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Source: https://www.spiked-online.com/2025/01/22/how-hamas-became-invisible/
How Hamas Became Invisible
(Spiked-UK) Tim Black - Almost as soon as the Israel-Hamas ceasefire was declared, footage of Hamas fighters on Gaza's streets was being broadcast to the world. We saw masked assailants, armed with Kalashnikovs and sporting green headbands, riding pick-up trucks through crowds of cheering men. Many in the Western media appeared surprised at the sight of Hamas out and about. Watching or reading the media coverage, you could be forgiven for thinking that the Israel Defense Forces were not really fighting Hamas at all, but Palestinian civilians. This erasure of Hamas from the conflict it started serves the anti-Israel narrative. It allows for the fiction that this is an act of "genocide" against the Palestinians. Hamas is constantly being "invisibilized." It is an absent combatant in a war in which only Israeli forces are seemingly observable. The unspeakable act that started this awful conflict on Oct. 7 has been reduced to a mere moment in a much longer tale of supposed Israeli aggression.