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Reading the article from Il Messaggero dated July 21, 2025, is like flipping through a manual of journalistic manipulation: the report is there, the deaths are there, the massacre is there. The only thing missing is the truth.

For example, the article omits the name of the organization distributing the aid: the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), an Israeli-American NGO officially tasked with replacing the UN's aid channels. Since May, it has been running four distribution centers in the southern and central parts of the Gaza Strip. Articles in Corriere and Repubblica report that these centers have become constant targets of armed gangs and Hamas militants. But for Il Messaggero, they simply do not exist.

In the piece titled "Gunfire Again on the Crowd. IDF Sweeps Through the Strip. Clash Over Deportation", the aid trucks are mentioned only as follows: "At least 84 dead in Israeli raids: 73 were waiting for aid." It says, "The IDF later confirmed it had fired warning shots near an aid distribution center," but never mentions who was distributing the aid, who was managing the center, whether there had been clashes or armed infiltrations. The cause of death is implicit and singular: Israel.

Later, the article repeats: "The army later confirmed it had fired warning shots near an aid distribution center. At least 73 Palestinians are said to have been killed." No mention of the GHF, no reference to the fact that reports describe two-way gunfire, with Hamas deliberately trying to sow chaos around the trucks. No questions, no verification.

Il Messaggero takes the version provided by Palestinian sources — or Hamas itself — as fact, without any filter. It automatically attributes to the IDF the intention of targeting civilians. In reality, according to other outlets, it is precisely the GHF that is being targeted by saboteurs: because it distributes food, because it undermines Hamas's support, because it removes the leverage of hunger.

The rhetorical mechanism is subtle but devastating: Hamas's narrative is repeated and amplified — the story that desperate, starving crowds gather and are struck down for no reason. But this narrative ignores the fact that Hamas itself systematically sabotages convoys and infiltrates crowds with armed militants to incite violence. In doing so, Il Messaggero ends up offering a political and moral justification for Hamas's violence, portraying the disorder as a legitimate reaction, and rewarding the strategy of using civilians as human shields and tools of propaganda.

In Il Messaggero's account, those who distribute bread become executioners. Those who fire to protect aid become murderers. Those who cause chaos to sabotage delivery become invisible.

By the end of the article, the reader knows there are 84 dead — and the only source is Hamas's health ministry, i.e., the terrorists. They know Israel fired shots. They know nothing about who distributed the aid, who caused the chaos, who manipulated the crowd. This Messaggero article isn't just a mutilated truth — it's a lie from beginning to end.