“It’s hard to understand what is actually happening,” a senior manager at a foreign media outlet working in Israel explained. “In a lot of cases, we have official reports that there were no strikes or damage only to discover later that a target was hit. We can’t report or confirm so we don’t know if it happened or not.

“We have a partial understanding of the reality on the ground,” the senior manager admitted. “Our coverage of the war is not truthful.”