Israeli forces stormed, attacked and burned the Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza, forcing everyone inside to evacuate and arresting many of the medical staff, including the director, Dr Hussam Abu Safia.
Sick and wounded people have no other medical facilities to go to, because Israel has destroyed all other hospitals in the north, and they cannot leave the north.
Northern Gaza has been under a “siege within a siege” by Israel since October of this year, trapping tens of thousands of people there without adequate food, work, or shelter and, now, no hospitals.
Israel laid siege to Gaza in October 2023 and launched a war against the besieged, killing 45,399 people and injured more than 107,000 until now.
Most of these people are ordinary people. Thousands of children have lost limbs in bombings in Israel and thousands are orphaned.
All along, Israel did they attacked hospitals and schools where people whose houses were bombed were living.
Many internal opponents to continue Israel's war in Gaza are close to demanding the release of about 100 prisoners taken from Israel in an operation led by Hamas in October 2023.
However, awareness among many Israelis of the extent of their country's involvement in Gaza appears to be limited.
The result, analysts say, is a television channel that – with notable exceptions – appears ready to call out the country's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his growing right-wing government.
At war it's real
In February, reports surfaced that Netanyahu was trying to shut down public broadcaster Kan because he was resisting political pressure to change his list.
Three months later, the Israeli government issued a ban on Al Jazeera by working in his community.
In November, that passed a bill to dissolve the union and the liberal Israeli newspaper Haaretz, which has maintained consistent opposition to the Netanyahu government and its war on Gaza.
In December, the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) said 75 journalists had been arrested by Israel in its territory, the West Bank and occupied Gaza since the start of the Gaza war, with some being beaten, threatened and searched.
Israel has also killed around 200 journalists and TV crews.
“Israelis have the right to know what is happening in their name, especially in the war in Gaza,” Rebecca Vincent, director of campaigns with Reporters Without Borders (RSF) told Al Jazeera.
“The Netanyahu government is working deliberately not only to present a false narrative of the war in Gaza, but also to strengthen the government's control over the media… .
Many humanitarian and human rights organizations working in Israel to defend Palestinian rights feel that their voices are being silenced because of the hostility to their work.
“Our work does not go away,” said Dr Guy Shalev, director of Physicians for Human Rights-Israel (PHRI), which advocates for Palestinian access to medical care.
“There is only one platform where PHRI is present and that is Haaretz… the only platform that has news about the Palestinians, their occupation and Gaza that is not controlled by the security forces,” he said.
“There are some (outside the country), but they are small and, if you want to talk to Israelis in Hebrew, they may not be there,” he said, referring to the problem many in Israel face.
Preparing for genocide
For Shalev, this story is one of literature, and stories that reinforce the government's military goals, rather than providing facts.
On Thursday, Israel bombed Yemen, hitting the airport in Sanaa where the head of the World Health Organization, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, was about to board a flight.
International journalists reported the crash to Ghebreyesus, who tweeted that one of the pilots was injured and two people at the airport were killed.
Our work is to discuss the release of @UN prison staff and assess the health and welfare of the people #Yemen finished today. We continue to demand that these detainees be released as soon as possible.
When we were about to board our flight from Sana'a, about two hours ago, the airport… pic.twitter.com/riZayWHkvf
– Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus (@DrTedros) December 26, 2024
In contrast, Israel's most widely read newspaper, the free Israel Hayom, boasted of an “attack news conference”, making no mention of the assassination of an international diplomat.
Similarly, Israel's second most widely read newspaper, Yedioth Ahronoth, also reported on the strike, not to mention the opposition, including by the UN.
When issues such as the complete lack of support for entry into Gaza are mentioned at all, “the emphasis will be on Hamas, or the armed rebels, of the robberies,” Shalev said.
This, he said, allows for the growth of the Israeli story that does not exist famine in Gazaand that even if there were, “it is Hamas that has the problem of hunger and not Israel”.
Isolation in the echo chamber
“Most people don't know what happened in Gaza in the last year,” Haaretz columnist and former Israeli ambassador Alon Pinkas told Al Jazeera via WhatsApp.
“A lot of it is willful denial. It made sense later on October 7, 2023, when people were very upset and wanted to take revenge.”
However, Pinkas continued: “There is no excuse now. What is available, whether (in) Haaretz, the foreign press that publishes the most, the US administration and various humanitarian organizations. People choose to ignore it on purpose.”
According to Shalev, the result of the lack of information is the increase in paranoia in a group that has been told to see itself surrounded by countries, its courts, organizations and organizations fighting for freedom in a war that – according to its details. media – is “official”.
Referring to the two right-wing ministers who are often cited as examples of Israel's bravery, Shalev continued: “It is more widespread than (Minister of National Defense Itamar) Ben-Gvir or (Minister of Finance Bezalel) Smotrich.
“It is a very broad idea of the greatness of the Jews. People just take that if it's given to you. It goes through right wing, left wing or fixed. It's everyone,” he said.
What the Israeli media is showing about the war in Gaza, Shalev continued, “is about 30 to 50 percent of the people who want it. The others have already made up their minds. They don't want to see any aid coming into Gaza, they want to see hospitals attacked.
“Growing up as an Israeli Jew, all my education was about the Holocaust and how people at the time said they didn't know,” he continued, “I didn't know that.
“Now we're seeing this happening again and we're all seeing it.”