Here is a photograph posted by the news outlet Reuters back in 2023 about Israel’s war in Gaza:
The caption reads:
A Palestinian man reacts as he carries a casualty at the site of Israeli strikes on houses in Rafah, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, December 7, 2023. REUTERS/Mohammed Salem
The wording here doesn’t describe the picture very well. Instead of describing the man as crying, he simply “reacts.” Instead of carrying the body of a baby, the man only carries “a casualty.” This baby is not a casualty of a war, but a casualty of “the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas.”
Here is another photograph:
The caption reads:
Women mourn holding the body of a Palestinian killed in Israeli strikes on houses, at Abu Yousef al-Najjar hospital in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, December 7, 2023. REUTERS/Ibraheem Abu Mustafa
Again, the women aren’t described as holding a baby. They are holding “the body of a Palestinian.” The woman holding the dead baby might very well be the child’s mother. And the strikes are “on houses.” We don’t know if it was these women’s homes that were targeted specifically, despite the fact that they are surrounded by the casualties of these strikes.
I suspect these captions were written intentionally to avoid emotional language. Since the images are indexed online by the text surrounding them, then it is easier to obscure Israel’s guilt in all of this by keeping sensitive images away from damning keywords like “dead baby” or “crying man holding a slain child” or “casualty of Israel’s WAR in Gaza!”
Two years have passed now since these images were taken. Here is Gaza now:
Desolation as far as the eye can see. Gaza is just gone. This was predicted as soon as Oct. 7th occurred, but very little public pressure was applied. These things can just happen, and America, the producer of the munitions that caused this as well as the ultimate defender of Israel against its enemies, will not stop it.