64% of Israelis see no need for more reporting on Gazans' sufferings

Forty-one percent of those polled by Hebrew University's aChord Center said reports on local channels 12 and 13 were biased in favor of Palestinians in Gaza; 64 percent believe 'there are no innocent people' in the enclave

Reporters and editors at Israel's major news outlets have admitted more than once, especially in private conversations, that their employers haven't allowed them to present the humanitarian crisis in Gaza and the suffering of the population there as a result of the war that Israel has been waging there. Now, a year and eight months into the war started by Hamas' October 7 attack, the results of a public opinion poll by the aChord Center of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem may help explain the decision to provide sparse coverage, at best, of the situation in Gaza.

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