Iran, Gaza and the politics of counting the dead

There is a crisis of belief in Western media, one that has little to do with evidence and everything to do with whose deaths align with the interests of empire.

For two and a half years, Western media has scrutinised every dead Palestinian, and the ways in which their bodies were maimed, broken and burned in Gaza. Were they real people? If they were, were they truly dead? If dead, were they actually killed by Israel's bombs, bullets, torture and siege? If they were killed, how could anyone know they were not combatants, and thus actually "deserved it"?