I’m in the US.
I haven’t discerned a pattern, by the media, in the titling of the horror currently underway.
I’ve seen Al Jazeera use both phrasings. I haven’t determined that other media sites are hardlining their terminology either, but I notice the difference as I browse.
Maybe it doesn’t mean anything, but these days people seem extra sensitive about names.
Hamas were elected in January 2006 and have refused new elections since.
The average person in Gaza was somewhere between “way too young to vote” and “didn’t exist yet” the last time an election was held