Arutz Sheva / Israel National News, on Gaza, 24 October 2026

Arutz Sheva reports two killings in Gaza entirely in the Israeli army's words, writing the deaths out as eliminations of "threats" and calling the two men "terrorists" in its own voice with no name, no evidence and no independent source. The army's claim that its troops act "in accordance with the agreement" closes the piece with nothing set against it, and the article never tells its reader that Israeli forces have gone on killing Palestinians in Gaza throughout the ceasefire, as this outlet itself has reported.

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What we found

  1. Writes the death out

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    “eliminates terrorists”

    What the words do
    The headline uses "eliminates" for the killing of two people.
    What a reader comes away believing
    That something was removed or cancelled, not that Israeli forces shot two men dead.
    What is actually the case
    Two human beings were killed. The outlet's own earlier report and other coverage of Israeli strikes use the word "killed" plainly; this article never once says anyone was shot or died.

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    “IDF eliminates threats”

    What the words do
    The sub-headline turns two killed men into "threats" that were "eliminated".
    What a reader comes away believing
    That an abstract danger was neutralised, with no person at the end of it.
    What is actually the case
    The people killed are written out of the sentence altogether and replaced by the word "threats", which is the army's own description.

    How we know

    • Elsewhere in the article“Following the identification, the troops eliminated the terrorists.”

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    “the troops eliminated the terrorists”

    What the words do
    The one sentence in the article that reports the deaths uses "eliminated" in the outlet's own voice, with no attribution.
    What a reader comes away believing
    That a clean procedural act took place, not a killing of two unnamed men.
    What is actually the case
    The article never states that anyone was killed or died, gives no names, no ages and no account from anyone other than the army.

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  2. Labels people on one side's word

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    “two terrorists who crossed the Yellow Line”

    What the words do
    The outlet calls the two men killed "terrorists" in its own voice, in the same breath as an unverified claim about their movement.
    What a reader comes away believing
    That it is established the two dead men were terrorists.
    What is actually the case
    The only basis given is the army's own statement, credited in the dateline to the "IDF spokesperson". The article offers no name, no affiliation and no evidence, and never says the claim is unverified.

    How we know

    • Elsewhere in the article“Following the identification, the troops eliminated the terrorists”

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  3. States one side's claim as fact

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    “IDF troops identified two terrorists who crossed the Yellow Line in the northern and southern Gaza Strip”

    What the words do
    States the army's account of what happened as plain fact in the outlet's voice, with the only attribution buried in a dateline string.
    What a reader comes away believing
    That it is settled that the two men crossed the line and that this is why they were shot.
    What is actually the case
    The claim comes from the Israeli military alone. No Palestinian source, no medical source and no independent verification appears anywhere in the article.

    How we know

    • Elsewhere in the article“will continue to operate to remove any immediate threat”

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  4. Gives a contested claim the last word

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    “troops under the Southern Command remain deployed in the area in accordance with the agreement and will continue to operate to remove any immediate threat”

    What the words do
    Closes the report with the Israeli army's own justification for its deployment and for further killings.
    What a reader comes away believing
    That the shootings were lawful ceasefire enforcement and that the army is the party keeping to the agreement.
    What is actually the case
    Nothing in the article sets anything against this claim. No Palestinian response, no ceasefire monitor and no mention that Israeli forces have continued to kill Palestinians in Gaza throughout the ceasefire, as this outlet has itself reported.

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    Written straight

    The army said its troops remain deployed under the ceasefire agreement and will keep acting against what it calls immediate threats. Israeli forces have continued to carry out strikes and killings in Gaza since the ceasefire took effect.

  5. Leaves out what changes the picture

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    What is missing

    The article never says that Israeli forces have gone on killing Palestinians in Gaza throughout the ceasefire, something this outlet itself has reported repeatedly in the past week. Without it a reader believes these two shootings are isolated enforcement of an otherwise held ceasefire.

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