Death toll from sand embankment collapse in Gaza rises to five, including children
Nurit Yohanan is The Times of Israel's Palestinian and Arab world correspondent
Gaza’s Hamas-run Civil Defense agency reports that the death toll from the collapse of a sand embankment at a displacement camp in the Deir al-Balah area of the central Gaza Strip has risen to five.
According to reports from Gaza, at least two children are among the dead.
The Civil Defense agency says the search for missing people is ongoing following the collapse, which was apparently caused by the storm that hit the area in recent days.
The Times of Israel reports that a sand embankment collapsed on a displacement camp in Deir al-Balah, killing five people including children. In its own voice it attaches "Hamas-run" to Gaza's Civil Defence, the civilian rescue service that is the article's only source for the toll. The outlet then drops the qualifier two sentences later.
Uses a loaded word
Minor
“Hamas-run”
Why this matters
The Times of Israel puts "Hamas-run" in front of Gaza's Civil Defence agency, the civilian rescue service that is the article's only source for the toll and the search.
The impression it gives
A reader is nudged to treat the rescue service's death toll as a partisan claim rather than a civilian emergency service's count.
The context
Civil Defence is a civilian search-and-rescue body. The outlet itself drops the qualifier two sentences later, and other coverage names it by its function and its spokesperson. Nothing in the article suggests the toll is in doubt.
How we know
Elsewhere in the article“The Civil Defense agency says the search for missing people is ongoing”