The World’s Silence on Gaza Once Headlines Fade: The Thirty-First Newsletter (2026)
The tapering off of news coverage on the US-Israeli genocide has done little to abate the violence. In fact, its permanence is precisely what allows the world to look away.
By Vijay Prashad
July 30, 2026
Dear friends,
Greetings from the desk of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research.
Some catastrophes disappear because they end. Others disappear because they continue for so long that the world grows accustomed to them. They cease to interrupt television schedules and Instagram reels, just as they no longer command the front pages of newspapers. Financial markets return to their ordinary calculations, the daily machinery of political and economic life resumes its familiar rhythm, and diplomats are asked to put away their briefing books on that tired but painful subject. Yet, the catastrophe remains intact: the US-Israeli genocide of Palestinians in Gaza has not disappeared because of a new peace but because the permanence of the genocide makes it unmarketable news.
There was a time when every explosion in Gaza flashed across my phone – horrible images of children being pulled from rubble, medical workers trying to help patients as the hospital itself gets bombed, and families howling in grief as Israeli bombs obliterated entire Palestinian lineages. Israel’s attacks continue as families flee from one temporary shelter to another and children search through shattered concrete for fragments of lives they once knew. But the world’s attention has shifted elsewhere as the genocide has become routine. We have become comfortably numb.
Read more: https://thetricontinental.org/newsletterissue/silence-on-gaza/
PDF: Gaza30.07.3036
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Roger Waters & Mona Miari – Comfortably Numb Re-Imagined
| أسمع صوت ملاكٍ يناديني باسمي أحرار باقين أحرار.. باقيين لو من الأرض للسما.. طالعين لابد ان تتحرّر فلسطين | I hear an angel’s voice Calling out my name We remain the free We remain the free Even if exiled from earth to the sky Palestine must be free |
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“The essence of childhood has been destroyed”: Israel’s deliberate targeting of Palestinian children in the Occupied Palestinian Territory since 7 October 2023
Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and Israel
United Nations, Human Rights Council, Sixty-second session
June 18, 2026
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See also:
United Nations; Special Rapporteur on the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967
https://www.ohchr.org/en/special-procedures/sr-palestine
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B’Tselem – The Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories
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Breaking the Silence
https://www.breakingthesilence.org.il
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Physician for Human Rights
Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory
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Al-Haq. Defending Human Rights
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Amir Mortasawi (alias Afsane Bahar) (امیر مرتضوی (افسانه بهار 