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Al Jazeera English · Gaza · 16 Aug 2026

One side gets far more space, and the dead are labelled, the other side is not.

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The double standard

The article names and qualifies Israeli actors with precision while Palestinian deaths are reported in aggregate with no named perpetrator in the sentence, and Hamas-led violence is labelled by its perpetrator while Israeli strikes are rendered agentless.

How it builds, in Ceasefire deaths sentence versus Ben-Gvir attribution block

  1. Hamas named as actor for its violence

    the Hamas-led attacks in October 2023

    Perpetrator explicitly named and labelled as leader of the attack

  2. Editorial characterisation inserted without attribution

    Israel waged a genocidal war on the territory

    Contested legal term presented as established fact, no source or qualifier attached

  3. Anonymous experts hedge Israeli policy claim

    International lawyers have warned that mass, forced or engineered emigration of this kind could amount to ethnic cleansing.

    Claim hedged with conditional 'could amount to' and attributed to unnamed 'international lawyers'

  4. Editorial judgement on consequence of Israeli conduct

    That record has drawn international criticism, but without serious consequence.

    Journalist's own assessment inserted without attribution

The same decision, both sides

Use of contested legal or moral characterisation without attribution

Israel's conduct is described as a 'genocidal war' with no source or qualifier, presented as the article's own framing.

Israel waged a genocidal war on the territory

The potentially equivalent charge of ethnic cleansing against Israeli policy is hedged and attributed to unnamed experts.

International lawyers have warned that mass, forced or engineered emigration of this kind could amount to ethnic cleansing.

Identification of victims by group membership versus offence

Israeli victims of Palestinian violence are identified by nationality, making their civilian status implicit.

deadly attacks on Israelis

Palestinian detainees are identified primarily by their legal category and offence, not by nationality or civilian status.

Palestinians convicted of deadly attacks

What a reader is left with. A reader is left with the impression that Israeli state violence is an established, editorially confirmed genocide while Palestinian violence requires perpetrator labelling, and that the 1,250 Palestinian deaths are a contested figure dependent on a single partisan source, creating an asymmetry in the certainty attached to each side's harms.

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Israeli minister calls for killing ’30 to 40′ Palestinians in Gaza nightly

Israel’s far-right national security minister, Itamar Ben-Gvir, says Israeli forces should “kill 30 or 40” people in Gaza every night and go beyond “those who pose a danger … at that particular moment”. Ben-Gvir made the comments to Rom Braslavski – a former Israeli captive held in Gaza as Israel waged a genocidal war on the territory after the Hamas-led attacks in October 2023 – in a podcast episode that surfaced on Sunday and was shared widely across Palestinian media. Recommended Stories list of 2 items list 1 of 2 Kushner meets Hamas leaders in Egypt to push Trump’s Gaza plan list 2 of 2 US-Iran agreement is set to expire: What to know end of list “There are people there who are not worthy of life. They shouldn’t live. They’re not even people,” Ben-Gvir added while calling for the targeted killings of Palestinians in Gaza. The remarks are the latest in a long record of extreme statements from Ben-Gvir, who sits in Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s coalition government and controls Israel’s police and prison services. The far-right minister has gained influence in Israel as the country heads towards elections on October 27. Ben-Gvir told Braslavski that he disagreed with Netanyahu’s decision to scale back military strikes in Gaza under the current “ceasefire” , arguing instead for renewed targeted assassinations that would go beyond people considered active threats. He has no formal authority over the military and cannot order strikes himself, though he sits on Israel’s security cabinet, a group of senior ministers who help shape war and security policy. Ben-Gvir also promised Braslavski that he would seek to allow him to personally take part if prisoners are executed under Israel’s recently enacted death penalty law for Palestinians convicted in military courts of deadly attacks on Israelis. Advertisement “I have a personal request, and I am truly looking you in the eyes, minister. Let me be the one who hangs them,” Braslavski told Ben-Gvir. “I don’t want a rope; I want a button on a gun. With my own hands, I will execute every terrorist in the state of Israel,” he added. Ben-Gvir replied: “I will turn the world upside down to make that happen. I promise you that I will do everything I can and turn the world upside down until it happens.” In the discussion, Ben-Gvir also called for Palestinians to be encouraged to leave Gaza permanently, alongside new Israeli settlement of the territory, telling Braslavski he saw “all of Gaza as ours”, a comment he has repeated on many occasions. International lawyers have warned that mass, forced or engineered emigration of this kind could amount to ethnic cleansing. Israeli strikes have killed more than 1,250 people in Gaza since the “ceasefire” took hold in October, according to Gaza’s Ministry of Health. Ben-Gvir’s comments fit a pattern stretching back decades, from his teenage involvement with the outlawed nationalist Kahanist movement. As minister, he has championed the death penalty as a default sentence for Palestinians convicted of deadly attacks , and has boasted of deliberately worsening conditions in Israeli prisons holding Palestinian detainees. That record has drawn international criticism, but without serious consequence. He has been sanctioned by the United Kingdom and some European Union states, but this has not had an effect on his actions.

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