If it was a one-off you would be right. But newspapers consistently leave out negatively loaded words for israel while (correctly) using them for Russia.

Leaked NYT Gaza Memo Tells Journalists to Avoid Words “Genocide,” “Ethnic Cleansing,” and “Occupied Territory”

It’s even more preposterous because israel doesn’t control the West Bank. They are illegally colonizing it and preventing Aljazeera from covering their war-crimes. If this isn’t blatant repression of press freedom I don’t know what is.