On the evening of Friday October 31st a missile was fired from the Gaza Strip, landing in the Eshkol region and constituting a second breach of the ceasefire which ended Operation Protective Edge since it came into effect just over two months ago.
The BBC News website editors apparently did not consider that event newsworthy enough to justify an article on its Middle East page.
However, on November 4th the website’s staff obviously did reach the conclusion that a story about a punch-up at a football match in Tel Aviv was information BBC audiences could not do without.
And again on November 5th:
Go figure those priorities…