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Her reports don't just call out single On the other hand, CNN decided to
actions by Israel, they point to trends. broadcast a video documenting one of

She says that apartheid, blockades, and many IDF attacks on palestinian civilians
collective punishment are how the near aid trucks in Gaza and other articles
Occupied Territories are run. This kind of of these recurring attacks shows an unusual
big-picture thinking, coming from a UN shift in the way CNN reports. The footage

mandate holder, is a problem for the was drawn from Palestinian sources and
story that keeps Israeli policy from being contextualized by health officials’ reports
held responsible. The U.S. sanctions, documenting the deaths of at least 49
issued under a Trump executive order people in a 24-hour period.

originally designed to target the However, CNN stopped short of naming
International Criminal Court, accuse her the responsible party. Instead, the report
of targeting American and Israeli framed the story through language like
nationals without consent and engaging "according to Palestinian health officials"

in so-called “economic warfare” for her and avoided direct attribution to the Israeli
efforts to document Israeli violations and military. It portrayed the suffering without
recommend ICC action against both naming the system that produced it.
Israeli officials and international Most importantly, this change from how

corporations potentially complicit in CNN usually tells stories wasn't a complete
crimes against Palestinians. The change. Soon after showing the Gaza part,
accusations she’s facing are broad and CNN put out a long report based on the
unsubstantiated in legal terms. Albanese Dinah Project , a group of Israeli

has neither encouraged violence nor researchers who collected testimonies from
fabricated data. Her crime is returned hostages and first responders. The
epistemological as she re-centers report accused Hamas of widespread,
international law, not geopolitical systematic sexual violence. CNN

interest. highlighted these accounts without
The actual risk she presents is symbolic, skepticism, presenting them as evidence of
that she shows that criticism of Israel's Hamas usage of rape as a war tool.
actions can come within This asymmetry is not a sign of

intergovernmental institutions like the fragmentation inside the CNN, I think it’s
UN, not just from activists or leftists. The deeper than that. Palestinian suffering is
fact that she's being punished shows how shown only when it is fragmented and
far the U.S. will go to keep control over depoliticized. Meanwhile Israeli “suffering”

what justice means, even if it means is portrayed with structural framing and
shutting down the very systems it says it moral clarity. This selective editorial
supports as the guardian of freedom in framing shows that CNN’s broader
the world. narrative remains aligned with the political

priorities of the U.S. government.

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