What's the significance of calling it "Israel-Hamas War" vs "Israel-Gaza War"?

yool_ooloo@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world – 88 points –

I'm in the US.

I haven't discerned a pattern, by the media, in the titling of the horror currently underway.

I've seen Al Jazeera use both phrasings. I haven't determined that other media sites are hardlining their terminology either, but I notice the difference as I browse.

Maybe it doesn't mean anything, but these days people seem extra sensitive about names.

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Whoever thinks Israel purposefully targets civilians ignores how Hamas operates. It has been documented for years by the UN and human rights organizations that they use civilians as shields.

Getting Palestinian civilians dead is part of their strategy.

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