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Outrage after Sky News describes Israeli soldiers as 'teenage victims'

Sky News has provoked outrage online after publishing a headline on Monday saying "Israel names teenage soldiers killed in Hezbollah attack - as '23 die' in Gaza school strike". 

The headline refers to the soldiers as teenagers and says they were killed by Hezbollah.

By contrast, it puts Palestinian deaths in quotation marks and does not clarify that the school strike was carried out by the Israeli military.

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 Israeli soldiers resting near what they said is an abandoned Hezbollah position (AFP)