"Israel: No Damage in Strike From Gaza"
A12 (World Briefing), Saturday 11/8/08
By Reuters
The article briefly details Islamic Jihad's rocket and mortar attacks against Israel on Friday. Militant Palestinian groups, including Hamas, continue to fire rockets on Israel in retaliation for the IDF's counter-terrorist operation this past Tuesday in Gaza, which destroyed a Hamas-operated tunnel intended to be used to kidnap Israeli soldiers.
No specific mention of this is made in the article, which blandly reports that "Israel carried out an airstrike Tuesday in Gaza after its troops clashed with Hamas gunmen along the border in the first armed confrontation since a cease-fire took effect in June." Relevant context is omitted.
It is interesting to note that the title of the article highlights the lack of damage from the rockets, rather than the rocketfire itself.
** This is the second Reuters news brief in three days omitting mention of the Hamas tunnel built to kidnap more Israeli soldiers. It was this tunnel which prompted Israel to act.
This piece cites Islamic Jihad as saying their rockets were in response to "Israeli operations". Likewise, in Thursday’s similarly flawed brief, Hamas rockets came "after Israeli forces killed at least five Palestinian militants in an eruption of violence." It was the same day as Israel’s operation to destroy the tunnel that the five militants were killed, as reported by the Times. Times readers now lament an "eruption of violence," and not Hamas' exploitation of the quiet of the ceasefire to make preparations to abduct Israeli soldiers, which sparked the eruption.
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Well done pointing out the title, essentially excusing the rockets because they caused "no damage".
ReplyDeleteIt's upsetting that Reuters couldn't manage to squeeze in a line about that tunnel, lest readers think Israel is looking to provoke.