It's more or less the same with any modern military. Ukraine for example doesn't allow journalists (foreign or not) in the more dangerous areas near front lines, with rare exceptions for journalists that they invite and escort.

It's perfectly reasonable to not want unrestricted journalists leaking information about military assets, or possibly getting themselves killed. Most people seem to understand (or at least not care) when Ukraine imposes press restrictions. The question should be, why are people suddenly outraged when Israel does roughly the same thing?

what is the source for your journalist claim?

also, i repeat, i hate Israel, but look at it from their point of view.

any coverage of the conflict looks bad for israel, because they are the strong side here. it is plain simple, that people always side with the weak in most cases. so imagine, a journalist enters gaza, sees how everything is destroyed, how poor the people look. of course your avarage joe will see this think that it is bad. and it doesn't matter that hamas is basically behind all this. and that nothing would have happened if hamas didn't attack israel. and hamas know all of this, so they station people and ammunition at schools and hospitals, because its a win-win. If israel doesn't strike, than good and they have ammunition, and if israel does strike, than also good, because media will see it, and scream how bad is israel. See how human cost doesn't matter here? Israel prioritises its own people, so hamas should do the same, and stop putting civilians in danger. Remember, hamas started it by attacking israel, and did not finish it when they had the chance. Everything could have finished much and much faster, if they just released the hostages.

you can see the same thing with ukraine. At first, ukraine appeared weak, so everyone was siding with it. but now, when ukraine shows that they are strong, people on the internet look horrified how russian soldiers are annihilated with fpv drones and scream about how such things are war crimes and should be stopped.

> Not sure if I understand it correctly, are you saying: 1. western countries bomb civilians, kill them, put them in jail without court, have ethnonationalistic racist state where some races has more rights and others have less, steal land from others, bomb neighbours because someone is hiding there, ignite wars, lobby/bribe powerful country politicians to reach their own goals

Sir, have you read about Western countries' imperial and colonial past, even over the last century alone? What about just the last 2 years, as they stood by Israel in every meaningful way while from time to time 'expressing concern' and issuing statements that 'international law must be respected' as the hypocrites that they are? The original commenter was correct: Israel fits right in.

I understand that appealing to myths of noble intentions of western populations is ultimately a good thing if it gets them to act more like it, but a part of me can't resist pointing out that it's just a myth and it's never been anything other than 'might makes right'. I agree with your goal, just please don't frame it as if western countries are these beacons of morality when they're anything but.

Israel doesn't target civilicans specifically, but they don't really care about coladeral damage. i don't see any problem with this

what do you mean "put in jail without court"? give me examples

whaat is the problem with having an ethnonationalistic racist state? and also, arabs have the same rights as jews in israel, because israel is a civilised western country where the law has power.

>lobby/bribe powerful country politicians to reach their own goals yes, they do this. and who is to blame? you, who elected the said politicians, and allowed it to happen, or israel, that utilized its power to achieve its goals? i don't support israel lobbying, and i wish it didn't happen, but everyone is so easyly fooled, and it is so obvious, that we can no longer say it's israels fault. it's the west who has to do something about it.

> 2. are you saying Israel didn't commit any of this? some of the things they didn't comming, some things that did commit and it is not a problem as you present it, and some things they did comming, which indeed as a problem. but there's no perfect state.

i hate israel, but definitely not because it bombs hamas terrorists.

> That number is just recovered dead bodies.

Well, it's certainly not limited to bodies that were confirmed by officials in a hospital or morgue. A lot of the casualty reports were from a Google form, or later, a self-hosted form (https://sehatty.ps/moh-registration/public/add-order).

wikipedia, lol