British media batter Israel with some of the most biased headlines since 2014 - by Adam Levick

...One final note about the headline choices. Editors focused on the fact that the Israeli attack on military targets Saturday was the “heaviest barrage” by the IDF since the 2014 war. However, it’s quite telling that they decided not to focus on the fact that the nearly 200 rockets fired at Israel on Saturday represents the single largest volley of Gaza rockets launched on any single day since the 2014 war. So, headlines which read “Israel pummels Gaza with heaviest bombardment since 2014” could just as easily have read: “Gaza pummels Israel with heaviest bombardment since 2014”.

Adam Levick..
UK Media Watch..
15 July '18..

British media outlets published reports on the latest violence between Israel and Gaza terror groups, characteristically muddling the sequence of events by highlighting the Israeli response to Gaza terror, whilst downplaying or ignoring completely the terror itself.

Here’s what occurred.

On Friday night, an Israeli soldier was moderately wounded by shrapnel from a grenade lobbed at him from the northern Gaza Strip during violent riots by thousands of Palestinians at the border.

Early on Saturday morning, the IDF attacked sites used by Palestinians to build and distribute incendiary kites – bombs which have caused thousands of fires and destroyed over 7,400 acres of land, context regarding the current tensions between Israel and Gaza largely ignored by the media.

Israel’s air force also bombed two attack tunnels near the border.

Later Saturday morning, terrorists fired scores of rockets on Israeli communities in the south, forcing thousands to flee for bomb shelters, and included a direct hit on a home in Sderot, injuring four members of the same family.

In response, the IDF launched “its largest bombing campaign against Hamas targets…since the 2014 Gaza war” hitting dozens of military sites. More rockets were fired from Gaza late Saturday night, but a ceasefire, negotiated by Egyptian intelligence and the UN secretary-general’s envoy to the region, slowly took hold.

So, to summarize:

- The ongoing Hamas kite bomb campaign, which cause up to 20 fires in Israel a day, continued.
- Ongoing, Hamas inspired, Palestinian violence at the Gaza border continued on Friday, and included a grenade attack which injured an Israeli soldier.
- IAF launches a limited number of attacks on Hamas military positions in response to the grenade attack.
- Hamas and Islamic Jihad launched nearly 200 rockets at Israeli communities along the south, injuring three civilians.
- IAF launch over 40 attacks on Gaza military positions, including a direct hit on a Hamas battalion command in northern Gaza, which was completely destroyed – though fighters had evacuated the position and nobody was killed.

Here’s a quick run down of the headlines. Some failed to convey the accurate sequence of events, whilst others actually ignored entirely the Gaza terror attacks which precipitated the violence.

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