Source: Common Dreams
by Norman Solomon
“A few days before the end of 2024, the independent magazine +972 reported that ‘Israeli army forces stormed the Kamal Adwan Hospital compound in Beit Lahiya, culminating a nearly week-long siege of the last functioning hospital in northern Gaza.’ While fire spread through the hospital, its staff issued a statement saying that ‘surgical departments, laboratory, maintenance, and emergency units have been completely burned,’ and patients were ‘at risk of dying at any moment.’ The magazine explained that ‘the assault on medical facilities in Beit Lahiya is the latest escalation in Israel’s brutal campaign of ethnic cleansing in northern Gaza, which over the last three months forcibly displaced the vast majority of Palestinians living in the area.’ The journalism from +972 — in sharp contrast to the dominant coverage of the Gaza war from U.S. media — has provided clarity about real-time events, putting them in overall context rather than episodic snippets.” (01/15/25)
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/us-media-obscure-gaza-war