An article in The Times on the surge of Palestinian violence late last week (“Three killed in West Bank clashes”, Feb. 6) includes the following claim:
In the early hours of this morning, the army went into Jenin to demolish the home of a man it described as a “militant” but faced resistance which turned into a riot.
However, he wasn’t merely “described as a militant”. As multiple media outlets make clear, the Palestinian man, Ahmed al-Qanba, was a “convicted” terrorist – a member of the cell that murdered Rabbi Raziel Shevah in Havat Gilad in 2018.
Additionally, the Times article included this, regarding a car-ramming attack that same day.
Three Palestinians have been killed in clashes in the West Bank and 12 Israeli soldiers injured in a ramming attack in Jerusalem in the worst surge in violence since President Trump announced his “deal of the century” peace plan last week.
The soldiers were young recruits said by the army to have been on a group “heritage tour” of Jerusalem’s Old City, part of the area of the city already annexed by Israel, when they came under attack in the early hours of this morning. A car deliberately drove into them from behind, before speeding off.
Times editors upheld both of our complaints.
Here’s the revised language to the first error – the sentence on the Palestinian “described” as a “militant”
In a separate incident, also in the early hours, troops faced resistance when they went into the West Bank town of Jenin to demolish the home of a man who is in prison for terrorist offences.
The other sentence, falsely suggesting that rammed soldiers were in “annexed” east Jerusalem, was also revised, and no longer describes the attacks as taking place in the Old City.
We commend editors for the prompt correction.
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