For months, horrifying footage of injured or killed Palestinians has been going around the world. Palestinian journalists show their everyday reality on social media, often reporting on attacks on hospitals, schools, and other civilian targets at the risk of their own lives. No other war in recent decades has claimed as many lives among media professionals as this one. As long ago as March, Reporters Without Borders spoke of well over a hundred dead. Other sources estimate even higher figures.

At the same time, the reporting on the Gaza war by many renowned Western media outlets has been subject to considerable criticism. The Intercept, for example, explains that media such as the New York Times use emotional language to describe Israeli casualties while Palestinian ones are painted in colder terms.

The media landscape within Israel is even more one-sided, says Haggai Matar, executive director of +972 magazine. In recent months,+972 has published many critical investigations into Israeli warfare in Gaza. This includes, for example, a report on the use of artificial intelligence by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF). In an interview with Jacobin’s Magdalena Berger, he explains why Israeli media hardly reports on the situation in Gaza and what consequences this has on the mood in the country.