Let me tell you a story about Palm Sunday.
In the early hours of the morning, as Christians around the world prepared to mark the beginning of Holy Week, Israel bombed the Al-Ahli Baptist Hospital in Gaza City—again. The last remaining partially operational one in northern Gaza. The same one founded in 1882. The same one that was hit on October 17th last year. Remember when Israel denied it, blamed it on Hamas, and Western media tripped over themselves to cover up the crater?
This time, there was no misfired rocket to blame. No convenient “both sides” to cite. And this time, the world barely flinched.
Israel has now destroyed every hospital in Gaza, in what can only be described as a systematic effort to make Gaza unlivable and make it impossible to sustain life.
Here are just some of the countless attacks on Gaza’s healthcare industry:
On Oct. 17, 2023: Al-Ahli Hospital bombed.
On Nov. 3, 2023: Ambulances obliterated outside -Shifa.
On Nov. 21, 2023: Airstrike on Al-Awda kills 3 doctors, including 2 from MSF.
On Jan. 22, 2024: Nasser Hospital struck 150 meters from its entrance.
On Mar. 20, 2024: Al-Shifa was raided; and 90 civilians killed.
On Apr. 1, 2024: Another siege on Al-Shifa; with mass arrests and deaths.
On Dec. 28, 2024: Kamal Adwan Hospital was raided, 20 killed.
On Jan. 4, 2025: Indonesian Hospital was officially destroyed.
And on Mar. 23, 2025: Fifteen paramedics were executed in cold blood.
Israel has dropped nearly 80,000 tons of explosives on Gaza. That’s the equivalent of 36 kilograms of explosives for every man, woman, and child trapped inside the besieged enclave. The United Nations confirmed that since March 18, at least 36 Israeli airstrikes have hit sites where the only casualties were women and children.
And still, the media won’t use the word: genocide.
But here’s a word for what’s happening in Gaza. It’s not “conflict.” It’s not “war.” It’s not “tragic” or “complex” or “clashes.”
It is ethnic cleansing.
Since March 2nd, Israel has sealed Gaza shut—no food, no medicine, no water. It bombed the last functioning desalination plant. It’s taken over half the territory and declared nearly two-thirds of Gaza “no-go zones,” ordering evacuations to nowhere. And now, with tanks at the gates of Rafah and the rest of the Strip in ruins, the Israeli government is openly discussing plans to deport the remaining Palestinians—into the Egyptian Sinai or even to East Africa.
Israeli officials have floated “voluntary transfer” of Palestinians outside of Gaza. The U.S. and Israel have contacted three East African governments – Sudan, Somalia and the breakaway region of Somalia known as Somaliland – to discuss the resettlement of ethnically cleansed Palestinians.
It’s the largest campaign of ethnic cleansing since World War II. And yet—somehow—the media still won’t call it that.
Instead, headlines read: “Israel Targets Hamas Strongholds.” Or: “Civilians Caught in the Crossfire.” Or worse: nothing at all.
There is no meaningful coverage of the fact that Gaza’s hospitals have been systematically bombed, or that over a million people—half of them children—are being forced to live in tents on sand, drinking polluted water. No accountability for Israeli ministers openly calling for Gaza’s total depopulation. No scrutiny of plans rooted in Trump-era proposals to make Gaza disappear under the guise of “resettlement.”
We are witnessing a premeditated, militarized erasure of a people—and much of the Western media is treating it like a logistics story. A headline about “aid negotiations” here. A quote from the IDF there. Maybe a blurry photo of a wounded child in the footer. The entire context—decades of occupation, blockade, dehumanization—is erased in real time and systematically sanitized.
This isn’t a failure of journalism. It’s complicity
The American political establishment has not just abdicated its moral responsibility—it’s actively subsidizing Israel’s military onslaught with billions of dollars and blank checks. Meanwhile, legacy media platforms have abandoned their own principles, prioritizing “balance” over truth and “access” over accountability. Editors are afraid of using the word “genocide,” even as United Nations officials warn that one is underway. Reporters who dare to question the narrative are silenced, sidelined, or smeared.
And so the most glaring, most grotesque truth is buried: that this genocide is not just being carried out with American bombs—it’s being justified, excused, and obfuscated by American media.
Once again, the BBC echoes Israel’s narrative—uncritically amplifying the claim that Al-Ahli Baptist Hospital was a “command and control center used by Hamas.” No context. No caveats. No acknowledgment that Israel has repeatedly made similar claims in the past—claims that have been thoroughly debunked time and time again. Journalism should question power, not parrot it.
Raw footage shows Israel bombing the last functioning hospital in Gaza City while hundreds of sick patients were still inside—but the BBC won’t just say that because that would mean admitting Israel has destroyed every single hospital in Gaza. They hide behind “Hamas says” while another hospital lies in ruins. Meanwhile, we’re still expected to believe Israeli military spokesperson Lt. Col. Peter Lerner, who said on October 18th: “Hospitals are not a target; we would never target a hospital.”
Never? Every hospital is gone.
Yeah, yeah. The hospitals are Hamas. The ambulances are Hamas. The journalists are Hamas. The UN is Hamas. The schools are Hamas. The children are Hamas. Every building in Gaza is Hamas. And anyone who disputes this? Also Hamas.
What happens next won’t be contained to Gaza. The rage is already spilling across borders. If the forced expulsion of Palestinians goes ahead—as it very well might—the consequences will be catastrophic. Egypt, Jordan, and other Arab regimes may be forced into crisis. Diplomatic relations will collapse. Armed resistance will grow. Hatred—understandable, inevitable hatred—will metastasize for generations.
The genocide in Gaza is not just a Palestinian tragedy. It’s a global one. It’s a mirror held up to the media systems, political elites, and collective indifference that allowed it to happen. It will haunt us. And it should. All of us will feel it.
And when we do, we’ll look back and remember the headlines that hid the truth. The anchors who asked about “both sides.” The op-eds that called mass killing “self-defense.” The governments that watched it unfold and chose silence over sanity.
They are not just bombing Gaza—they are emptying it. Flattening neighborhoods, leveling hospitals, and then calling it an “evacuation.” But there is nowhere left to go. This isn’t about defeating Hamas. It never was. It’s about erasing Palestinians, pushing them out one airstrike at a time, and pretending it’s strategy.
Let’s be clear: this is not a military operation. It is ethnic cleansing dressed up as defense. And history will remember not just who carried it out—but who stayed silent.