For Israel, accusations of war crimes like genocide–and the legal consequences that could result–pose a major threat to what Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu calls ‘The War of Redemption’. The best strategy to circumvent international law during wartime? Prevent evidence of such crimes from being documented in the first place. In the wake of dead journalists, military censorship and newsroom rubble lies room for interpretation. With only a small stream of reporting leaving the Gaza Strip, Israel has drafted its own wartime accounts, while the rest of the world must decide whether or not to believe them.