Gaza is a “graveyard for children.” U.S. news media is moving on.

Last week’s six-day ceasefire provided a moment of relief for the 2.2 million residents of Gaza, more than 80 percent of whom have been displaced and at least 15,500 killed.

But since Friday, Israel’s bombing campaign has resumed — and shocking new reporting has revealed that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu commissioned a plan to “thin out” the Palestinian population “to a minimum.”

And yet, despite growing evidence of what many international legal experts describe as genocide, coverage of the war in Gaza has begun to fade across the U.S. news media. And what coverage remains largely conforms to a narrow ideological range in line with the Biden administration’s unequivocal support for Israel.

This is why the fiercely independent, adversarial journalism of The Intercept is so vital in this moment. We’re counting on reader support to keep reporting on Gaza for as long as this war continues.

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The United Nations has described Gaza as a “graveyard for children,” as at least 6,000 children have been killed since October 7.

The health care system is in a state of near-total collapse. Food and water are “practically non-existent,” according to the U.N., and civilians face the “immediate possibility of starvation.” Repeated telecommunications blackouts have cut off contact between Gaza and the outside world. Journalists, doctors, and health workers are dying in unprecedented numbers.

Now, right-wing newspaper Israel Hayom is reporting that Netanyahu tasked a government minister with creating a plan to ethnically cleanse Gaza of Palestinians. Israeli media have also reported that a plan being pushed in Congress would condition aid to Arab nations on their willingness to accept Palestinian refugees.

Without journalism that exposes war crimes and the Biden administration’s complicity, there will be no accountability for the killing, and these desperate conditions will continue to deteriorate.

But with much of the rest of the U.S. news media losing interest and moving on to other stories, we know that this reporting simply would not happen without The Intercept. That’s why our unapologetically adversarial journalism is so needed — perhaps more than at any other time since The Intercept was founded.

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