Do Israelis see the horror of Gaza on TV?

Israeli television broadcasts few images of the tragedies caused in Gaza by the daily bombings by Tel Aviv's air force, like the one that destroyed a school full of children on Monday itself. They do so in moderation, naturally following a political intention of Benjamin Netanyahu's government, which has the power to control what is shown on citizens' screens.

When they are broadcast, these images of horror do not usually open the news, but are left for later, they take up little time and, in most cases, the least brutal scenes are chosen to minimize their impact and, if necessary, hide the reality. It is true that the evening news on Channel 12, the most watched in Israel, has shown images of some malnourished child or dozens of children waiting with a container to collect the food their family needs to survive. When this is done, it is shown briefly and It is common for the announcer to say that these are the images that Westerners see..

Specifically, Israeli factions close to the Netanyahu government are publicly complaining that Western networks are very inclined to seek out images of total destruction, that they are filming the journalists who are still alive in the Palestinian Gas Strip - or more - who have died in the bombings, and that there are no foreign reporters in Gaza because the governments of Israel and Egypt do not allow them to enter. in the time of the smartphones, there are no more excuses. Being uninformed is a choice. And many Israelis choose to be uninformed.

Polls show that a large majority of Israelis, around 80%, are satisfied with what the army is doing in Gaza. All the destruction, all the deaths, including children and women, which have exceeded 55,000, are perfectly acceptable to most respondents.

A pariah state?

There was something of a crisis last week when former General Yair Golan, leader of the center-left liberal Democrats party, said: "Israel is becoming a pariah state, like South Africa, if we don't act like a healthy country again. A healthy country doesn't fight against civilians, doesn't kill children like a hobby, and does not want to expel populations".

The next day, amid great commotion, Golan had to clarify that he wasn't referring to soldiers but to politicians. Probably few Israelis think this way, according to the polls, and even fewer openly denounce the war on Gaza.

Amid the condemnation Golan suffered, Israeli aircraft this weekend killed nine of the ten children of a doctor in Khan Yunis, siblings aged between eight months and twelve years. Hours later, the horrific bombing of the school shelter took place. But in Israel, it seems no one is keen to talk about what many international jurists and experts call genocide.