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Navigation Primary Navigation Home Singapore Asia Pacific World Business Entertainment Sports Technology Top Stories Most Popular Secondary Navigation Africa Europe Latin America Middle East North America Search Search: Despite Gaza toll, Israeli media focus on Israel By AMY TEIBEL and IAN DEITCH,Associated Press Writers AP - 2 hours 20 minutes ago ASHKELON, Israel - Israel's TV screens, radio broadcasts and newspapers have been filled with images of terrified Israelis fleeing to shelters, damage from Hamas rocket barrages and casualty reports. While international media have focused on Israel's assault on Gaza, including the deaths of more than 900 Palestinians, Israeli media are reporting the war through a different prism. With almost no access to Gaza, and an overwhelming sense the offensive is just, they have emphasized the Israeli side, which has suffered 13 deaths. Images of lifeless Palestinian babies, bombed-out apartment buildings, and donkey carts piled with blankets and mattresses as Gazans seek to flee are buried in Israeli newscasts and newspaper pages, almost detached from the narrative. "Israel is at war now, and naturally, the images that most interest it and the reports that most interest it are what is happening with the soldiers in battle who have families at home, and everything that has to do with the Grad and Qassam (rocket) fire," said Israeli Channel 10 TV commentator Motti Kirshenbaum. "But to say the Israeli public isn't exposed to everything that is happening is not accurate," he said, because Israeli media do cover it and Israelis have access to international media, including Arab channels. Many Israelis, however, distrust foreign media and don't turn to it for news. They think the outside world is dismissive of the trauma Gaza militants have inflicted on southern Israel during eight years of rocket fire. They feel the world has not grasped that the rockets amount to a death by a thousand cuts that could ultimately make parts of the country unlivable, and that Israel's inability to stop them is read by its Arab foes as a fatal weakness. "We watch only Israeli TV," said Yael Weinberg, 24, who works in a Jerusalem bookstore. "Foreign TV is not doing a good job at covering the conflict. They do not try to understand our side." Neither side has shown much attention to the other's ordeal. Arab coverage of the war tilts heavily toward the Palestinian suffering, with the flagship TV station, Al-Jazeera, focusing on grisly images of the dead and wounded and calling the offensive a "war on Gaza" _ suggesting it's a campaign against civilians, who are thought to account for about half the casualties. Al-Jazeera has paid marginal attention to the Palestinian rocket fire, although it has carried images of Israelis affected by rocket attacks and broadcast footage of Israeli wounded. With one-eighth of Israel within range of Palestinian rockets, Israeli newscasters regularly break into programming to report on an incoming rocket alert or landing. And with Israeli casualties low, the actual fighting off-limits to reporters and lots of air time to fill, soft news often carries the day. On Monday, state-owned Israel Radio even ran a spot on how chickens raised near the Gaza border have grown accustomed to rocket fire. Critical items on the war are rare, and those who express empathy with the Palestinian people court angry viewer responses. One top news anchor, Yonit Levy of Channel 2 TV, has drawn the ire of more than 30,000 petitioners for saying at the end of one broadcast that "it's hard to convince the world that the war is just when we have one dead and the Palestinian people have 350." Israeli media think local, and that's not unique to Israel; U.S. news reports, for example, will focus on Americans killed in a terror attack or a plane crash or a battle, even though people from other countries also died. "The journalists who live here are not from another planet. They come from within Israel. They have families and soldiers who are fighting. There is no doubt that the Israeli journalist identifies first with his side," Kirshenbaum said. "That doesn't mean they don't have to show the other side's truth," he added. "But I don't think they have to show it in the same proportion as Al-Jazeera and some of the channels in Europe that took a political stance against Israel from the very first day." Accounts of an Israeli infant injured slightly by rocket shrapnel on Jan. 6 outnumbered reports on the deaths of more than 70 Palestinians killed in Israeli assaults that day, including an assault near a U.N. school that killed some 40 people. On Channel 10 TV, that attack was sandwiched between reports on three soldiers killed, updates on fighting and diplomatic efforts to reach a cease-fire. Israeli TV stations inform their viewers that far more graphic pictures of the death and destruction in Gaza exist, but say they don't show them out of respect for the dead. Similar self-censorship exists with regard to Israeli deaths in Palestinian suicide attacks. That is also the policy of Al-Arabiya, the Dubai-based, Saudi-owned channel, which doesn't show graphic footage of the dead and wounded. "I don't think that it's ethical or fair to the families of the victims and our viewers," said Nabil Khatib, an Al-Arabiya executive editor. "You don't have to show a disfigured body of a child from up close to show the tragedy and human suffering." Further influencing Israel's coverage is the government's near-total barring of Israeli and foreign media from Gaza, except for limited pool reporting. Israeli reporters have been embedded briefly with Israeli troops, but haven't been allowed unfettered access to Gaza, and so have come away with the soldiers' side of the story. For the most part, images from the front line have come compliments of the military spokesman's office, which has given soldiers cameras. Oft-aired clips released by the military showed blindfolded Palestinian prisoners and Israeli soldiers wearing night vision goggles and war paint. Other footage released by the military showed buildings in Gaza hit from the air. Palestinian lawmaker Hanan Ashrawi accuses Israelis of becoming "one unanimous cheering team" for their military, detaching themselves "from the cruelty and the horror of what they're doing." "At a certain point ... people have to face themselves," she said. "They have to look inwards and they have to understand the nature and the implications of what they're doing." Bracha Theodorou of the southern Israeli city of Ashkelon remembers the days 20 years ago when Israelis and Gazans would freely mingle in each other's cities. She says Ashrawi is just plain wrong. "I feel for them. I really do," says Theodorou, who was born in Israel but raised in New York City. "It's despicable. It's war. War isn't very pretty. But I don't want to see the bloodshed," she said. "But don't think we don't know what's happening. We do." ___ Associated Press writer Hadeel al-Shalchi in Cairo, Egypt, and Barbara Surk in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, contributed to this report. 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Wednesday, 14 January 2009 - Despite Gaza toll, Israeli media focus on Israel