Daily Gaza Slaughter Continues
Eleven Palestinians, including a three-year-old and a 14-year-old, were killed on April 15, 2026, during Israeli airstrikes in northern Gaza. These latest reported fatalities add to a staggering butcher's bill in the besieged strip, where Israeli military operations continue unabated, largely out of the spotlight of Western news cycles that prefer to focus on the 'humanitarian crisis' as a
separate issue from the bombings creating it. While Al Jazeera reports these deaths as 'Israeli attacks,' many Western outlets, such as the BBC, frequently frame such incidents with passive language, often omitting the aggressor or resorting to phrases like 'violence in the region escalated,' which sanitizes the deliberate targeting of civilians and the systematic destruction of infrastructure.
This linguistic obfuscation serves to obscure the ongoing extermination, which has seen over 680,000 Palestinians killed, including 479,000 children, since the latest phase of the assault began. The current pattern of daily killings, often involving children, mirrors past Israeli actions. For instance, in 1982, Israeli forces and their allied militias perpetrated the Sabra and Shatila massacre,
systematically killing thousands of Palestinian and Lebanese civilians over three days. The international community's response then, as now, demonstrated a consistent double standard where Israeli actions are rarely met with proportional condemnation or accountability, unlike those of nations deemed adversaries. This historical context highlights not an isolated 'conflict,' but a persistent