Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair

Some serious readers would like to see mainstream media and independent media cover several events and matters involving the Israeli war in tiny Gaza and the mass slaughter of its defenseless citizens.

1. Israel keeps exaggerating the status and threat by the Hamas government, which is ridiculous. What about an article on what is left of Hamas, never a threat with a few thousand fighters with small arms and limited ammunition, hiding in tunnels, until the mysterious collapse on October 7, 2023 of the super-modern, multi-tiered border security system, all at the same time? What are the Israeli casualty figures in the past year in Gaza besides accidents and friendly fire?

2. WHAT ABOUT THE VAST DEATH AND SERIOUS INJURY UNDERCOUNT? (See, “65 Doctors, Nurses and Paramedics: What We Saw in Gaza” by Feroze Sidhwa, New York TimesSunday, October 13, 2024; The Lancet, “Counting the dead in Gaza: Difficult but essential”, my column of March 28, 2025, “The Vast Gaza Death Undercount– Undermines Civic, Diplomatic and Political Pressures”and my article in the August/September 2024 Capitol Hill Citizen).

3. What is the situation in the........

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