• phoneymouse@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    Normally you’d say she was killed by the IDF, or Israel shot and killed an American.

    Instead the media makes strong use of passive voice:

    Witnesses say Aysenur Ezgi Eygi, 26, was fired at by Israel Defense Forces soldiers positioned in a nearby field

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      4 months ago

      …was fired at…

      Gotta love a passive voice so passive that it doesn’t even clarify that she was shot and killed and not merely “fired at”.

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        IDF soldiers have been seen pulling small levers on handheld devices.

        Eygi fell to the ground with blood coming out of her head around the same time.