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Day after day, at the State Department’s press briefings, we’re told that the U.S. has “concerns” about how Israel is conducting its war on Gaza — and that the Biden administration is committed to supporting it anyway.

Government spokespeople insist Israel is not blocking humanitarian aid, even as countless videos show the Israel Defense Forces bombing humanitarian vehicles and standing by as mobs attack aid trucks.

They tell us that President Joe Biden’s red line opposing an invasion of Rafah hasn’t been crossed, even as Israeli tanks roll through the city.

As an Intercept politics reporter in Washington, D.C., I go to these briefings in person and ask the hard questions that many other news outlets won’t. And as long as this war goes on, The Intercept will be there, challenging the State Department’s contradictions and confronting its denials with facts.

There are fewer and fewer media outlets that can afford to have a D.C. bureau and send reporters to these briefings. And there are certainly no corporate advertisers clamoring to fund journalism that questions the bipartisan pro-Israel consensus in the halls of power.

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Time and time again, officials say the U.S. has “urged” Israel not to do something destructive, only for the government of Israel to proceed to do exactly what it was supposedly urged not to do.

We see journalists in Gaza beaten and killed. Aid workers bombed. Children starving to death.

And yet the Biden administration continues to provide the weapons for Israel to continue this war.

In the face of these contradictions, too many major corporate news outlets simply pass along the statements of government officials as news. But The Intercept will never be anyone’s stenographer. We exist to challenge power, not chase access.

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