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IDF: Six Hamas terrorists killed in Gaza strikes, including two involved in October 7 massacre

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it killed six Hamas terrorists in separate airstrikes across the Gaza Strip on Saturday and October 22, including two Nukhba members who participated in the October 7, 2023, massacre. , including Muhammad Kamel Musleh Qudeih, whom the IDF identified as a participant in the attack on Kibbutz Nir Oz. Qudeih, killed in the Khan Younis area, was also responsible for maintaining the operational readiness of Nukhba terrorists, according to the military.

A separate strike in Nuseirat killed Diaa Abd al-Muhsin Muhammad Abu al-Rous, a Nukhba terrorist in Hamas’s military wing, the IDF said. In northern Gaza, two additional strikes on Saturday . The military said Hamad was directly involved in strengthening and rebuilding Hamas’s military wing, while Dahdouh had participated in combat and carried out attacks against Israeli troops.

The IDF also disclosed that two strikes in northern Gaza on October 22 killed Wael Naif Fahmi Muslim, a Nukhba terrorist who infiltrated Israel during the October 7 massacre, and Arafat Kamal Muhammad Ar’air, a squad commander in Hamas’s rocket array. According to the military, the six terrorists had advanced attacks against Israeli troops and civilians and worked to restore Hamas’s capabilities during the war, particularly recently. The IDF described their activities as systematic violations of the ceasefire and said the airstrikes were carried out to remove the threats they posed.

In its statement on , the military said it took measures before the strikes to reduce harm to civilians, including using precision munitions and aerial surveillance. Police arrest 21 in suspected multimillion-shekel fraud tied to Gaza operations Israeli troops under the Southern Command remain deployed in accordance with the agreement and will continue acting to remove threats, the IDF said. Suggested articles Gaza awaits Israel's elections, but many doubt any change in policy | i24NEWS Election Day opens with minute of silence at Hostage Square for the families of Oct. 7 victims | i24NEWS Not sure who to vote for?

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i24News relays an Israeli military statement on six people killed in airstrikes in Gaza. In several sentences it drops the attribution and calls the dead terrorists in its own voice, on the IOF's word alone. It states their roles as fact and quotes no source other than the military.

  1. Labels people on one side's word

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    “Four of the terrorists were killed on Saturday”

    Why this matters
    i24News calls the four people killed on Saturday "the terrorists" in its own voice, with no attribution in the sentence.
    The impression it gives
    A reader takes it as established fact, checked by the outlet, that everyone killed was a terrorist.
    The context
    The only basis for the label is the Israeli military's own statement. The article opens by attributing the claim to the military and offers no independent check, no Palestinian source and no other evidence.

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    “the four terrorists killed in northern Gaza”

    Why this matters
    i24News again uses "the four terrorists" as its own description of the dead, outside any quotation, while reporting the military's claim about avoiding civilian harm.
    The impression it gives
    A reader accepts that the people killed in northern Gaza were terrorists and not civilians, so the civilian-harm claim looks settled.
    The context
    The label rests only on the IOF statement that both i24News and Arutz Sheva reproduce. Nothing in the article independently establishes who the dead were.

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    Written straight

    The Israeli military said its airstrikes killed six people it described as Hamas members, including two it said took part in the 7 October attack. The claims were not independently verified.

  2. States one side's claim as fact

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    “killed Nabil Hamad, a department head in Hamas’s recruitment apparatus, and Mohannad Nader Mahmoud Dahdouh, a sniper commander”

    Why this matters
    i24News states the two men's roles as fact, with no "the military said" in the sentence.
    The impression it gives
    A reader takes it as confirmed that Hamad ran a Hamas recruitment department and Dahdouh was a sniper commander.
    The context
    These descriptions come from the IOF's announcement, as the next sentence and Arutz Sheva's report of the same statement show. i24News gives no independent source for them.

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  3. One side gets the space

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    “The Israeli military said”

    Why this matters
    i24News builds the whole report on the Israeli military's statement. Every claim about the dead, the ceasefire and civilian harm comes from that one source.
    The impression it gives
    A reader gets only the IOF's account of who was killed and why, and it reads as the full story.
    The context
    No Palestinian voice appears: no family, no local official, no health authority, and no check on whether anyone else was harmed in the strikes.

    How we know

    • Checked against the whole articleIt never uses the words “Palestinian”.

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