Also on the Saudi website Elaph, Emirati political analyst Salem Al-Ketbi addressed the difference between the Israeli discourse, which sanctifies life, and Hamas's discourse, which ascribes no value to the Gazans' lives and regards them as mere statistics.
He also stated that, on October 7, Hamas committed crimes that contravene the values of Islam, and called on the Palestinians to do away with the "sick" Hamas leaders.
He wrote: "Amid the deadly conflict in the Gaza Strip, there is a conspicuous difference between the media discourse of the two warring sides, which reflects a discrepancy in their attitude to the value of human beings and the importance of human life.
While the Israeli army, represented by its Arabic-language spokesperson Avichay Adraee, tries to present a discourse that distinguishes between the [Gazan] civilians and Hamas, the leaders of the terrorist Hamas use a discourse that ascribes no importance to fatalities and treats the victims as mere numbers and statistics.