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What guides Monitor coverage of the Israel-Hamas war?
Mark Sappenfield
Today鈥檚 Daily issue includes three stories on the Israel-Hamas war from different perspectives. It made me think: What is our approach to coverage of the war? So I asked our Middle East editor, Ken Kaplan. He had his answer ready, as though he was just waiting for me to ask.聽
鈥淥ur coverage has been distinctive because we focus on the humanity on both sides,鈥� he told me. 鈥淲e go places other people don鈥檛 鈥� and resolutely.鈥� He points to stories about Israeli civil society coming together, 鈥渁nd not in a warlike way, but to support each other 鈥� that鈥檚 so Monitor.鈥� And he points to stories from on the ground in the Gaza Strip and West Bank 鈥� about mothers and Palestinians unable to get back to their families.
鈥淚t鈥檚 fundamental to what we do,鈥� Ken says, 鈥渓ooking at the humanity in every story.鈥�
