The IDF on Wednesday announced the elimination of several terrorists from Hamad' military wing in recent Gaza strikes. On Sunday, the terrorist Anas Akram Muhammad Humaida, a Nukhba commander who inflatrated the Sufa outpost during the October 7th Massacre, was eliminated in the Khan Yunis area. Also on Sunday, the terrorist Ashraf Mahmoud Yusuf Dahlan, a company commander in the East Jabalia Battalion who infiltrated Israeli territory during the October 7th Massacre, was eliminated in Gaza City.
On Monday, the terrorist Mahmoud Othman Abdullah Alwan, a Nukhba commander in the West Jabalia Battalion, was eliminated in Gaza City. "Throughout the war, and particularly in recent days, these terrorists advanced attacks against IDF troops and Israeli civilians and operated to restore the Hamas terrorist organization’s capabilities, in systematic violation of the ceasefire," the IDF noted, adding that these terrorists "were eliminated in aerial strikes to remove the threat they posed."
"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 IOF announcement of airstrikes into its own account. In its own voice it calls three named Palestinians killed in the strikes terrorists, writes their killings as eliminations and never uses the word killed. It states the army's claims about two of the men's 7 October roles as fact, and its headline drops the attribution the body gives.
Writes the death out
Severe
“eliminates”
Why this matters
The headline uses "eliminates" for airstrikes that killed people.
The impression it gives
The reader meets the event as the removal of a target, not as people killed by bombs.
The context
Other outlets reporting the same announcement say plainly that the strikes killed these men. The article never uses the word killed.
The army said the men were Hamas commanders. Two of them, it said, had taken part in the 7 October attack. None of these claims has been independently verified.
States one side's claim as fact
Serious
“who inflatrated the Sufa outpost during the October 7th Massacre”
Why this matters
The outlet states Humaida's part in the 7 October attack in its own voice, with no attribution.
The impression it gives
The reader takes his participation in 7 October as established fact.
The context
The claim comes from the army's announcement. Times of Israel reports it as the military's identification.
The army said Humaida had entered the Sufa post and Dahlan had entered Israel on 7 October.
Headline goes beyond the article
Serious
“IDF eliminates October 7th terrorists”
Why this matters
The headline drops the attribution the body gives and calls all those killed "October 7th terrorists".
The impression it gives
The reader believes every man killed is an established 7 October attacker.
The context
The body presents the claims as an army announcement. It links only two of the three named men to 7 October, and says nothing of that kind about Alwan.
How we know
Elsewhere in the article“The IDF on Wednesday announced”
Elsewhere in the article“a Nukhba commander in the West Jabalia Battalion, was eliminated in Gaza City”