Footage filmed on a camera mounted on the helmet of Moshe Botbiah, the security officer for the Kiryat Arba-Hebron Local Council, captures the pursuit of the terrorists who carried out the shooting attack in the area on Friday and the exchanges of gunfire with them. Botbiah participated in the pursuit alongside the Judea Brigade Regional Defense Officer, and troops and commanders from the Home Front Command's Ari Battalion and the Paratroopers Brigade's 101st Battalion.
The attack at the Judea Junction on Friday morning wounded five Israelis, two critically. An initial investigation indicates that the terrorists arrived at the scene in a vehicle with Israeli license plates and opened fire on Israelis at the junction. IDF forces stationed at the scene eliminated the two terrorists following a brief pursuit. The terrorists, who were armed with a handgun and an M-16 rifle, had attempted to flee. Roadblocks were established throughout the area.
Left out here: Leaves out what changes the picture
The article ends with "Roadblocks were established throughout the area". It leaves out that a full lockdown was imposed on the cities of Hebron and Halhul, and that a cordon was prepared around Hebron and nearby villages. A reader believes the response was a set of checkpoints. In fact whole Palestinian cities were sealed.
Arutz Sheva reports that Israeli occupation forces killed two men after a shooting attack near Hebron, but writes only that they were "eliminated" and never says they were killed. It calls the dead men terrorists in its own voice and in its headline without attribution. It mentions roadblocks but leaves out the full lockdown of Hebron and Halhul.
Writes the death out
Severe
“eliminated the two terrorists”
Why this matters
The word "eliminated" reports that soldiers killed two people, but it is a term for removing a target rather than ending a life.
The impression it gives
Two threats were neutralised. The reader is not told plainly that two people were shot dead.
The context
Israeli occupation forces killed two men. The article never uses any word for killing or death. "Eliminated" is the wording of the IOF Spokesperson's statement, which the outlet carried earlier the same day and now repeats in its own voice.
How we know
Checked against the whole articleIt never uses the words “killed”, “dead” and “death”.
Israeli soldiers at the scene shot dead two men after a brief pursuit. The army says the two carried out the attack.
Labels people on one side's word
Minor
“Hebron terrorists”
Why this matters
The headline calls the dead men "Hebron terrorists" in the outlet's own voice, with no attribution, and ties the label to the city.
The impression it gives
It is an established fact who these men were and what they did, and they are defined by Hebron.
The context
The only source the outlet gives for who the men were is the army. Its own earlier report sources the account to the IOF Spokesperson's Unit. Nothing in the article attributes the label.
In the sentence reporting their killing, the outlet names the dead only by the label "terrorists". It gives no names and no nationality.
The impression it gives
The two people killed have been confirmed as the attackers and need no other description.
The context
The article's own account of the attack rests on "an initial investigation", which is the army's early version. The outlet drops even that hedge when it labels the men it reports were killed.
How we know
Elsewhere in the article“An initial investigation indicates that the terrorists arrived at the scene”
The article ends with "Roadblocks were established throughout the area". It leaves out that a full lockdown was imposed on the cities of Hebron and Halhul, and that a cordon was prepared around Hebron and nearby villages. A reader believes the response was a set of checkpoints. In fact whole Palestinian cities were sealed.