The IDF eliminated two terrorists involved in transferring millions of shekels to Hamas' military wing and destroyed a weapons storage facility in the Gaza Strip, the IDF and Israel Security Agency (ISA, Shin Bet) announced. Last Wednesday, the IDF struck in the Gaza City area, killing Alaa Ibrahim Nimer Arshi, a commander of a terrorist cell in Hamas' military wing. In a separate strike on Tuesday in the Nuseirat area, the IDF eliminated Karam Riyad Hassan Abu Butaihan, a terrorist affiliated with Palestinian Islamic Jihad who was involved in transferring funds to Hamas' military wing.
According to the joint announcement, both terrorists had been involved throughout the war in facilitating the transfer of millions of shekels from the Iranian regime and Turkey to Hamas' military wing. The funds were recently used to support Hamas' efforts to rebuild its military capabilities and plan terrorist attacks against IDF troops and Israeli civilians, in what the security agencies described as a systematic violation of the ceasefire.
The strikes were carried out to eliminate the threat posed by the two terrorists. Additionally, on Thursday, the IDF and ISA struck and destroyed a weapons storage facility in the central Gaza Strip in an aerial attack. The facility was used by Hamas' military wing to store various weapons, including Kalashnikov rifles, a launcher and rockets. The security forces said they would continue operating to disrupt terrorist organizations' ability to finance and rebuild their forces in Gaza, degrade their military capabilities and thwart attempts to rearm or obtain weapons intended to harm IDF troops.
The announcement said precautions were taken to minimize civilian casualties ahead of the strikes. These included advance warnings to residents before the attack on the weapons storage facility, the use of precision munitions and aerial surveillance. Forces under the IDF's Southern Command remain deployed in the area in accordance with the agreement and will continue operating to eliminate threats, the statement said.
Arutz Sheva writes the killing of two Palestinian men as 'eliminations' in its headline and elsewhere, and calls both men terrorists in its own voice when its only source is the Israeli army and Shin Bet. It states the army's account of what the money paid for, and why the men were killed, as plain fact, and its headline drops the attribution the body gives. Every account in the piece comes from the military announcement, and no Palestinian voice appears.
Writes the death out
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“eliminates”
Why this matters
The headline uses 'eliminates' for an airstrike that killed two men.
The impression it gives
A reader scanning the headline takes in a removal or a neutralisation, not two people killed by Israeli airstrikes.
The context
The outlet's own body says the strike was 'killing' one of the men. Other outlets reporting the same announcement used the word killed in their headlines.
How we know
Elsewhere in the article“killing Alaa Ibrahim Nimer Arshi”
“the IDF eliminated Karam Riyad Hassan Abu Butaihan”
Why this matters
The second named man's death in Nuseirat is told only as an 'elimination'. S2 uses 'killing' for the first man, but for Abu Butaihan the word kill never appears.
The impression it gives
A reader of this sentence does not register that a strike killed Abu Butaihan.
The context
Ynet, reporting the same strike, says he was killed in the Nuseirat area.
Israeli airstrikes killed two Palestinian men in Gaza City and Nuseirat last week, the Israeli army and Shin Bet said, accusing them of moving money to Hamas.
Labels people on one side's word
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“two terrorists”
Why this matters
The headline calls the two dead men 'terrorists' with no attribution.
The impression it gives
The reader takes it as established fact that both men were terrorists.
The context
The article's only source for who the men were is the joint Israeli army and Shin Bet announcement. No independent basis is given.
How we know
Elsewhere in the article“the IDF and Israel Security Agency (ISA, Shin Bet) announced”
The Israeli army and Shin Bet said the two men killed, Alaa Ibrahim Nimer Arshi and Karam Riyad Hassan Abu Butaihan, were members of Hamas and Islamic Jihad. The article gives no independent confirmation.
States one side's claim as fact
Serious
“The funds were recently used to support Hamas' efforts to rebuild its military capabilities and plan terrorist attacks against IDF troops and Israeli civilians”
Why this matters
The outlet states the army's claim about what the money paid for in its own voice. Only the 'violation of the ceasefire' phrase is attributed.
The impression it gives
The reader takes it as fact that the money funded rearmament and attack planning.
The context
This is the military's claim. Ynet attributed it: 'According to the military, the funds were used'.
The army said the money had recently helped Hamas rebuild and plan attacks, and said the strikes were meant to remove the threat it said the men posed.
Headline goes beyond the article
Serious
“who transferred millions to Hamas”
Why this matters
The headline states as fact that the men transferred millions to Hamas.
The impression it gives
The reader takes the funding allegation as proven.
The context
The body attributes the claim to the joint army and Shin Bet announcement. The headline drops that attribution.
How we know
Elsewhere in the article“According to the joint announcement, both terrorists had been involved”