On Aug. 25 Israel attacked Nasser Medical Complex, the largest health facility in southern Gaza, and murdered 20 innocent people. They used what is called a “double tap.” First they attacked the fourth floor stairway of the hospital with a drone strike, killing two and injuring dozens. The attack gathered rescuers, aid workers, doctors, and journalists to help the injured and document the truth. It was widely known that journalists gathered on this stairway to access the hospital’s Wi-Fi. Within 15 minutes, a second bomb struck, killing 18 more, including a doctor and five journalists.
Since Oct. 7, 2023, Israel has been responsible for the deaths of more than 200 journalists, more killed than in every war since the Civil War. Why? Israel does not want the truth of its genocide in Gaza to be seen by the world.
The Committee to Protect Journalists reported that “Israel is engaged in the most deadly and deliberate effort to kill and silence journalists that CPJ has ever documented. Palestinian journalists are being threatened, directly targeted, and murdered by Israeli forces, and arbitrarily detained and tortured in retaliation for their work.”
Another weapon Israel uses against the Palestinians is famine. Food and medicine are outside the gates to Gaza, but Israel keeps those gates locked. Experts on famine say this is the most carefully engineered famine imposed by man since WWII.
When the U.N. agencies distributed food and medicine in Gaza, people were fed. Since the U.S. took over their job, and partnered with Israel to create the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, people have been starving, and hundreds have been gunned down by the Israeli occupying forces while standing in line for food.
Bibi Netanyahu insists there is no famine in Gaza and that Israel is doing all it can. Without honest journalists on the ground telling the real story, he creates a kind of cover. He knows his main enemy is the truth.
Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich spilled the beans in mid-August at a news conference. He said, “For two and half months we did not allow humanitarian aid into the Gaza Strip. … What will enter in the coming days is the bare minimum. … But would I want to avoid the need to bring even a single grain into the Gaza Strip altogether? Not even for the civilians? Could be. … Until the last hostage returns, we shouldn’t even give water to the Gaza Strip.”
Smotrich also confessed, “The world still hasn’t stopped us. The aim is to achieve the one and only required outcome: the conquest of Gaza, the annihilation of Hamas, and the return of all the hostages.”
Why is America complicit in this evil?
Artificial intelligence from the U.S. guides Israeli bombs, like those that hit the hospital. And every time the U.N. Security Council is asked for an independent investigation into the deaths of journalists, every member votes yes, except the United States. Like Israel, it does not want the truth to be known.
Most of the world knows the truth. They recognize the famine and genocide in Gaza. They oppose Israel’s steady expansion into Palestinian lands. They know that the United States funds Israel’s crimes against humanity. The cry goes out around the world from millions of voices. “Stop arming Israel.”
It’s time for every American to speak truth to power. If our leaders won’t listen, vote them out!
Gale McNeeley writes to the Sun from Santa Maria. Send a letter for publication to letters@santamariasun.com.
This article appears in Sep 11 – Sep 18, 2025.
If it walks like genocide and quacks like genocide, it’s probably genocide. Unfortunately, the U.S. will do nothing under the Trump administration (it was also true that Biden let things go too far and history will not be kind to him). Trump is too busy waging war on his own nation to pay any mind what’s happening in Gaza, or Ukraine for that matter. In the wake of the Kirk killing, watch for even more troops on our streets “rounding up the criminals.” And mark my words, those of us who lean left are now criminals, just as the Jews, communists, labor unionists, teachers, etc. were in the wake of the Reichstag fire in 1933 in Germany.