A DOCUMENTARY exposing the media’s culpability in distorting how the 2014 conflict between Hamas and Israel was portrayed on TV and in the press will screen at this year’s Jewish International Film Festival (JIFF).
Eyeless in Gaza reveals how the terror group manipulated coverage at the time, intimidating and threatening journalists and forcing them to create a false impression of the impact of Israeli shelling by focusing solely on civilian casualties.
The film shows reports that state “children and civilians comprised the vast majority of those killed” and that Israel is targeting hospitals and houses, but according to executive producer Robert Magid both statements are factually flawed.
Read the article in the Australian Jewish News.
[Eyeless in Gaza screens at JIFF on Thursday, November 10 at Event Cinemas, Bondi Junction at 6.45pm, followed by a Q&A with Magid and at 6.45pm on Monday, November 14 at the Classic Cinema, followed by a Q&A with Magid.]