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Israeli society treats the martyrdom of the nine children of the Najjar family as ordinary news. The bodies of nine young children have been added to the thousands piled up by their army's aircraft, tanks, and vehicles over the course of nearly 600 days of continuous war. "I imagine I brought the war with me. On my skin. A shroud wrapping my head. Pus under my nails." This verse from the poem by Somali poet Warsan Shire perhaps describes the state of Palestinian physician Alaa Najjar, for whom the repercussions of the war have reached unbearable levels. A crime so loud and blatant that no one can bear it; or perhaps only the Palestinians, who have repeatedly been subjected to this type of tragedy over the past seven decades since the Nakba, as Israeli missiles have turned thousands of tender bodies into limbs or charred corpses. The deaths of the Najjar family's children weighed as much as a feather, filling the life of the Palestinian pediatrician, who lives on because she was not at home at the time of the bombing, while Israeli warplanes blew the bodies of nine of her children into pieces. To its perpetrators, this deafening death seems like nothing more than the buzzing of a fly around an ear that needs to be swatted away. Israelis fear that the Najjar family's crime will exacerbate global outrage against them on social media. Political affiliation influences one's stance on the crime. Most of those on the extreme right and supporters of Netanyahu, Smotrich, and Ben-Gvir, the loudest voices, ignore it, while those who do address it consider it a victory and demand more. Opponents of the extreme right-wing government, however, believe the crime will only increase the global outrage that haunts Israel everywhere, recalling the murder of Hind Rajab, which became a global public opinion issue. While the Israeli public is greatly influenced by media positions, only a few Israeli media outlets covered the horrific crime, not with the aim of holding the perpetrators accountable. The Hebrew media is a cornerstone of Zionist propaganda that practices widespread deception, but rather by fabricating flimsy justifications that ensure the continuation of the massacre. Family lost 9 children in one day, May 24, 2025 (Hani Al-Shaer/Anadolu Agency) The Ynet website is reporting the crime from foreign media outlets, as if it happened on another continent, not just a stone's throw away from the separation wall through which its military correspondents enter and exit as if on a tourist trip. In a report published Saturday evening, it stated that "the world continues to focus on the Gaza Strip, while the main headlines are dominated by a single operation attributed to the Israeli army, which targeted the home of pediatrician Alaa Al-Najjar, killing nine of her children." The Hebrew news site did not forget to mention the details of the "incident," as it described it. It noted that the incident occurred while Dr. al-Najjar was practicing her profession at Nasser Medical Complex, where she learned that her home had been bombed and her children killed. The website focused primarily on the crime as an event that came at a time when Israel was struggling to maintain its severely shaken global standing. It noted the coverage the crime received in major international media outlets. In its review of the news, it noted that the occupation army did not respond to inquiries from international media outlets seeking comment on the matter, and that it later announced in a brief statement that "an aircraft attacked a number of suspects found in a building near forces operating in the Khan Yunis area, which is considered a dangerous combat zone. Civilians were instructed to evacuate for their own protection. We are examining the possibility of harming uninvolved persons." The Hebrew website did not forget to translate sections of these reports, which were interviews with doctors who were al-Najjar's colleagues, "who confirmed that her husband, the doctor who was seriously injured, and her son Adam (11 years old), had no connection to armed organizations," as if, had they had, the crime would have been justified. Issues and People 9 Small Coffins... Dr. Alaa Al-Najjar bids farewell to her martyred children. Readers' comments on the news exceeded a thousand, ranging from attacking Benjamin Netanyahu's government, which has caused Israel's global standing to decline and harm Israelis themselves, to repeated demands for the release of the detainees. Others called for an end to the war, considering it "purposeless." Yet other commentators deemed the crime justified, repeating statements by Israeli ministers who were unashamed to call for the killing of children more than once, and considering that "every Palestinian child is a potential future enemy." In Yedioth Ahronoth, only one news item appeared, and its content was not significantly different from the previous ones, with a reminder that "the catastrophe that befell the children of the Al-Najjar family exceeded in its horror that which befell her colleague, Dr. Izz al-Din Abu al-Aish," referring to the Palestinian doctor whose daughters were killed by the occupation army during the 2009 aggression on the Gaza Strip. The situation wasn't much different for television channels. Channel 13 almost copied the Ynet news story, which had also been relayed from foreign media, emphasizing the exposure of Israel's "shame" to the world. Meanwhile, Haaretz, a left-wing newspaper, didn't go much further than its colleagues; in fact, its report, also from foreign media, was more concise.