The New York Times · 16 February 1989

CP-1989-019

Israelis Study Devices In Blasts in West Bank

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“The army had determined that one of the children, a 15-year-old boy from the village of Qabatiya, died after picking up an unexploded shell in a closed military area.”

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The passive voice is the story. Devices are studied, children are killed and wounded, and the sentence never arrives at a hand that placed anything. Three branches of the Israeli security services investigate what the headline calls mysterious.

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"Israelis Study Devices In Blasts in West Bank," The New York Times, 16 February 1989. Covering Palestine archive, CP-1989-019. https://coveringpalestine.org/archive/cp-1989-019

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