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The papers reserved outrage and apathy for Israeli casualties. Israeli victims were “slaughtered” and “massacred” by Hamas, and their deaths were “horrific.” But Palestinian victims were reported without emotion, often in the language of abstract numbers, through body counts. In addition, Palestinians were rarely “killed” and certainly never “murdered.”