• BossDj@lemm.ee
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    8 months ago

    Absolutely HATE the passive voice and I do think the title is terrible and avoids blame.

    But the headline isn’t TOTALLY without merit. The provided total of dead and injured weren’t solely killed by Israeli military. Apparently many were killed or injured when the aid trucks decided to get the hell out of there and ran over a bunch of Palestinians to escape.

    Still 100% Israel’s fault, but it technically couldn’t say “killed by Israeli gunfire”.

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      8 months ago

      “Killed in Israeli attack on aid trucks” would work.

      If someone deliberately set fire to a theater and 10 people died from being trampled, you would still say they died in the arsonist’s attack, even though they didn’t die from the arsonist’s attack.

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      If the IDF starts firing into a crowd and mass killing people that will cause a panic.

      Evidence of the IDF firing into the crowd:

      NSFL (gore+death)

      I’m not sure if there are truly any deaths from crowd crushing, but if there are then all those deaths would still be the IDF’s fault.

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        8 months ago

        Yes to all this. The report of the truck behavior was from Palestinian witnesses.

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      8 months ago

      Do you have evidence to back up this claim? From what I’ve read, many of those run over were also riddled with bullet holes.

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        8 months ago

        a Palestinian witness told the BBC that most of the people killed had been run over by trucks

        From The Guardian citing AP and BBC

        The hospital said it was treating more bullet wounds than truck, though. But that’s survivors

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            8 months ago

            The problem with war reporting is different sides giving different and bias viewpoints, try not to die first and report later, and no chance of rapid probe or investigation. So who knows, maybe they were already dead. Not too mention the bias in capitalist media. Hell, maybe the stone hearted CNN editor gives no shits about people’s lives and just thought that “chaos” buzzword would grab more clicks. I don’t know.

            But when a Palestinian, who could have easily just said “IDF shot them all” to enhance their vilification, but instead says the truck killed people, my instinct is to take it as a possibility. If Israel alone claimed the trucks killed more, I’d be pure skepticism.

            Or maybe in the scary as fuck situation, the witness made assumptions. Reporters can report on what they found and whoever does the analyzing will do what they do.

  • jan teli@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    The fella in the suit looks a bit like hitler (or is that the joke? Not sure if it’s that or the “chaotic incident” wording)

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    8 months ago

    Say what you will about the Holocaust, but it wasn’t particularly chaotic. Germany figured out how to turn genocide into a well-oiled machine.

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      8 months ago

      Yes but when they invaded foreign territories their military caused chaos, just as the IDF is causing chaos when they invade Palestine.

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    8 months ago

    They’re writing like this because they don’t want to commit to any interpretation of the events yet. And for a news site, I think it’s okay. I think of it like calling a perpetrator a “suspect” until proven guilty. Though not with a stringent of requirements for “conviction”.

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      If only the IDF didn’t literally say they did it and claimed it was “self defense” and a starving crowd desperate for food…