Hours before Tuesday's Egypt-Argentina World Cup match, an Israeli strike hit a car in Gaza City. It killed Mohamed al-Wahidi, the Egyptian aid official who had spent the tournament organizing public screenings so people in Gaza could watch it, along with two brothers, 10 and 8 years old, and the driver. * The Mirror's headline: "Egyptian official organizing World Cup watch party in Gaza killed in 'targeted strike.'" No hedge. A targeted strike, on him. * AP's wire report — the source most of this story's details trace back to — includes something that headline leaves out: the Israeli military said al-Wahidi was not the target. It said it was aiming for a Hamas militant, and was still checking whether the driver was who it meant to hit. * That's not us clearing anyone. Near-daily Israeli strikes have kept killing Palestinian civilians since October's truce, AP's own reporting notes, and a military spokesperson's account isn't automatically the truth just because it's official. But a headline that states "targeted strike" as settled fact, on a story where the actual target is explicitly disputed by the party that fired, is claiming more certainty than the reporting underneath it can support. * We couldn't find CNN, Fox, or the BBC giving this its own headline today — the same day those outlets ran wall-to-wall coverage of the very match al-Wahidi died helping Gaza watch. * Whatever the intended target was, four people are dead, two of them children, hours before a soccer match. That much isn't in dispute by anyone.