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Has the war in Gaza weakened Israel?

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After the Hamas terror attack in October 7, 2023, Israel launched a massive military offensive in Gaza.

according to Gaza's Health Ministry — numbers the UN agrees are accurate.

In the last three years, Israel has also expanded its military operations across the Middle East, fighting on several fronts.

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What we found (1)

DW's short video page reports Israel's offensive on Gaza and its regional reach. In the key casualty sentence it makes "the war" the subject that killed more than 74,200 people and left the Strip in ruins, which takes Israel out of the sentence that counts the dead. The page does attribute the toll fairly and notes that the UN accepts the figures.

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    “The war has left most of the Strip in ruins and killed more than 74,200 people”

    Why this matters
    DW makes "the war" the subject of "left most of the Strip in ruins" and "killed more than 74,200 people". No party destroys or kills in this sentence.
    The impression it gives
    A reader takes the destruction and the deaths as the product of a war in general, as if no one in particular carried them out.
    The context
    The page itself says in the sentence before that Israel launched the offensive. Other coverage of the same anniversary states plainly that Israeli attacks killed more than 74,000 Palestinians. The actor is Israeli occupation forces, and the dead are Palestinians.

    How we know

    Show it in the article

    Written straight

    Israel's offensive has left most of the Strip in ruins and killed more than 74,200 Palestinians, according to Gaza's Health Ministry, figures the UN agrees are accurate.

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