American bombs are still dropping on Gaza — even if the media has stopped covering it

The mainstream news media may have stopped paying attention, but Israel’s bloody war on Gaza continues unabated.

Israel is still dropping American bombs on schools, hospitals, and refugee camps.

It’s still blocking food and water while children starve to death.

And it continues to block foreign reporters from entering Gaza while threatening, harassing, and killing Palestinian journalists.

That’s why, as most for-profit U.S. news outlets turn away from Gaza, The Intercept is doubling down, partnering with courageous reporters on the ground while hiring additional political reporters to help hold the Biden administration accountable for enabling the slaughter.

But as a nonprofit, reader-supported news site, we rely on your donations to make this reporting possible.

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The scale of human suffering in Gaza is unimaginable.

Nearly 39,000 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza since October 7, 2023, according to the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. But those numbers almost certainly underestimate the true death toll.

In fact, an analysis published in the medical journal The Lancet earlier this month estimated that the war’s death toll could eventually climb to 186,000, including deaths due to indirect causes like starvation, disease outbreaks, and the destruction of Gaza’s health care infrastructure.

Yet the devastation of Gaza has mostly disappeared from the front page and cable news, and as the U.S. presidential election approaches this November, the war will receive less and less attention.

Meanwhile, the few U.S. journalists with the independence and expertise to challenge Israel have been largely sidelined — or in some cases, fired.

This is why The Intercept’s hard-hitting investigative journalism is so vital right now. For-profit corporate news outlets may have stopped paying attention to Israel’s war on Gaza, but we never will.

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