Another Gaza missile attack ignored by the BBC

Late on July 1^st, a missile attack was launched from the Gaza Strip.

“A rocket was fired on Friday night from the Gaza Strip, striking a kindergarten in Sderot. The building was damaged, but no persons were physically wounded. One person suffered a panic attack, requiring treatment.

At 10:59pm, a Code Red rocket alert was sounded in Sderot and in several communities located within the Sha’ar Hanegev Regional Council. Residents ran for cover in protected shelters.”

The Israeli airforce later responded with strikes on Hamas infrastructure in the northern and central Gaza Strip.

As has overwhelmingly been the case since the beginning of 2016, there was no reporting of the attack on the BBC News website.

January 1^st: BBC News ignores Gaza missile attacks, BBC Arabic reports Israeli response

January 24^th: BBC News ignores Gaza missile attack again – in English

March 11^th: BBC News continues to ignore missile attacks on Israelis – in English

March 15^th: missile attack not reported.

May 6^th: Patchy and selective BBC News reporting of Gaza border incidents

May 25^th: missile attack not reported, response reported in Arabic.

July 1^st: missile attack not reported.

That pattern of reporting has been predominant since the end of the conflict between Israel and terrorists in the Gaza Strip in 2014. Audiences continue to be systematically deprived of information vital to their understanding of this particular “international issue”, in clear breach of the pledges to its funding public laid out in the BBC’s public purposes.