The major stories we've had that are related to Israel, Gaza, IDF, or Palestine in the recent times are:
IDF officers ordered to fire at unarmed crowds near Gaza food distribution sites - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44402896 - June 2025 (1122 comments - 13 hours on front page)
Several others have spent less time on the front page but have been visible and active for many hours via the /active page.
We want to give the topic of Israel and Gaza fair exposure, as it's obviously an important story and it would feel wrong to pretend it's not happening.
At the same time, every time we have one of these stories on the front page, it turns in to a hellish flamewar, we have to spend all day moderating it, and we still get accusations from either side of the debate that HN is being brigaded or manipulated by activists or operatives for the opposing side. So, there's never any way to make many, or any people feel like HN is covering this topic the right amount, or that the right side of the debate is being given adequate weight in the discussion. Still, we do our best to give the key developments in this awful event sufficient coverage, and to make the discussion threads as free of toxicity as possible.
Regarding the story you're appealing about in this question: it's just got too many triggering aspects to lead to a healthy discussion on HN. Also, it's a several-years-old article, and when we give exposure to major world news, the qualifying criterion is that the story contains "significant new information".
IDF officers ordered to fire at unarmed crowds near Gaza food distribution sites - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44402896 - June 2025 (1122 comments - 13 hours on front page)
‘I witnessed war crimes’ in Gaza – former worker at GHF aid site [video] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44714221 - July 2025 (1278 comments - 13 hours on front page)
Iran asks its people to delete WhatsApp from their devices - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44302752 - June 2025 (509 comments - 10 hours on front page)
Grok: Searching X for "From:Elonmusk (Israel or Palestine or Hamas or Gaza)" - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44527190 - July 2025 (546 comments - 10 hours on front page)
NYPD bypassed facial recognition ban to ID pro-Palestinian student protester - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44604328 - July 2025 (172 comments - 4 hours on front page)
‘No Other Land’ consultant Awdah Hathaleen killed by Israeli settler - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44731958 - July 2025 (831 comments - 7 hours on front page)
Several others have spent less time on the front page but have been visible and active for many hours via the /active page.
We want to give the topic of Israel and Gaza fair exposure, as it's obviously an important story and it would feel wrong to pretend it's not happening.
At the same time, every time we have one of these stories on the front page, it turns in to a hellish flamewar, we have to spend all day moderating it, and we still get accusations from either side of the debate that HN is being brigaded or manipulated by activists or operatives for the opposing side. So, there's never any way to make many, or any people feel like HN is covering this topic the right amount, or that the right side of the debate is being given adequate weight in the discussion. Still, we do our best to give the key developments in this awful event sufficient coverage, and to make the discussion threads as free of toxicity as possible.
Regarding the story you're appealing about in this question: it's just got too many triggering aspects to lead to a healthy discussion on HN. Also, it's a several-years-old article, and when we give exposure to major world news, the qualifying criterion is that the story contains "significant new information".