LAST week, as Israel launched bombing attacks on Gaza that would result in the deaths of 25 Palestinians, including a pregnant mother and a 14-month-old baby, the majority of Britain’s media described Israel’s actions as a response to rocket attacks or framed the events as a “resumption of hostilities.” 

The round of rocket attacks from Gaza began after Israel killed two Palestinians on the Friday during the Great Return March protests, adding to the more than 200 killed since these weekly protests began in March 2018, alongside nearly 30,000 injured and maimed. 

These killings have only received mainstream media coverage on days when large numbers of Palestinians have been killed or on the few occasions when Palestinian violence has harmed Israelis.
 
We are told that, now the ceasefire has been announced, life will return to normal and calm will be restored.