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Israeli army kills 2 Palestinians in occupied West Bank shooting

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Two Palestinians were fatally shot by the Israeli army on Friday morning, Israeli newspaper Haaretz reported. The Palestinians were killed in a shootout with Israeli forces following allegations that they had opened fire at Israeli occupiers in the West Bank city of Hebron, wounding five people. Israel's emergency medical service Magen David Adom stated that among those wounded, two are in critical condition. Video footage circulated on social media captured the moments when Israeli soldiers shot at the Palestinians.

Left out here: Leaves out what changes the picture

The article says the two Palestinians were alleged to have fired at "Israeli occupiers". Elsewhere in the article Anadolu uses that word for the settler population. It never says that, by other outlets' accounts of the same event, the people fired on were Israeli soldiers at a military checkpoint near Hebron. A reader could take the wounded to be settlers rather than troops.

How we know

The Israeli army has cordoned off Palestinian villages near Hebron, Haaretz reported. The report comes as attacks by Israeli occupiers and the army against Palestinians and their land in the occupied West Bank have intensified during the olive harvest season that began earlier this month. Palestinian figures indicate that around 750,000 Israeli occupiers live in the West Bank, including occupied East Jerusalem, across 194 settlements and approximately 400 outposts.

Israeli settlements built on occupied Palestinian land are considered illegal under international law.

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What we found (1)

Anadolu reports that the Israeli army shot dead two Palestinians near Hebron after they were alleged to have opened fire, and names the army as the killer in the headline and the first sentence. It attributes the shooting allegation rather than stating it as fact and places the event inside the olive harvest attacks and the illegal settlement enterprise. Its one gap is minor: it calls the people fired on "Israeli occupiers", the word it uses for settlers, and never says that other outlets reported they were soldiers at a military checkpoint.

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    What is missing

    The article says the two Palestinians were alleged to have fired at "Israeli occupiers". Elsewhere in the article Anadolu uses that word for the settler population. It never says that, by other outlets' accounts of the same event, the people fired on were Israeli soldiers at a military checkpoint near Hebron. A reader could take the wounded to be settlers rather than troops.

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What it gets right

  • “Israeli army kills 2 Palestinians”

    The headline names who did the killing and uses the word for it, rather than writing the deaths as an incident or a shootout with no actor.

  • “following allegations that they had opened fire”

    The outlet attributes the claim that the two men fired first. It does not state the army's account as established fact.

  • “attacks by Israeli occupiers and the army against Palestinians and their land”

    It names both the settlers and the army as the attackers in the olive harvest violence, rather than folding it into tensions or clashes.

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