Israel’s victims in Gaza are nameless in western media. These are their names
Palestinians mourn relatives killed in Israeli strikes on displacement tents in Al-Mawasi, where at least 22 were killed and over 100 wounded, at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis on 18 May 2025
Ghada Ageel writes in Middle East Eye on 5 June 2025:
A man in a green shirt stands in a Gaza hospital, phone in hand, making a call. “Hello, Hany, come to the hospital. Hany, please come. Send someone. My children died, Hany. Both my sons – they’re gone.”
He hangs up, whispering: “Oh Allah…” Another man, who seems to know him, approaches and asks: “Abu Muhannad, what happened?” He breaks down in tears. “My sons died. Muhannad and Mohammed. They both died. They’re gone. I swear to God – they’re gone. My sons are gone.”
This is not fiction. It’s a video from one of Gaza’s hospitals, where grief is documented in real time. This is not the lonely cry of one man echoing through a hospital corridor. It is one of countless screams confirming that a genocide is unfolding – one body, one child, one neighbourhood at a time.
As Israeli ground troops begin their policy of ethnic cleansing in northern Gaza, civilians across the south are – once again – being herded into ever-shrinking spaces where there is no safety from the bombardment.
Scrolling horror
I spend hours each day scrolling through Telegram channels showing what Amnesty International has described as a “live-streamed genocide”. The pain, the horror, the fear, the blood – along with forced starvation and expulsion – are all visible on our screens.
Wounded people flood into Al-Awda Hospital in central Gaza after an F-16 air strike on the Al-Hassayna UN school in al-Nuseirat refugee camp, where displaced families had sought shelter. The pain, the horror, the fear, the blood – along with forced starvation and expulsion – are all visible on our screens. The names of those killed begin to scroll: five martyrs – Ayda, Asmaa, Yasir, Ismail, Ashraf. Then three more: Awni, Alaa, Mohammed, and many others still uncounted.
Soon, videos of the massacre begin to surface. Footage from Al-Awda Hospital in Deir al-Balah shows rows of wounded children. A baby lies in blood-soaked clothes while doctors wrap bandages around his head. He cries while sucking his fingers – perhaps from hunger, perhaps for comfort.
In another clip, a father cradles his injured daughter while medics fight to save her shattered limbs.
These are the images millions of Americans and Europeans will never see, protected in their bubbled living rooms by corporate propaganda news that shields them from such sights – atrocities that may lead them to question what their governments are supporting.