Another episode of the series 'Escalating violence between Israel and the Palestinians', that is how journalist Joris Luyendijk described the media coverage of resurgent violence back in 2018. “This is a media war and not a war with a lot of media coverage”, he argued. After years of, relatively, media silence, the conflict tragically made the front pages again. How did the European media report on the worst rounds of violence since the outbreak in 2014?

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