Dozens of mourners gathered in northern Gaza on Saturday evening for a vigil honoring 70 people who were killed during the war. The deceased belonged to more than a dozen families who had been waiting for the remains of their loved ones. The remains were recovered in the past few weeks from the rubble of buildings destroyed by Israeli strikes during the war. They were wrapped in white body bags and draped with Palestinian flags. Candles were placed gently on their chests and families gathered to say their final goodbyes.
Palestinian authorities estimate that more than 10,000 people are still buried under the rubble in Gaza, according to the UN. Mass funerals have become more common in Gaza, where Israel has not allowed the use of heavy machinery to clear the rubble of destroyed buildings to recover the dead. Palestinian Civil Defense workers are still trying to unearth hundreds of bodies from buildings, but they have just a few working excavators, and their fuel supply is dwindling. (Source: AP)
Press TV reports a vigil in northern Gaza for 70 people whose remains were pulled from the rubble of buildings destroyed by Israeli strikes. Its headline and opening sentence say only that they were "killed during war", with no actor, though the article itself names Israeli strikes two sentences later. The body attributes the 10,000 figure for people still buried, and it names Israel's refusal to allow heavy machinery to recover the dead.
Hides who did it
Serious
“70 people killed during war”
Why this matters
The headline says the 70 were "killed during war". It names no one who killed them and blames a period of time, the war, rather than an actor.
The impression it gives
A reader who sees only the headline learns that 70 people died somewhere in a war, with nothing to say who killed them or how.
The context
The article's own body says the remains were recovered from buildings destroyed by Israeli strikes. The headline drops the one actor the article names.
How we know
Elsewhere in the article“the rubble of buildings destroyed by Israeli strikes during the war”