Four Hamas terrorists involved in advancing attacks in separate strikes in the northern Gaza Strip have been eliminated, the IDF announced Monday morning. In two separate strikes in the northern Gaza Strip on Saturday, the IDF eliminated two terrorists from Hamas' military wing: Nabil Hamad, head of a department within the Hamas’ recruitment apparatus, who was directly involved in strengthening and rebuilding Hamas' military wing in the Gaza Strip; and Mohannad Nader Mahmoud Dahdouh, a sniper commander who actively participated in combat and carried out terror attacks against IDF troops.
Additionally, in two strikes in the northern Gaza Strip on October 22nd, the IDF eliminated two additional terrorists from Hamas' military wing. One of them, Wael Naif Fahmi Muslim, was a Nukhba terrorist who infiltrated Israeli territory during the October 7th Massacre. The second, Arafat Kamal Muhammad Ar'air, served as a squad commander in the terror group's rocket array. The IDF noted that throughout the war, and especially recently, all four terrorists advanced attacks against IDF troops and Israeli civilians and operated to restore the capabilities of the Hamas terrorist organization.
Such activities are a systematic violation of the ceasefire. "The terrorists were eliminated in aerial strikes to remove the threat they posed," the IDF added. "Prior to the strikes, measures were taken to mitigate harm to civilians, including the use of precision munitions and aerial surveillance." "IDF troops under the Southern Command remain deployed in the area in accordance with the agreement and will continue to operate to remove any threat."
Arutz Sheva turns an Israeli military announcement into its own account. It writes four killings as eliminations, never once saying anyone was killed, and calls the dead terrorists in its own voice on the IOF's word alone. It also states the army's charge of a ceasefire violation and its accounts of the men's pasts as established fact, and gives no voice but the army's.
Writes the death out
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“eliminates”
Why this matters
The headline uses "eliminates" for four killings in Israeli air strikes.
The impression it gives
A reader takes in a clean military result, a removal, and not the deaths of four people from bombs.
The context
Four men were killed in air strikes. Other coverage of the same announcement says so plainly. The article never uses the word killed anywhere.
Israeli air strikes killed four Palestinian men in northern Gaza on Saturday and on 22 October, the Israeli military said Monday, claiming they were members of Hamas' military wing.
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“Hamas terrorists”
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The headline calls the four dead "Hamas terrorists" in the outlet's own voice.
The impression it gives
A reader takes it as established fact that all four were terrorists.
The context
The only basis the article gives is an IOF announcement. No independent source, family or Palestinian account appears anywhere.
How we know
Elsewhere in the article“the IDF announced Monday morning”