#gaza

When another Gaza "ceasefire" came into effect in October 2025, it provided Israeli authorities with cover to continue their policies of ethnic cleansing, occupation, and annexation of more Palestinian land—like the ceasefire negotiations in 2024 and the decades-long "peace process"—with less scrutiny. Legacy media supported these efforts by reducing their already poor coverage of the Gaza Genocide, underreporting Israel's expanded operations in the occupied West Bank, and filtering the existing reporting through the narrative of a ceasefire. Israel just continued killing Palestinians and blocking aid on a smaller scale, while the media continued to repeat Israeli and U.S. statements as fact. One of the more accurate headlines immediately following the ceasefire announcement came from the parody-news site The Onion, which stated, "Israel Agrees to Go Back to Killing Palestinians on Less Frequent Basis." Though satirical, The Onion's spoof headline managed to aptly capture not only the travesty of the ceasefire but also the historical model of Israel's violence against Palestinians.

— Don't Say Palestine by Assal Rad

Despite Israel's practice of targeting, arresting, and even killing Palestinian journalists, its massacre of journalists during the Gaza Genocide reached an unimaginable scale. As early as December 2023, CPJ documented a staggering spike in journalist deaths, reporting that nearly 75 percent of all journalists killed globally that year had been in Gaza since October. In just a few months, Israel had made 2023 the deadliest year for journalists in more than a decade. Even when it was evident that Palestinian journalists were being killed at a rate unprecedented in modern warfare, many headlines from major Western outlets avoided the most basic journalistic duty: naming the killer.

— Don't Say Palestine by Assal Rad