UK journalists go to Gaza, but still cover up Israel’s genocide

or more than two years, Israel has carried out a remorseless campaign of erasure in Gaza, reducing the territory to rubble. Many Palestinians in the enclave have been turned into accidental journalists. 

Amid Israel’s ban on foreign journalists, the only sources of information have been the citizens living through and live-streaming the genocide. Even so, their courageous efforts were not widely appreciated.

“There are no journalists in Gaza,” David Lammy, then the British foreign secretary, asserted late last year. The same sentiment was expressed by prominent CNN presenter Christiane Amanpour. 

The implication was that Palestinians could not be trusted to narrate their reality accurately or objectively, and that only mainstream journalists could serve as credible truth-tellers to aid public understanding.

Rooted in hubris, this theory has been put to the test and comprehensively shattered, as journalists from Britain’s main broadcasters - including ITV, Sky News and the BBC - recently entered Gaza, and characteristically obscured the reality. They upheld the fiction that Gaza represents the site of complex warfare, not meticulously orchestrated mass slaughter.

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