In their coverage of the issue of the Israeli war on the Gaza Strip, international newspapers focused on different angles. Among them: the mysterious disappearance of Israeli surveillance camera recordings at the Gaza border, the Western campaign against those in solidarity with the Palestinians, and the difference of visions between the American President and the Israeli Prime Minister.
The Jerusalem Post revealed that recordings from Israeli surveillance cameras along the border with Gaza, dating back to the day the war broke out, have mysteriously disappeared, and important recordings have been removed from the central database.
The newspaper says, “These recordings are vital because they provide a comprehensive description of what happened on October 7th, and the measures that must be taken.”
She added that this matter raised doubts and fueled a feeling that everyone was primarily looking out for their own interests, and that their eyes were anticipating what would come next, according to the newspaper.
Haaretz newspaper touched on what it called the difference of visions between US President Joe Biden and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. She wrote, “The Biden administration will discover that Netanyahu is deliberately confronting it in order to blame it, for depriving him of the opportunity to eliminate the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas). He is doing so for political reasons based on the fact that he was on the verge of achieving a major victory, but Biden prevented him from completing the mission.”
Al-Shifa Hospital is not a Hamas center
The British newspaper “The Guardian” devoted an article to talking about the campaign launched by the West against those in solidarity with the Palestinians. An article entitled “Solidarity with the Palestinians is not hate speech” referred to a sample of cases in the United States, Germany, and Britain in which a number of figures – some of whom were Jews – found themselves canceled, banned, or dismissed from their jobs. Because of expressing their solidarity with the Palestinians.
According to an article by Kenan Malek, the matter reached the point of dismissing people from their jobs, not because they encouraged violence, but because they called for a ceasefire. The writer concluded by saying that censorship cannot be a basis for justice.
As for the American newspaper, The New York Times, it traced the roots of the Irish people’s sympathy for the Palestinian cause, and the shared history of suffering from British colonialism. The newspaper quoted a professor of history at Trinity College in Dublin as saying that the country’s status as a former British colony unconsciously shaped the way in which In which the people of Ireland engage with post-colonial conflicts.
As for the French newspaper Le Monde, it analyzed video clips published by the Israeli army, in which it talked about a 130-meter-long tunnel under Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza, claiming that it is a huge leadership center for the Hamas movement. The newspaper confirmed that it reconstructed maps of this tunnel, and found that it is not as large as it makes it be. An operational or strategic center, and it does not amount to a large weapons cache.
