By Adam Eliyahu Berkowitz/Israel 365 News
September 14, 2026
The gap between the reception “Naza” received in Venice and the substance of the IDF’s rebuttal is not an isolated case. It fits a pattern researchers have documented across the reporting and the culture surrounding the Gaza war.
A Spring 2025 study in Middle East Quarterly by Andrew Fox of the Henry Jackson Society and Tatiana Glezer of Fifty Global examined coverage of Gaza casualty figures across eight major outlets, including CNN, the BBC, The Washington Post, The New York Times, The Guardian, Reuters and the Associated Press. The study found that only 3 percent of the outlets cited specific figures for combatant casualties, and that Hamas-supplied figures were cited in 100 percent of the publications sampled while Israeli figures appeared in only 4 percent.
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