In response to the recent attack by Hamas on 7th October, 2023, Israel responded with an unprecedented scale of constant bombardment across the Gaza Strip. While the Israeli government
is tagging it as a war against Hamas, most of its bombardments have been targeted towards innocent civilians sheltering in residential buildings, schools, mosques, hospitals and even refugee camps. This kind of barbaric reaction is being referred to as nothing but a genocide by most of the world, while the Palestinians are also calling it the New Nakba. Graphic images of Palestinian people, both injured and killed due to the horrific bombardments keep on flooding the media while people around the world are gathering and calling for a ceasefire. When such is the case, the Israeli military is trying to rein back the proliferation of the scale of violence that Gaza is witnessing now by cutting of Gaza’s electricity and internet, threatening the journalists who are covering the genocide and even killing them and their family members. The United States has also supported Israel in doing so as American media outlets have either refrained from covering all the events of the genocide or they have spread propaganda in favor of Israel to mislead the mass people.

However, this time, the Palestinian journalists have been able to show the world every atrocity that is taking place in Gaza and this has made a huge impact on the mass people and led a worldwide uprising for the Palestinian cause. This has pushed the world leaders to be very careful while issuing any official statement on this matter and also be vocal about the intensity of this asymmetric war. This commentary will focus on how media has played a key role in influencing public opinion