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The title of the article;

Young Palestinian creator who shared glimpses of daily life during war dies

Within the news article;

Medo Halimy, 19, died after he was hit by shrapnel during an Israeli airstrike on Gaza’s southern city of Khan Younis on Monday, several of his friends told NBC News.

He was murdered, they should change the title to;

Young Palestinian creator who shared glimpses of daily life during war murdered by Israeli airstrike

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Even the most passive, neutral reporter in the world in any other case could/would say

“Young Palestinian creator who shared glimpses of daily life during war killed by Israeli airstrike.”

That is just 100% fact without a shadow of any doubt at all. The airstrike created the shrapnel that killed him, launched by Israel.

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dies

They are really laying it on thick with the passive voice.

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“dies”

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That just happens sometimes.

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Dammit fuck, was he on chemo and didn’t tell no one? Oh man… or please don’t tell me OD’d?
He just died while vlogging about surviving being trapped under daily genocidal indiscrimenant bombing for almost an entire year.

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Halimy was an alumnus of the State Department’s Kennedy-Lugar Youth Exchange and Study (YES) program, which gives high school students from countries with “significant Muslim populations” the opportunity to live and study in the United States for an academic year.

He attended Harker Heights High School in the Texan city of the same name as part of the program in 2021 and 2022.

“Medo was creating vlogs of his daily life as a refugee in Almawasi, where he showed people how it is to live in a tent and how surviving a genocide isn’t an easy feat but he was doing it either way,” it said. “It wasn’t an easy feat at all.”

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“teenage hamas adjacent terrorist runs into shrapnel; dies by his own actions” /s

edit: good points in the replies-- should have added /s because people say this unironically

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See I think the problem is that I can’t tell if you’re making fun of the obvious bias of newspaper headlines and articles, or the teenager who just died… Because it’s the kind of thing the IDF would unironically say.

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A great alternative to “unironically,” is “seriously.” I say this unironically, and not in the Morissette way.

/s

🙃

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i would have thought the quotes would indicate the intent of the tone of the actual headline-- guess not

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If it is indeed sarcasm or anything like that, I suggest use “/s” which stands for sarcasm. People will understand the tone that way.

Sometimes its hard to figure out whether someone means their comment as sarcasm, seriously and such.

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At risk of misreading, I think they might be parodying the usual IDF line. The ‘runs into shrapnel’ bit is a little over the top.

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