apartheid and ethnic cleansing policies. So it is obligated to give time to the Israeli’s the Palestinian resistance captured when they broke out of Gaza. And as human beings, we should feel for them too. However, the Israeli government and especially Netanyahu, are not concerned one bit about the Israeli’s captured on October 7^th.

 

But there is no mention of the Palestinian hostages, the thousands of them in Israeli prisons and torture centers, there is ample evidence of this yet they are never referred to as hostages in the western media. Palestinian children in the occupied territories are frequently rounded up and held hostage by the Zionist regime. Palestinian homes are destroyed, olive trees uprooted and their land stolen from them by right wing neo-fascist settlers all under the protection of the IDF. How is Israel defending itself there?

 

The entire world is against the US, Israel and its western backers of the genocide. But as long as Trump, like all the US presidents, and the US government continue to send the weapons and support the carnage with US taxpayer funds, the mass murder will continue.