BBC NEWS COVERAGE OF TERRORISM IN ISRAEL

The Israel Security Agency’s report on terror attacks during April 2023 shows that throughout the month a total of 194 incidents took place: 147 in Judea & Samaria, 44 in Jerusalem and inside the ‘green line’ and three in the Gaza Strip sector.

In Judea & Samaria, Jerusalem and inside the ‘green line’ the agency recorded 111 attacks with petrol bombs, 47 attacks using pipe bombs, 19 shooting attacks, seven arson attacks, three vehicular attacks and two stabbing attacks. In the Gaza Strip sector the launch of 66 rockets and three incidents of anti-aircraft fire were recorded.

Four civilians were murdered and eighteen people were wounded in attacks during April.

Three members of the security forces were injured in a vehicular attack near Beit Ummar on April 1^st. The BBC News website did not report that attack by a member of the Palestinian Authority security forces.

Two members of the security forces were injured in a stabbing attack near the Nir Tzvi junction on April 4^th which did not receive any BBC coverage.

One member of the security forces was injured in a shooting attack near the community of Adam (Geva Binyamin) on April 6^th which was not reported by the BBC.

Three civilians were murdered in a shooting attack near Hamra in the Jordan Rift Valley on April 7^th which did receive coverage on the BBC News website:

BBC DOUBLE STANDARDS ON TERRORISM EVIDENT IN HAMRA ATTACK REPORTS

One foreign national was murdered and five injured in a vehicular attack in Tel Aviv on April 7^th which was reported by the BBC.

One civilian was wounded in a stabbing attack at the Gush Etzion junction on April 17^thwhich was not reported by the BBC.

Two civilians were wounded in a shooting attack in the Shimon Hatzadik (Sheikh Jarrah) neighbourhood of Jerusalem on April 18^th which was not reported by the BBC.

Four civilians were wounded in a vehicular attack near Jerusalem’s Mahane Yehuda market on April 24^th which was reported on the BBC News website.

The BBC News website reported the rocket attacks launched from the Gaza Strip between April 5^th and April 7^th:

AN OVERVIEW OF BBC WEBSITE REPORTING ON PESSAH ROCKET ATTACKS

To summarise, three of the 194 terror attacks which occurred during April were reported by the BBC News website, along with the rocket attacks from the Gaza Strip.

Throughout the first four months of 2023 the BBC News website reported 2.2% of the terror attacks which actually took place and 89.5% of the resulting fatalities.

With regard to BBC News website coverage of Israel’s counter-terrorism operations, the corporation’s reporting continues to fail to adequately inform audiences how many of the Palestinian casualties were members of terrorist organisations and/or males involved in violence at the time.

Of the twelve Palestinian or Israeli Arab casualties during April, seven were killed while carrying out attacks. At least six were affiliated with terrorist organisations and three were members of the Palestinian Authority’s security forces.