Between April 1st and June 30th 2017, a total of seventy reports with content relating to Israel and/or the Palestinians appeared on the BBC News website’s Middle East page, one of which was carried over from the previous quarter.
Some of the reports were produced by other departments (e.g. BBC Technology) or appeared on other pages of the website (e.g. ‘UK’ or ‘US & Canada’) but were also posted on the Middle East page.
Although the Israeli security services recorded 356 terror attacks during the second quarter of 2017 (see ‘related articles’ below), just three of those attacks received coverage on the BBC News website.
(The dates in brackets represent the period of time in which a report was available to visitors to the website’s Middle East page.)
Israeli killed in West Bank car-ramming attack (6/4/17 to 10/4/17) discussed here
Jerusalem stabbing: Tributes paid to Hannah Bladon (14/4/17 to 18/4/17) discussed here
Israeli policewoman stabbed to death in Jerusalem (16/6/17 to 20/6/17) discussed here and here
Two other reports related to Syria:
Syria war: ‘Israeli strike’ hits military site near Damascus airport (27/4/17 to 30/4/17) discussed here and here
Syria war: Israel Patriot missile downs ‘target’ over Golan (27/4/17)
In all, 7.14% of the BBC News website’s reports in Q2 covered stories relating to security/terrorism. The additional topics found in the BBC’s coverage of Israel and the Palestinians during the second quarter of 2017 will be discussed in part two of this post.
Related Articles:
BBC News coverage of terrorism in Israel – April 2017
BBC News coverage of terrorism in Israel – May 2017
BBC News coverage of terrorism in Israel – June 2017
Reviewing BBC News website portrayal of Israel and the Palestinians in Q1 2017 – part one
Reviewing BBC News website portrayal of Israel and the Palestinians in Q1 2017 – part two
Reviewing BBC News website portrayal of Israel and the Palestinians in Q4 2016 – part two (includes links to previous reports)
