Israeli Hostages Were Brutally Executed; The Media Told the World That They ‘Died’

Rachel Goldberg-Polin delivering a eulogy at her son’s funeral in Jerusalem on Sept. 2, 2024. Photo: Taken by author

There’s not much worse than waking up to the news that six Israeli hostages had been murdered by their Hamas captors just days before their bodies were found by the IDF.

And yet, some media outlets tried to paint their vicious murders as “deaths.” Deaths — as if they passively died of natural causes.

On Sunday, senior Hamas official Izzat al-Rishq blamed the...