On March 19th a shooting attack took place in the town of Huwara.
“An Israeli man was shot and badly wounded in a terror attack while driving through the northern West Bank town of Huwara on Sunday, the military and medics said.
According to the Magen David Adom ambulance service, the man, in his 40s, was seriously hurt after sustaining gunshot wounds to his head and shoulder in the attack on the Route 60 highway. He was taken to the Beilinson Hospital in Petah Tikvah, where his condition was later upgraded to moderate-to-serious. Doctors said his life was not in danger.”
Visitors to the BBC News website saw no stand-alone coverage of that terror attack.
On March 25th two soldiers were wounded in another shooting attack in the same location.
“Two Israeli soldiers were wounded in a drive-by shooting attack in the northern West Bank town of Huwara on Saturday, the military said.
According to the Israel Defense Forces, the two soldiers were hit by gunfire while securing the Route 60 highway in the town, south of the West Bank city of Nablus.
It was the third shooting attack to occur in Huwara in recent weeks. […]
One of the soldiers was listed in serious condition, while the other suffered moderate injuries, the IDF said. Beilinson [hospital] said they were both stable and not in a life-threatening condition. Their families had been notified.”
That incident likewise did not receive any stand-alone coverage on the BBC News website.
On the evening of March 28th the BBC News website published an article by Tom Bateman headlined ‘Israel crisis a battle for country’s identity’ in which the second of those terror attacks was belatedly and briefly mentioned for the first time:
“As Monday’s political crisis intensified in Jerusalem, six Palestinians were injured in an attack on homes and vehicles in the West Bank town of Hawara.
Last week, two Israeli soldiers had been wounded in a Palestinian drive-by shooting attack there.
The town was the scene of an hours-long rampage by armed settlers last month, leaving one man dead and hundreds injured, after two Israelis were shot dead there by a Palestinian gunman.”
The first of those paragraphs relates to reports of violence in Huwara on March 27th but does not mention additional reports concerning later stone-throwing incidents in which four Israelis were apparently injured.
The third paragraph relates to violent incidents on February 26th which were reported in three dedicated BBC news website reports – two written and one filmed – and also covered in two additional reports on other topics. Readers may recall that the earlier terror attack in which the brothers Hillel and Yagel Yaniv were murdered did not receive any stand-alone coverage but was mentioned to one extent or another in five reports about other topics.
As we see, none of the three shooting attacks against Israelis (two of which have been claimed by the PFLP) that have taken place in Huwara in just over a month has been the topic of stand-alone reporting on the BBC News website: the platform that is portrayed by the corporation as ‘permanent public record‘.
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