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[-] snooggums@midwest.social 93 points 1 month ago

The news loves to focus on individual Israeli hostages and victims by providing backgrounds and what they do for a living, but for the most part just lists Palestinian deaths by numbers and only occasionally includes names or family relationships.

There is one news agency, I think the BBC, which used the phrase "unprecedented attack" to refer to the Oct atrocity that kicked off the current hostilities but doesn't use any similar phrasing for the IDF killing many times more civilians as a response. So apparently genocide doesn't need called out in a similar fashion because it is apparently not unprecedented.

[-] pycorax@lemmy.world 20 points 1 month ago

They're not technically wrong at least, the IDF killing civilians has plenty of precedent.

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