Silencing statistics, silencing genocide, betraying Palestinian lives and memory
Ramona Wadi- While Israel kills, the US silences dissent by stifling the information at source.
On Thursday last week, the US House of Representatives passed an amendment to prevent the US State Department from using Gaza’s Health Ministry statistics to cite the casualty figures for Israel’s genocide in Gaza. Israel regularly states that it has no information on the Palestinian civilians killed and wounded by its bombs, preferring to focus the narrative on purportedly eradicating Hamas.
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