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Exit polls from the Israeli regime’s general election reportedly indicate that both prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s bloc and the opposition bloc are projected to fall well short of securing a parliamentary majority.

Results from the polls emerged early Wednesday, a day after the election, projecting 27 seats for Netanyahu’s Likud, ahead of Yashar, led by his principal challenger, former military chief Gadi Eisenkot, which is expected to win 21 or 22 seats, various Israeli outlets reported.

Nevertheless, the two blocs are projected to be roughly level, with Netanyahu’s camp potentially holding around 50 seats, approximately 11 short of a working majority in the 120-member Knesset (Israeli parliament).

According to observers, the results raise the possibility of prolonged political uncertainty and another election within months. Netanyahu would likely remain caretaker prime minister during that period.

Turnout among Palestinian voters was particularly high, with the two Arab political groupings projected to win approximately 18 seats combined.

If the projections hold, Arab parties could prove decisive in determining whether the opposition can form a ruling coalition. However, some opposition officials have ruled out working directly with Arab representatives.

The Joint List, a political alliance of Arab-majority parties is, meanwhile, reportedly less likely to formally join an Israeli-led ruling coalition without a commitment to resume negotiations with the Palestinian Authority.

Netanyahu, Eisenkot trade accusations

Speaking to Likud supporters earlier, Netanyahu claimed his bloc had won a “decisive majority” among voters. He also rejected the prospect of a ruling coalition dependent on Arab parties.

Eisenkot called on the prime minister to retire, saying, “The coalition of failure has lost” settlers’ “trust.”

His campaign focused on Netanyahu’s responsibility for the failures during the .

comes despite two major endorsements by US President Donald Trump in recent days.

Under the Israeli regime’s political guidelines, a party head designated by the president receives 28 days to form a ruling coalition, with a possible 14-day extension.

According to experts, the opposition’s ability to cooperate with Arab parties will potentially prove crucial.

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What we found (2)

Press TV reports exit polls from Israel's general election, attributing the seat projections to Israeli outlets and naming Palestinian voters as the group behind the Arab parties' 18 projected seats. In its own voice it calls the 7 October attack a historic resistance operation that 'ensnared hundreds of Zionists', with no word for capture or hostages, and it calls an exit poll projection an 'electoral failure'. These are minor faults of wording rather than misreporting of the election.

  1. Uses a loaded word

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    “historic al-Aqsa Storm resistance operation of October 7, 2023, when resistance fighters stormed the occupied territories, encircled military outposts, and ensnared hundreds of Zionists”

    Why this matters
    In its own voice Press TV calls the attack 'historic' and a 'resistance operation', and describes the people taken as 'hundreds of Zionists' who were 'ensnared'.
    The impression it gives
    A reader comes away believing everyone seized was a political combatant, and that 'ensnared' describes something less than people being taken captive.
    The context
    The article gives no basis for labelling every person taken a 'Zionist', and it never says that people were taken hostage or held captive. The sentence passes a verdict in the outlet's voice that the facts in the article do not carry.

    How we know

    • Checked against the whole articleIt never uses the words “hostage” and “captive”.

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  2. Uses a loaded word

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    “The Netanyahu bloc’s electoral failure”

    Why this matters
    Press TV states in its own voice that the Netanyahu bloc has failed electorally.
    The impression it gives
    A reader takes the result as settled and Netanyahu's bloc as having lost.
    The context
    The article's own figures are exit poll projections, reported second hand. It says the two blocs are roughly level, and that both fall short of a majority.

    How we know

    • Elsewhere in the article“Exit polls from the Israeli regime’s general election reportedly indicate”
    • Elsewhere in the article“the two blocs are projected to be roughly level”

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What it gets right

  • “Turnout among Palestinian voters was particularly high”

    Press TV names the voters behind the Arab parties as Palestinian, connecting the Palestinian citizens of Israel to their people rather than leaving them only as an 'Arab' bloc.

  • “various Israeli outlets reported”

    The seat projections are attributed to their source rather than stated as results.

  • “Netanyahu claimed his bloc had won a “decisive majority””

    Netanyahu's claim is attributed to him, and the article's own projection of around 50 seats sits against it.

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