Israeli hasbara aims to obscure the humanitarian crisis in Gaza, as international media often hesitated to report the severity of the situation. Coverage reached a turning point with the emergence of disturbing images of starving children. Despite Israeli officials refuting claims of famine, evidence of blockades on food and medicine reveals the grim reality. Hasbara tactics involve challenging observers’ interpretations and labeling severe humanitarian conditions as fabrications, implying that witnesses and media are complicit in deception. The narrative constructed by hasbara seeks to distort the truth and redirect perception of the crisis.
When the images of starving Palestinian children began to emerge...something shifted. The photographs were too visceral, too undeniable...the media's gatekeepers could not entirely look away.
With Tel Aviv's guidance, pro-Israel media operatives set out to debunk the evidence of famine. The method was fully Orwellian: Don't just contest the facts. Contest the eyes that see them.
Israeli officials...assured the public this was all a Hamas fabrication, as though Hamas had somehow managed to trick aid agencies, foreign doctors and every journalist in Gaza into staging hunger.
Israeli ministers had publicly vowed to block food, fuel and medicine. Never mind that trucks were stopped for months, sometimes vandalised by Israeli settlers in broad daylight.
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