In Gaza, Palestinians remain under total siege. Food is restricted. Aid is blocked. Hospitals barely function. Families are starving. People are still being killed. In the West Bank, Israeli military raids, mass arrests, home demolitions, and violent settler attacks continue every day.

What many U.S. media outlets are calling a “ceasefire” is not peace, and it is not an end to violence.

Calling this a ceasefire misleads the public and hides the reality on the ground. It suggests the violence has stopped when it has only shifted forms. Bombing reductions do not end the occupation. They do not end apartheid. They do not end forced displacement or collective punishment.

Journalists and media executives have a responsibility to report the truth clearly and accurately. That means naming what is happening in Gaza and the West Bank as ongoing violence, occupation, and mass killing, not repeating talking points that minimize or obscure reality.

Media framing matters. Euphemistic language erases Palestinian lives and shields U.S. and Israeli policy from scrutiny. It turns an ongoing system of domination into a temporary “conflict” and treats genocide and occupation as a matter of debate rather than a documented reality under international law.

Demand that Fox, ABC, NBC, MS NOW, and CNN stop calling this a ceasefire and start reporting honestly on what Palestinians are enduring.