Jane Salmonson

ISRAEL EXPOSED BY MEDIA Mainstream media coverage of the litany of horrors in #Gaza reached a turning point this week, with major outlets finally revealing the scope of Israel's genocidal barbarity and dehumanizing propaganda. These pull quotes are from articles in the past 48 hours: ◼️ NYT: Israel’s war in Gaza is killing women and children at a faster pace than in almost any other conflict in the world this century. ◼️ NYT: During the first six weeks of the war in Gaza, Israel routinely used one of its biggest and most destructive bombs in areas it designated safe for civilians. ◼️ CNN: U.S. intelligence sources told CNN that 40-45% of the 29,000 air-to-surface munitions dropped on Gaza were so-called dumb bombs, unguided munitions that can pose a greater threat to civilians. ◼️ AP: More than half a million people in Gaza — a quarter of the population — are starving, according to a report Thursday by the United Nations and other agencies. ◼️ AP: The report released by 23 U.N. and nongovernmental agencies found that the entire population in Gaza is in food crisis, with 576,600 at catastrophic or starvation levels. ◼️ AP: "It doesn’t get any worse," said Arif Husain, chief economist for the U.N.’s World Food Program. "I have never seen something at the scale that is happening in Gaza. And at this speed." ◼️ CNN: Marc Garlasco a former US defense intelligence analyst and former UN war crimes investigator, said the density of Israel’s first month of bombardment in Gaza had "not been seen since Vietnam." ◼️ NYT: Civilians have virtually no safe places to hide or ways to escape ... family trees dismembered, whole branches of them obliterated. ◼️ WAPO: "Some 1.9 million people, 85 percent of the Gaza population, have been forced from their homes," Guterres said. He added that the dead have included 136 U.N. aid workers. ◼️ WAPO: The evidence presented by the Israeli government falls short of showing that Hamas had been using the al-Shifa hospital as a command and control center ◼️ AP: WHO relief workers reported "unbearable" scenes in two hospitals: Bedridden patients with untreated wounds crying out for water, the few remaining doctors and nurses having no supplies, and bodies being lined up in the courtyard. ◼️ CNN: CNN partnered with US AI company Synthetaic to detect craters, smoke plumes and damaged buildings. The findings “reveal and emphasize the sheer intensity of the bombardment over a very short period of time." ◼️ CNN: Weapons and warfare experts blame the extensive use of heavy weaponry, such as the 2,000-pound bomb for the soaring death toll ... Most of the dead are women and children.