BBC news priorities

It has emerged that two of the mortars fired at southern Israel from Gaza yesterday were phosphorous:

'A police bomb disposal team examined a number of mortars that were fired today. We can confirm that two out of the nine mortars contained phosphorous,” Rosenfeld added.

Israel Police said it was not the first time that phosphorous shells had been fired at Israel from Gaza.

Haim Yalin, head of the Eshkol Regional Council where the phosphorous mortars landed, reacted sharply to the news of the phosphorus mortar attacks. “These weapons have been banned by the Geneva convention. They cause burns among victims and they kill. This is an agricultural area, and we now have to explain to farmers how to deal with burns in light of the phosphorus mortars,” he told the Post.'

Wow, I turned to the BBC whose virulent opposition to phosphorous munitions was such a staple of their reporting of Israel's action against Palestinian terrorists in recent years. Oddly there seems to be no report on the BBC news site.

I did find one oblique reference to palestinain terrorist rocket attacks on israel late on in this piece about Israel killing three Palestinian civilians who they thought were terrorists because 'one of the men had picked up a grenade launcher abandoned in a field, and Israeli troops mistakenly opened fire, thinking they were about to come under attack. '. The references to Palestinian attacks are short 'Rocket fire from Gaza has increased in the past week. No casualties resulted.' and dismissive of the threat. Once again one wonders how the BBC would report rocket attacks aimed at the BBC in White City that exploded on the roads outside and injured nobody; would they be as sanguine?

The BBC do headline the news that 'Israeli-Palestinian peace talks have made progress on the issue of Jewish settlements' as this is an issue that they can 'blame' Israel for, ignoring any responsibility on the Palestinians to cease attacks on Israel.



Thanks to Israely Cool for the spot.