The Media Accountability Project  

"The article's framing is problematic the Associated Press absolves Israel of its responsibility for killing some of its own citizens in Gaza and obscuring an important part of this story. This context should be added, as it provides a more balanced and thorough understanding of Israel’s military invasions in Gaza. Israel’s tactics have not only been condemned by parties concerned about genocide, but also by the families of hostages concerned about their relatives being killed due to the dangerous tactics employed by Israel’s military."

"Using the term “patient” to refer to Palestinians who were forcibly taken captive and subsequently treated for injuries is a dangerous euphemism that obfuscates the fact that Israel is 1) holding these individuals captive and wrongfully detaining them and 2) “treating” injuries the Israeli military as almost certainly inflicted."

Rubenstein asserts that October 7 was a “fanatical desire, rooted in Muslim religious beliefs and buttressed by fake history, to exterminate the Jews of Israel.” This is blatant Islamophobia.

With this type of thinking, how do we explain the hundreds of millions of people who have rallied in support of Palestine and its liberation in the past eight months? In our thousands, in our millions, we are all Palestinian.

"Fragmentation of Palestinian land, dispossession of land and property, segregation and control of Palestinian movement and placement, and deprivation of their economic & social rights, according to Amnesty International, have sustained the apartheid system and maintained a Jewish demographic majority in Palestine. Zionist militias violently massacaring 15,000 Palestinians, forcibly expelling over 700,000, and destroying 500 Palestinian towns echoes the belief that one’s country, people, religion or race is inherently superior to the group being attacked, to use your language."

"Ms. Mendick's extremely selective framing of her story evokes empathy for the hostages while omitting the fact that there are instances where Israel has killed its own citizens."

Mr. Chaudhuri's conscientious choice of precise language
and commitment to providing context to help readers understand the current situation in
Palestine. It is essential to recognize that Canadian media often frames Palestinian
retaliatory actions as terrorism without providing the underlying realities of Israel’s 75
brutal occupation of Palestine, Israel’s blockade of Gaza, and Israel’s illegal settlements in
the occupied West Bank.

Israel's blockade and siege of Gaza did not start on October 7th. Israel has had total control of the crossings into Gaza since 2007 when Hamas won the election and Israel imposed a land, sea, and air blockade on the Gaza Strip. This amounts to collective punishment and is considered a war crime.

"Mentioning that civilians are “uninvolved” casts guilt on Palestinians when they are protected at all costs under international law. It should not have been written in the first place."

"Nothing wrong with the data, the overall data (more than 35,000) are still the same," said WHO spokesperson Christian Lindmeier at a Geneva press briefing in response to questions about the toll. "The fact we now have 25,000 identified people is a step forward," he added.