Civilian deaths during operation have seldom been mentioned, but public support for a deal with Hamas is still strong
, Saturday was a rare, joyful day in Israel after four hostages were rescued safely from Gaza in a special forces operation.
In the midst of such catharsis after eight months of a steady trickle of news that more and more hostages have died, there was little bandwidth infor the renewed suffering in Gaza that the operation has caused. A total of 274 people were killed and another 696 were injured, according to medics in the devastated Palestinian territory, the majority in airstrikes that allowed the commandos to escape after one of their vehicles broke down when they under fire from militants.
“People have not cared about the Palestinian casualty count the whole time, and the media doesn’t really report it, so I wouldn’t expect them to start caring about it now, during of all things a rescue operation. As we have seen before, there is an Israeli narrative in the war, and an international narrative, and they don’t really meet.”
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