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Half truths

A child dies, western media reports. / A half piece of his favorite candy saved / in the jar will never be eaten.
Young woman in pink headscarf and striped robe.
Child holding a cat in war-torn Gaza street.
Artist: @r__________n__________z, Flyers for Falastin, courtesy of the Palestine Poster Project Archives

A child dies, western media reports.
A half piece of his favourite candy saved
in the jar will never be eaten,
his badly-burnt Mom says.

274 were killed in a massacre,
activists tweet. 274 chairs
around the table will be empty
forever, shocked families mourn.

An old woman is killed in an airstrike,
journalists post. Interrupted stories
will never be completed for grandchildren,
a crying little girl says.

A family house is targeted,
everyone killed except for a wounded
twelve-year old boy, journalists post.
A cat named Salam will sleep lonely and hungry tonight.

Media

Always

Report

But

The

Full

Truth

Is …

Nina Quigley.
Mentor: Nina Quigley

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