If you were to watch your television screens over the past week you would think there is a war going on in Gaza.

That there are in fact two opposing sides and in this war Israel is simply defending it’s borders and it’s people. We are told this is a war between Hamas ‘militants’ and the democratic nation that is Israel.

The news channels many of whom have been barred from entering Gaza continue to give us a false account of what is happening on the ground. For all their journalistic integrity why do they continue to tell us that this is in fact a war between two equally equipped sides?

After a week when women and children have been murdered our news channels are more content with reporting that it was the fault of Hamas that this took place in the first place.

It was Hamas who started this war and it is only Hamas who can end it. If Hamas don’t want to negotiate then the people of Gaza will die in their hundreds and thousands more will be bombed to smithereens.

There is no mention that of the fact that over the years Palestinian land has been stolen on a daily basis. No mention of Israeli settlements. No mention that Israel has more weapons of mass destruction that any other nation in the middle east.

There is also no mention of how Gaza has been enclosed for many months and is nothing more than an open air prison. There is no mention of how Gaza is completely locked out from the rest of the world with no water or power.

If this was occurring anywhere else in the world there would be outrage from governments. There would be UN resolutions in their dozens and politicians would be lining-up to condemn the attacks.

As soon as the ground offensive began on Saturday night we were presented with another series of baseless statements which news channels were more than willing to report on as facts without question.

We were told how Israel has leafleted residents and told them to ‘leave’. Where the residents are supposed to run too when Gaza is imprisoned on all sides is anyone's guess.

There were repeated reports of how Israel was keen maintain humanitarian supplies into Gaza without actually giving us evidence of that aid was.

There has also been a concerted effort to justify the killing of innocent people. It is okay that over 400 people have died in Gaza due to military shelling because Hamas is in power.

Any mention of Israeli aggresion must be accompanied by a statement of Hamas extremism and rocket attacks.

The truth even the British public has realised is that this is simply another attempt to grab land and push the Palestinian people into extinction. There is no intention on the part of Israel for any sort of peaceful resolution. There is one aim and one aim only. To remove what is left of this fragmented population from their borders.

This is not a war of any sort. This is murder and genocide before our very eyes and it is sickening to see our governments sit by and tell is it is something else.

Does anyone in the world actually believe that if there were no rocket attacks of any sort or someone else was in charge in Gaza that peace would prevail?

Strategically Israel must survive by any means necessary and if that means the west has to sacrifice all it’s ideals for this to come about then so be it.