Top Hamas commander who oversaw October 7 massacre killed in Israeli air strike
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The Mirror reports the Israeli strike that killed Hamas Rafah Brigade commander Samir Abu Younis, naming Israel as the attacker and attributing his role to both Hamas and the Israeli military. In its background passage it names Hamas as the actor behind the 1,200 deaths of 7 October, then gives the Gaza toll of more than 74,650 with no one doing the killing.
Hides who did it
Serious
“more than 74,650 people have been killed in the Gaza Strip”
Why this matters
The words "have been killed in the Gaza Strip" give the Gaza death toll in the passive, with no actor, straight after a sentence that names Hamas as the actor of the 7 October killings.
The impression it gives
A reader learns who killed the 1,200 people in Israel, but is left with tens of thousands of deaths in Gaza that simply happened, with no one responsible.
The context
The deaths in Gaza were caused by Israeli occupation forces. The documented record shows the health ministry recorded the Israeli occupation as having killed them. The article names the actor for one side's dead and drops it for the other's, in consecutive sentences.
How we know
On the recordGaza's Ministry of Health recorded the Israeli occupation as having killed 74,392 Palestinians, a cumulative toll that NewsCord's reading of BBC coverage cites as of October 2026.newscord.org (opens in a new tab)
Elsewhere in the article“The attack by Hamas in southern Israel”
Elsewhere in the article“Israeli strikes have continued”
Written straight
Since then, Israeli forces have killed more than 74,650 people in the Gaza Strip, the health ministry says.