Talk:Killing of Ismail al-Ghoul

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On 19 August 2024, it was proposed that this article be moved from Ismail al-Ghoul to Killing of Ismail al-Ghoul. The result of the discussion was moved.

Edit request - update with IDF response

please can someone add the IDF position on the attack which killed alghoul here, including the claim that he was a Hamas militant. https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/idf-confirms-gaza-strike-that-killed-al-jazeera-reporter-says-he-participated-in-october-7-massacre/ MosheDov1 (talk) 19:36, 1 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Assassination of al-Ghoul and al-Refee

After the IDF declared carrying out a strike in Gaza Strip that was deliberate assassinated Al Jazeera reporter Ismail al-Ghoul and cameraman al-Refee, saying [al-Ghoul] was a member of Hamas’s elite Nukhba force who participated in the October 7 according Time of Israel and Reuters

@Shushugah help me to publish seprate article or redirect. QalasQalas (talk) 22:21, 1 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Last Name

I'm seeing usage of "al-Ghoul", "Al-Ghoul", and "Al Ghoul". Could someone more familiar with the subject please advise on which spelling to use for consistency? Upjav (talk) 16:23, 5 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

With the “the” prefix in Arabic names I usually see “al-“ with the a in lowercase The Great Mule of Eupatoria (talk) 14:44, 6 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

WP:RS do not support "assassination" description/characterization in Wikivoice—"killing" more accurately reflects WP:RS

No WP:RS of which I'm aware describes this as an "assassination"—"killing" would be better, and it's possible an argument could be made for "targeted killing". Even the Al Jazeera article cited in our article was careful to use the term (in that case "targeted assassination") only in quotation marks—when quoting a statement from none other than… the Al Jazeera Media Network. Yet "assassination" is used throughout, in Wikivoice—and should be edited to more accurately reflect the descriptions of WP:RS.

Thanks! Ekpyros (talk) 17:20, 25 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Also noticed that strange wording. It is both unnatural in this context and also unneccessarily loaded. Iceblade02 (talk) 00:39, 9 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

In this case “assassination” definitely is the right term. He was killed in an attack that the IDF acknowledged was he was the target of The Great Mule of Eupatoria (talk) 07:03, 21 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]