Israel-Hamas War

‘The media has been drafted into the war’: Israeli journalists on a news blackout from Gaza

The human catastrophe arising from the bombardment of Gaza is not shown on mainstream Israeli television, Paul Kearns in Tel Aviv reports

A man evacuates a wounded girl after Israeli bombardment in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip. Picture: Said Khatib/AFP via Getty Images

As the harrowing images of dead, bloodied children in Gaza continue to ricochet around the world, there is one country, at least, that does not see them: Israel.

The reason is simple. The appalling human catastrophe arising from the bombardment of Gaza is not shown on the three mainstream TV news channels, Channel 11, 12 and 13.

For the veteran left-wing Israeli journalist Gideon Levy, the reason why the images are not shown is, as ...