Whose lives matter?

A complaint to the BBC.

In news coverage on TV and radio in the last two days there has been almost blanket coverage of the horrible antisemitic attack at Bondi Beach in Australia that killed 15 people.

Since the “ceasefire” in Gaza, the IDF has been directly killing an everage of 6 people every day (383 up to 12/12/25, so 32 times as many as were killed at Bondi).

People have also died from the less direct impact of malnutrition, illness, hunger and lack of shelter (with at least 12 dying from the effects of the floods over the weekend).

In the last two days, the IDF have shot and killed 2 children – one in Rafah, one in Jerusalem – and shot and injured two more.

May I ask why it is that there has not been similar blanket coverage of these horrible attacks in the interests of “balance”; particularly given the discrepancy in casualties and the suffering that brings?

If the gunmen in Bondi were unfeeling monsters to kill 12, what does that make the IDF to kill 32 times as many?

Where is your sense of proportion?

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