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Palestinian Terrorist Killed In Israeli Airstrike. AFP Calls Him Simply ‘Palestinian.’

Ashe Schow
Palestinian Terrorist Killed In Israeli Airstrike. AFP Calls Him Simply ‘Palestinian.’
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A Palestinian terrorist leader was killed in an Israeli airstrike Tuesday morning, yet the Agence France-Presse referred to him simply as a “Palestinian.”

In a tweet thread announcing  the death of Baha Abu al-Ata, a senior leader of the militant group Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ), the AFP first reported, simply, “Breaking: Palestinian killed in new Israel strike in Gaza: Hamas ministry.”

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