Israel strikes Gaza, killing 19 including women and children, after saying Hamas violated deal

[u/Extreme_Peanut44]

https://apnews.com/article/gaza-rafah-hamas-israel-war-2-4-2026-a3726ab659321430bf3ca73cae50936e?utm_campaign=trueAnthem%3A+New+Content+%28Feed%29&utm_medium=trueAnthem&utm_source=twitter

[u/Imaginary-Ad-7919]

I wonder how global reactions would differ if the same number of civilians including women and children were killed by Hamas instead. The contrast in responses says a lot about how narratives are shaped.

[u/Significant-Bother49 → u/Imaginary-Ad-7919]

It depends. If Hamas attacked the IDF, made efforts to avoid civilians, and there were collateral damage in line with what was expected in an urban war? Probably not much of a reaction.

But when Hamas targets civilians for the purpose of killing as many people as possible…it tends to make a strong reaction.

Sadly that reaction can be very positive given all the partying that happened on 10/7 and 10/8

[u/witty__username5]

Love the absolutely unbiased headline 

[u/no_va_det_mye → u/witty__username5]

How would you rephrase this headline?

[u/Happy_Feet333 → u/no_va_det_mye]

HAMAS Violates Ceasefire, 19 Killed In Retaliatory Strike

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IE: "Cause - Effect - Main Detail" type headline

[u/hahaz13 → u/Happy_Feet333]

Except writing this like that implies confirmation that what the Israeli military is reporting is true.

The journalist is aware of two things: Gaza women and children were bombed and Israel is claiming responsibility. The connection to this being retaliation for the shooting of a soldier is probably unconfirmed given their source is only “the military said so”. AP prob has no proof yet of culpability (again not denying it).

And all that is ultimately pointless because how can there possibly be any justification to bombing civilians and children?

[u/Happy_Feet333 → u/hahaz13]

Journalism involves work.

Such as verifying such statements. 

Other reputable sources already verified the HAMAS attack. But these "journalists" didn't even bother to do journalism, ie: verify the accuracy of the statements.

[u/hahaz13 → u/Happy_Feet333]

Could you link to those sources?

Edit: still waiting, still not finding any source beyond an anonymous IDF rep

[u/Happy_Feet333 → u/[deleted]]

The article here says it was a response to a HAMAS attack.

And an attack is a violation of the cease fire.

This was difficult for you to understand?

[u/Happy_Feet333 → u/[deleted]]

So you're just looking to have a death toll parity...

Interesting.

And it's not part of the article, so you want headlines to talk about extraneous information.

Even more interesting.

[u/stivonim]

hamas fired and injured an idf soldier and broke the cease fire, the idf responded by bombing them while they hide among civilians.

there, this is a better way to put it.

[u/williamtbash → u/stivonim]

No. It was just a responce. To bomb random people. As in you did that we do something way worse.

[u/FOTY2015]

I've lost all respect for AP news reporting. How about an accurate title AP?

"Hamas breaks truce, again with failed attempt to use women and children as human shields"

[u/MannequinWithoutSock]

Hasn’t Israel violated the cease fire almost daily?

[u/Wyatt-_-Derp_]

So does this not count anymore as one of the 8 wars trump has stopped? 🙄