We do not see what is happening in Gaza. We see just enough to keep us quiet. Famished children with bloated bellies. Grieving mothers clutching dust-covered blankets. Aerial views of neighborhoods reduced to rubble. These images flicker across our screens like stock footage, sanitized, muted, pitiable but distant. They are permitted not to move us to act, but to pacify our conscience.

What we are not shown are the images that would make war impossible to ignore.

We are not shown what a child’s body looks like after an airstrike. We are not shown a teenager’s torso shredded by bullets. We do not hear the gurgled cries of someone whose lungs are filling with blood. The clips we do see often have no sound, have you noticed that? Silence is part of the........

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