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THE NEW YORK TIMES instructed journalists covering Israels war on the Gaza Strip to restrict the use of the terms genocide and ethnic cleansing and to avoid using the phrase occupied territory when describing Palestinian land, according to a copy of an internal memo obtained by The Intercept.
The memo also instructs reporters not to use the word Palestine except in very rare cases and to steer clear of the term refugee camps to describe areas of Gaza historically settled by displaced Palestinians expelled from other parts of Palestine during previous IsraeliArab wars. The areas are recognized by the United Nations as refugee camps and house hundreds of thousands of registered refugees.