As we mark this sombre anniversary, the discourse surrounding Gaza remains ensnared in euphemisms and abstractions that obscure the brutal reality: genocide. In Gaza, international law prohibits the targeting of civilians, collective punishment, and the occupation of land. When political lies become institutionalised, they are no longer deviations but the architecture of a manipulated world. To accept political lies without scrutiny is to become complicit in their consequences. Mary Turfah examines Israeli officials’ weaponisation of language, particularly that of medicine, in an attempt to reframe their genocide in Gaza.