On September 16th the IDF announced that a rocket had been found the previous week in the village of Kfar Ni’ma, north-west of Ramallah. On September 19th footage was released of the launch of that rocket and on the same day, Israeli security forces announced the arrests of members of the terror squad responsible for the launch in the Ramallah area.
“The Israeli military said Friday it had caught a Palestinian terror cell in the Ramallah area of the West Bank that had been building rockets intended to be launched at Israeli targets. […]
Overnight, IDF soldiers, Shin Bet officers, and members of the police counter-terror Yamam unit reached a building in the area to detain members of the cell, the military said.
The IDF said the forces opened fire on the building, including with shoulder-launched missiles, and three suspects emerged who were then detained and handed over to the Shin Bet for questioning.
Inside the building, the military said troops found dozens of rocket parts, including two completed rockets that did not yet have a warhead. The soldiers also found dozens of explosive devices and explosive material, alongside other evidence tying the cell members to the efforts to build and launch rockets. […]
At another location in the Ramallah area, the military said soldiers found a lathe used to build the rocket parts.”
On the night of September 23rd, the IDF found an additional rocket near Tulkarem.
Although efforts to establish rocket cells in Judea and Samaria are not new and incidents of rocket fire from that area have taken place in the past, it was particularly notable that the BBC News website ignored those events completely, even though they became known during a week in which it published at least fifteen reports relating to the topic of recognition of a Palestinian state – including by the UK.
Even more remarkable is the fact that two of the BBC’s reports were filed from places under Palestinian Authority control: Jenin (where Hamas rocket production has taken place in the past) and Ramallah.
“Israel will occupy more West Bank land, but recognition matters, mayor tells BBC” Lucy Williamson, “BBC Middle East correspondent in Jenin”, 21/9/25
“Cities like Jenin were put under the full control of the Palestinian Authority three decades ago, under the Israeli-Palestinian Oslo Peace Accords.
They were meant to be the seeds from which statehood would grow.
But Israel says it was terrorism that flourished there. In January, it sent tanks into Jenin and the neighbouring city of Tulkarem to crush armed Palestinian groups, saying it would apply lessons learned in Gaza.
Since then, Israeli forces have remained, razing large areas of the camps in both cities, and demolishing buildings in other areas.” [emphasis added]
“‘We need solutions’: Palestinians in West Bank fear recognition is not enough” Tom Bennett, “Ramallah, occupied West Bank”, 23/9/25
“In the almost two years since the Hamas-led attack on southern Israel that killed about 1,200 people and saw 251 taken hostage, triggering the war in Gaza, Israel has tightened its control over the West Bank.
It has targeted pockets of armed Palestinian resistance at refugee camps in the north, carrying out major military operations and large-scale building demolitions, displacing many people from their homes.”
Ramallah is located just 13 kilometres away from the site where the rockets were found four days prior to Bennett’s visit. Nevertheless, neither he nor Williamson (or any of the other BBC journalists reporting on the recognition of a Palestinian state by assorted Western countries) had anything to tell members of the BBC’s funding public trying to form their own opinions on that story about those Palestinian efforts to augment terror infrastructure in PA controlled areas, even as the various declarations of recognition were being prepared and made.
On October 1st it was announced that following the interrogation of the terror cell apprehended days earlier, another stash of rockets and drones had been found in Beitunia, near Ramallah. Once again BBC audiences saw no reporting on that story.
Such information is of course crucial to members of the BBC’s funding public (and their representatives) trying to understand the background to – and implications of – the decision made by the UK government and others.
Bennett and Williamson are part of the Hamas propaganda division of the BBC.
They have no ears nor eyes as far as weapons to attack Israel is concerned but have mouths that spew out Goebbels propaganda.
Had they been reporting in the 1930’s they would have followed the Nazi propaganda with respect to the Jews of Germany declaring all was fine and the Jews were to blame for all of Germany’s ills