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    4 days ago

    A sniper believed to be part of the Palestinian Authority (PA) forces shot and killed her friend, 22-year-old journalism student Shatha al-Sabbagh, a few days ago.

    This is the only information we have about the shooting from this article.

    • we don’t know who the sniper was
    • we don’t know why the sniper fired
    • we don’t know who else were present in the area, or whether the sniper fired on more people

    Without more information and context, there seems to be a considerable chance that the sniper, whoever he was, did not shoot al-Sabbagh because of being a journalist, but for some other reason (for example, mistaken identification). The outcome is equally bad for the person who died, but the situational picture that one can build from the information looks rather different.