Israeli media touched on the media campaign that Tel Aviv is facing against the backdrop of the occupation army’s operation in Rafah, south of the Gaza Strip, in addition to the statements of a former American general about the difficulty of fighting in Gaza than in Iraq and Afghanistan.
In the first topic, the Hebrew channel “Kan 11” referred to two prominent media campaigns, one for opponents of the Israeli military operation in Rafah that began 3 weeks ago, and the second for its supporters, describing the Israeli campaign as “relatively successful.”
She pointed out that the counter-campaign – which is based on an image reading “All Eyes on Rafah” with a picture of the desert and tents – has tens of millions of shares on social media platforms in the face of the Israeli campaign that says, “Where were your eyes on October 7?” It has hundreds of thousands of posts.
The channel added that the Israeli media campaign is unable to compete with its counterpart, and that the “Meta” platform is facing difficulty in combating the matter, “so it has spread widely recently.”
The channel quoted Ronit Hud, vice president of the Israeli Hartmann Institute, as saying, “The All Eyes on Rafah campaign has achieved the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) a great success at the level of public relations.”
“Gaza is more complicated”
The same channel also conducted an exclusive interview with the former director of the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), General David Petraeus, during which he said that Gaza is much more complex than what American soldiers faced in the Iraqi cities of Ramadi, Fallujah, Baquba, and Mosul combined because of the 550 kilometers of tunnels.
Petraeus added: “There is an enemy that knows the region well, and so far has more than 100 hostages, and is using civilians as human shields,” according to his description.
The Israeli Channel 13 devoted a large amount of space to talking about the media attack by journalists on officials of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the White House in the United States during two press conferences that followed the recent Rafah massacre.
The channel presented some of the journalists’ questions, most of which focused on what was happening in Rafah, amid questions such as, “Has Israel crossed the red line drawn by the United States there or not?”
She quoted her correspondent in Washington as saying that she had “never seen such energies before among journalists in the United States since the seventh of last October,” after Washington set a red line that Israel would not enter Rafah and convinced everyone that this would happen.
She indicated that American officials have become unable to confront questions about what is happening in Rafah, stressing that there is propaganda and media damage to the administration of US President Joe Biden, and of course Israel.