Lebanon's Hezbollah announced on Tuesday a financial aid plan for families whose primary homes were destroyed or rendered uninhabitable during the war with Israel, days after reports that the group had received $200 million from Iran to support displaced Lebanese families.
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Haaretz runs a one-sentence Reuters item on Hezbollah's aid plan for families whose homes were lost. It says the homes were destroyed or made uninhabitable during the war with Israel and never says who destroyed them. The reader is not told that Israeli strikes destroyed homes in Lebanon.
Hides who did it
Serious
“whose primary homes were destroyed or rendered uninhabitable during the war with Israel”
Why this matters
The words "were destroyed or rendered uninhabitable during the war" use the passive and a time phrase. Nobody destroys the homes. The war is only the period in which it happened.
The impression it gives
A reader comes away thinking the homes were lost in a general war, with no actor responsible for the destruction.
The context
Israeli strikes destroyed more than 40,000 homes in Lebanon and displaced more than 1 million people. Other coverage of the same announcement reports that Israel launched a ground invasion and captured dozens of Lebanese villages and towns along the border. The article never names Israeli strikes or the invasion as the cause.
How we know
On the recordIsraeli strikes have destroyed more than 40,000 homes in Lebanon and displaced more than 1 million people.newscord.org (opens in a new tab)