The IDF and Shin Bet said they killed Farah Hamed in Gaza. [1] The Times of Israel filed the confirmation, tying him to Second Intifada shootings and a later Gaza role after a prisoner release. [1] A confirmation is not a second war. Print the agencies' sentence. Do not print a closed front.

Wednesday this paper carried a Hamas claim on a factory stub. Thursday the Israeli agencies named the same man. A named killing is not a cease-fire and not a tunnel demolition. Keep this off Ali al-Taher.

Confirmed remains the agencies' Thursday stamp, not a Hamas communique and not a second front.
Print confirmed as the agencies' word. Leave a named next raid to the edition that owns a named next raid.

-- CHARLES ASHFORD, London