US government, media, largely ignore Israeli massacre of Palestinians protesting end to Gaza blockade

Good Friday wasn't good for the 2 million Palestinians penned up in Gaza, the world's largest open prison, blockaded by Israel since 2007. Fifteen were killed and hundreds wounded by Israeli snipers set up to disperse the essentially unarmed protesters. This was the first of many marches planned over the next six weeks to draw attention to the humanitarian crisis the Israeli blockade imposes in Gaza. Palestinians there would starve but for relief from United Nations Relief and Works Agency, whose US budget has just been cut by Trump.

I'm old enough to remember the Shapeville Massacre of March 21,1960, when South African police mowed down 69 blacks protesting Apartheid. Becoming aware of this latest massacre online, I turned on cable news for an update of this critically important story. Alas, the talking heads were spinning around over Roseanne's return, cabinet members' spending profligacy and Mueller's latest subpoenas.
Next day the Trib buried it on Page 6, dropping it to Page 32 this morning. Not a word I'm aware of from the White House or Congress. What's worse? Man's inhumanity to man...or the arbiters of public information and good governance ignoring it.

Walt Zlotow

Glen Ellyn, IL