The New York Times headline:
“A missile at a Gaza beach café finds patrons preparing to watch the World Cup.”
This is not a neutral headline. It relies on a series of linguistic choices that shape how readers perceive the event.
• The actor disappears: The headline never says Israel fired the missile. It simply mentions “a missile,” removing the human agent responsible for the strike.
• The missile becomes the subject: The headline says the missile “finds” people, as though the missile itself acted, rather than the people who launched it.
• Killing is replaced by a scene: Instead of saying civilians were killed, the focus shifts to the fact that they were preparing to watch the World Cup.
• No mention of death: The words “killed,” “civilian,” or “victim” never appear, even though they are the central facts of the story.
• A crime becomes a narrative: The event is framed as an ironic human-interest story rather than a direct report that a military strike killed civilians.
These are not merely stylistic choices. They are linguistic decisions that influence how readers assign responsibility and understand the nature of what happened. @nytimes
URGENT! For any country where (from Italy to Thailand or Brazil) possible war criminals go on holiday and R&R. 🇮🇱 soldiers must be investigated, evidence assessed, and responsibility determined through DUE PROCESS.
This is not incitement to commit violence. It is accountability.
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🚨 BREAKING: Israel has killed baby Siwar Abu Daraz, not yet one year old, and her mother, Diana, after bombing their displacement tent in Al-Mawasi, Khan Younis southern Gaza Strip.
Siwar was murdered in her mother’s arms during what is being called a “ceasefire.”
In 2025, Israel killed 54 Palestinian children and teens in the West Bank. in B’Tselem’s latest report, we bring you the story of each and every one.
Since 7 October 2023, Israel has killed 1,086 Palestinians in the West Bank; 241 of them were children or teens, including Sam Abu Haikal, a seven-month-old baby .
The violence did not stop with the act of injuring or killing. In many cases, the forces held up medical teams trying to access the child, without offering first aid themselves. Israel is still holding 18 of the bodies, a practice it frequently employs, which amplifies the families’ suffering.
Under the Israeli regime, no Palestinian is safe, while any Israeli who harms them enjoys close to full impunity.
Read our latest report, which presents the stories of all 54 children and teens killed last year>> https://t.co/sjFNY5Xd7y
A large number of children were killed in an Israeli airstrike that targeted a group of civilians in Deir Al Balah, central Gaza. The very least you can do it look at their faces.
10th of July, 2025.
Estas no son imágenes de Hiroshima del siglo pasado, es el sur del Líbano, donde el ejército genocida de "Israel" está haciendo desaparecer pueblos enteros, llenándolos de explosivos y volándolos por los aires.
No hay escándalo mediático en la prensa, "Israel" puede destruir pueblos enteros y ni siquiera lo hacen noticia.
@Villgecrazylady@missmayim Here is Mayim Bialik promoting a Zionist Children's book that explains to the Children in Israel why they must bomb and kill the children in Gaza.
https://t.co/83dbIYMeZD
🚨 Australian female doctors making a statement in Gaza:
We are filming this because we could die at any moment.
80% of our patients are children and pregnant women.
I delivered a baby from a 9-month-pregnant woman who had been decapitated.
Please stop this terror and horror.
Meet Liav Goldstein, the man who oversees starvation and torture in Israeli concentration camps, according to a recent Haaretz exposé.
Make him famous.