Re: Israeli military encircled Gaza City

THE EDITOR, Madam;

Thus far, over 10,000 Gazans, mostly civilians, have reportedly perished under unrelenting Israeli fire targeting Hamas. It’s disturbing that so many Palestinian non-combatants have been prevented from crossing borders to safety since the beginning of Israel’s military response to Hamas’s invasion and slaughter a month ago against so many Israelis.

I theorise that maybe Israel and Westerners in general, including our legacy news media, have been getting accustomed to so many Palestinian deaths over many decades of Palestinian/Hamas-Israel warring. It seems to me that for quite some time, Palestinians have been perceived and thus treated as not being of equal value to Israelis.

Meanwhile, the general Western corporate news media’s ‘coverage’ of the Israel-Palestinian conflict has long been wanting, to put it mildly. This includes their reporting on the current and past violence but especially their non-reporting on the consequential anti-Palestinian social injustices that continue in between every military flare-up over decades of Israeli occupation.

I’m far from alone in finding that Palestinian suffering and deaths in their entirety have not been justly represented.

FRANK STERLE JR

White Rock, BC

Canada