Breaking News: Israeli Minister Announces Plan To Break Gaza Ceasefire
The English-speaking media is suspiciously silent, while Hebrew-speaking media praises the plan
The ceasefire in Gaza has barely begun, the rubble is only beginning to be removed from the streets of Gaza and Israel’s Defence Minister is already explaining what will happen next. In a series of statements, the war criminal has stated that Israel’s biggest challenge after returning the kidnapped soldiers will be to directly destroy all Hamas tunnels in Gaza.
That single sentence gives away everything. “After returning the kidnapped soldiers” means as soon as the exchange is over, which could be as early as today. In other words, the moment the hostages are home, the bombing resumes. Israel removes the only leverage there was to prevent the completion of genocide, and they will resume the bombing.
Hebrew media including Ynet and Israel Hayom repeated the quote almost word for word in their headlines, not shying away from telling the Israeli public that the ceasefire is likely already over.
What’s most revealing is who isn’t talking about it. English-language outlets have spent days celebrating the ceasefire and the possible release of hostages, but barely a whisper has been heard about Israel’s Defence Minister already planning post-ceasefire strikes. We found eight Hebrew outlets openly reporting the story, while there are zero English headlines that call this what it is. This always happens, Hebrew media will print the blunt admission of future destruction while English media sanitises it or buries it in the copy. The result is that the scale of what is being planned is softened for English readers, while Israeli and Arabic audiences see the raw plan in plain language.
When they do mention it, the tone changes. Reuters buries it halfway down an article, where the headline focuses on ‘the ceasefire holding.’ The fact of the matter is, not many people will read past the headline of “Ceasefire holds in Gaza ahead of hostage release and Trump’s visit to Israel,” to discover that Reuters quotes the plan directly within that same article.
This is a consistent criticism of Reuters in the media sphere. While they continue to be one of the single most reliable and trustworthy sources in the English speaking world, that trust and reliability disappears as soon as the topic shifts to Israel and Palestine.
While hospitals in Gaza are still reporting that no medical supplies have entered, Israel is openly preparing for renewed military action. The same government that has breached the ceasefire with Lebanon hundreds of times, is now speaking openly to the public about breaking yet another one.
Every time there is a ceasefire, Israel breaks it. It pains me so much to write about this, knowing that the media are playing games to hide this, knowing that Palestinians in Gaza are celebrating the respite in bombing, and knowing that Israel will simply get away with this thanks to frankly awful journalism from sources who are trustworthy in almost every other topic.
This genocidal nation will not change, the world needs to force it to change. But that will not happen, instead, our governments and journalists will happily hide their plans to inflict more pain on those poor souls in Gaza.