The IDF published new footage on Sunday showing the moment Israeli forces eliminated two terrorists during Friday's fierce exchange of fire at the Judea Junction. During the shootout, which began when the two terrorists from Hebron attacked the troops, Staff Sergeant Ron Yonatan Roytman and Sergeant Yuval Shai Svilem fell in battle, and three other soldiers were wounded. The surveillance footage shows the exchange of fire between the terrorists and the Ari Battalion's deputy commander's team.
During the battle, a soldier is seen charging at the terrorists while opening fire. Within moments, additional soldiers join him. The gunfire eliminated the two terrorists. The incident began when the terrorists arrived at the Judea Junction on Route 35 in a car and opened fire at the IDF forces operating there. An exchange of fire between the terrorists and the fighters lasted for more than 20 minutes. During the encounter, two fighters fell, and others were injured.
Additional soldiers who rushed to the scene surrounded the terrorists and eliminated them.
Arutz Sheva reports army footage of a shootout near Hebron in which two Palestinian attackers killed two Israeli soldiers and were then shot dead. Each time the outlet describes the two men's deaths, it writes "eliminated" and never uses the word killed. Other outlets reporting the same event say plainly that the two men were killed.
Writes the death out
Severe
“eliminated”
Why this matters
The headline uses "eliminated" for the shooting dead of two Palestinian men.
The impression it gives
A reader takes in from the first line that a target was removed, not that two people were shot dead.
The context
The two men were shot dead by soldiers. Other reports of the same event use the word killed.
This sentence makes "the gunfire" the subject and pairs it with "eliminated". The soldiers who fired drop out of the sentence, and so does the killing itself.
The impression it gives
The deaths happened as an impersonal result of gunfire, not as soldiers shooting two men dead.
The context
S4 and S5 show soldiers charging and opening fire. Soldiers shot the two men dead.
How we know
Elsewhere in the article“a soldier is seen charging at the terrorists while opening fire”
Footage released by the Israeli army shows soldiers shooting dead two Palestinian gunmen from Hebron, who had opened fire on troops at the Judea Junction and killed two soldiers.