WASHINGTON

A group of Pro-Palestinian activists held a protest Tuesday outside the headquarters of major US news outlets in Washington, DC, accusing them of biased coverage of Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza.

Gathering at 400 North Capitol Street outside the offices of NBC, Fox News, MSNBC, The Hill and others, demonstrators carried signs saying “Stop media complicity in genocide” and “Media lies, Gaza dies.”

“For over 22 months, Gaza has been under relentless assault, (with) tens of thousands of people dead, many of them children,” said organizer Hazami Barmada. “Yet many of the media continue to remain silent, evasive or complicit.”

“What comes out of this building shapes the stories that the world believes, and right now, those stories are killing people,” she continued.

Barmada criticized coverage that uses passive language such as “people are starving” instead of saying “Israel is starving people,” adding that it “normalizes mass death” and sidelines Palestinian voices.

Israel has killed more than 61,000 Palestinians, mostly women and children, in response to the Oct. 7, 2023 attack by the Palestinian group Hamas that killed nearly 1,200 Israelis and led to around 250 hostages being taken, according to local officials.

Israel's brutal military campaign has devastated the enclave, collapsed its health system and caused widespread food shortages.

Israel has maintained a blockade on Gaza for 18 years and since March 2 has sealed all border crossings, blocking the entry of humanitarian aid and worsening already dire conditions in the enclave.