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Friday, October 23, 2026

Photos show Palestinian gunmen during firefight with IDF troops amid West Bank shooting attack

Photos published by the AFP news agency appear to show the gunmen who carried out a shooting attack in the southern West Bank.

Five people were injured, two of them critically, when two gunmen opened fire at a checkpoint near Hebron.

The two shooters were killed by troops amid a gun battle that lasted over 20 minutes.

The pictures appear to show the gunmen amid the firefight.

AFP says their Hebron-based photographer was en route to another assignment when he witnessed the gun battle break out at the checkpoint.

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The Times of Israel liveblog entry reports that AFP photos appear to show the two Palestinian gunmen who opened fire at a checkpoint near Hebron, wounding five people, before troops killed them. It names who killed whom, credits the photos to AFP and hedges what the pictures show. Nothing in it misleads the reader about the event it reports.

What it gets right

“The two shooters were killed by troops”
The outlet names who did the killing instead of writing that the two men died or were killed in an exchange of fire.
“appear to show the gunmen who carried out a shooting attack”
The outlet hedges what the photos show rather than overstating them, in line with the AFP caption reported elsewhere.
“AFP says their Hebron-based photographer was en route to another assignment”
The outlet attributes the account of how the photos were taken to AFP rather than stating it in its own voice.

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