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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    Hamas were elected in January 2006 and have refused new elections since.

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      The average person in Gaza was somewhere between “way too young to vote” and “didn’t exist yet” the last time an election was held