Murdered vs died.

I read that Israël has murdered more civilians in Gaza since Oct 7th than have been murdered by Isis.

Aren’t most civilian casualties of war referred to as having died or being killed as opposed to being murdered? I don’t think I’ve ever seen the word murder when talking about the War on Terror innocent victims. Are the Bloody Sunday victims even referred to as murdered?

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/911-civilian-casualties-iraq-afghanistan-b1912816.html

But there is a difference. When Hamas launched an attack, they set out to deliberately target and kill Jewish civilians. No doubt about it, the loss of life in Gaza is horrible, but the nature of airstrikes is that individual civilians are not being directly targeted. There is a military objective at play.

I think it was today someone tweeted about how 60 people that drowned recently were real people and children and not just migrants. The word migrant dehumanises these people and detaches the readers/viewers from them. The tweet was in response to BBC.

I think the BBC and a lot of western media outlets deliberately use these words to lessen the impact the viewers may feel and actually normalise what's going on by removing the human emotion of empathy.

It wasn'tuntil someone on mumsnet pointed this out that I noticed it. Especially on the BBC. Different language used for different races.

I pay more attention to it now.

I've noticed also now that the BBC call Derry Londonderry now. Like they used to in The Troubles.

In some cultures women that die during child birth or those that die because of natural disasters are also martyred @Parkingt111 as you have mentioned just to give a few more examples.

@Itsalmostherenow the term martyr has different connotations in Islam and also in the culture there, than what we are used to over here. Anyone who is killed unjustly is a martyr. Like that there are also other causes of death where one would be considered a martyr for example If someone died through drowning.

I wonder why Palestinians say my child is martyred. Sounds off when they also say that of terrorists who die. I'd think it's different but they keep saying another child martyr.

I saw an interesting post on this a while back on Instagram. It was about the different language used to describe Palestinians vs Israelis on the 3 main news channels in the US. I wish I could find it now.

The BBC should at least say killed. They didn't die they were killed. Died makes it sound like they are dropping dead rather than being bombed to death and executed in the streets.