The IDF Spokesperson's Unit cleared for publication that Staff Sergeant Ron Yonatan Roytman, aged 23, from Ashkelon, a squad commander in the Ari Battalion (775), Search and Rescue Brigade, and Sergeant Yuval Shai Svilem, aged 20, from Hod Hasharon, a combat soldier in the battalion, fell in combat during the shooting attack on Friday morning at the Judea Junction. Three additional soldiers from the battalion were lightly injured. The soldiers were evacuated to receive medical treatment at a hospital, and their families have been notified.
IDF forces engaged the two terrorists in a 20-minute gun battle before eliminating them. Magen David Adom (MDA) reported that the remaining victims of the deadly terrorist attack sustained light injuries and are receiving treatment at hospitals. An initial investigation indicates that the two terrorists, 27-year-old Hamas-affiliated residents of Hebron, arrived armed with an M4 rifle and a handgun. After realizing they would not be able to reach their intended target on Highway 35, the two opened fire at the checkpoint.
During a situational assessment held following the attack, IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir stated: "This was a serious terrorist attack. The soldiers' swift actions prevented an even more severe attack and further harm to civilians and security forces. A large quantity of ammunition was found in the vehicle the terrorists used to reach the scene of the attack, which was intended to be used in a larger-scale attack."
Left out here: Drops what it reported before
The article ends on the army chief's words and never says that Israeli occupation forces then shut Hebron and Halhul, barring entry and exit, and that the government announced plans to expel the residents of a Hebron neighbourhood and demolish there. Arutz Sheva reported this itself earlier the same day. Without it, a reader sees the story close with the attack stopped, not with two cities placed under siege.
Arutz Sheva names the two Israeli soldiers killed at the checkpoint near Hebron in full, with ages, towns and units, and writes the killing of the two Palestinian attackers as "eliminating them". It never gives the two men's names, although Ynet did. It also leaves out the closure of Hebron and Halhul that followed, which the outlet itself reported earlier the same day.
Writes the death out
Severe
“before eliminating them”
Why this matters
The word "eliminating" stands in for the killing of two men. Nowhere does the article say that soldiers killed them.
The impression it gives
A reader comes away with a threat removed, not with two people shot dead by soldiers.
The context
Two Palestinian men from Hebron were killed by the soldiers. Ynet's report of the same event says plainly that the battalion's soldiers "killed the two Palestinian terrorists". The word kill appears nowhere in this article.
The article ends on the army chief's words and never says that Israeli occupation forces then shut Hebron and Halhul, barring entry and exit, and that the government announced plans to expel the residents of a Hebron neighbourhood and demolish there. Arutz Sheva reported this itself earlier the same day. Without it, a reader sees the story close with the attack stopped, not with two cities placed under siege.