Hawzah News Agency- Channel 12, Israel’s most-watched news network, aired shocking images of malnourished children and famine-stricken families in Gaza—offering many Israelis a first-hand look at the humanitarian crisis.
Indeed, the Channel 12 report was too graphic for some viewers. When presenter Yonit Levi concluded the segment by suggesting, “Maybe it’s time to understand that this isn’t a PR failure. It’s a moral failure, and we need to start from there'', she came under criticism.
The result is that a majority of Israeli Jews favor ending the war, but not by a large margin—just 53 percent, according to a June poll from the Institute for National Security Studies (among Israeli Arabs, the rate is 89 percent). Palestinian suffering isn’t behind the desire to end the war as much as it is the fact that, since the fighting started up again in March, the war is widely seen as pointless. the Israeli army has failed to rescue a single hostage in that time, and the number of soldiers killed in action has been on the rise recently.
Growing European protests and sanctions, alongside rising anti-Israel sentiment, may slowly influence Israeli public perception—especially as citizens traveling abroad face hostility.
Source: Foreign Policy
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