In Support of Writers Against the War On Gaza's Call for Comprehensive Coverage of the Israeli Genocide
In September 2025, Save the Children estimated that Israeli forces had been killing more than one Palestinian child per hour since the start of Israel’s genocide in the Gaza Strip—or more than 20,000 children in less than two years. By the end of the month, Gaza’s Ministry of Health reported over 66,000 people killed and more than 168,500 injured, the vast majority women and children.
Meanwhile, Israel’s stranglehold on Western news media has been deafening. As Writers Against the War On Gaza has repeatedly noted, the ongoing Israeli genocide in Gaza should be front-page news —- yet it is often conspicuously absent from Western media. In response, WAWOG urges the public to “flood the newsrooms,” encouraging readers everywhere to email editors at leading news outlets and demand truthful, comprehensive coverage of Israel’s continuing war crimes in Gaza.
The Industrial Workers of the World Freelance Journalists Union fully endorses WAWOG’s call to hold Western news media accountable. We ask our members, fellow printing and publishing workers, and readers everywhere to use WAWOG’s contact lists and templates to demand that the Israeli genocide in Gaza is covered accurately, prominently and with the urgency and gravity it deserves.