The BBC reporting Israel

It seems that every report on happenings in Israel have to include sentences that point out Israel's guilty 'occupation' of Palestinian land. The latest news report about the arrest of UK Consulate staff for planning a terrorist attack on an Israeli football stadium includes the following:

'East Jerusalem is considered occupied territory under international law. Israel took over the area in 1967, then annexed it in 1981 and sees it as its exclusive domain.

Israel claims the city as its eternal, undivided capital, while Palestinians want East Jerusalem to be the capital of any future Palestinian state.

The international community does not recognise Jerusalem as Israel's capital, and most countries maintain embassies in Tel Aviv.'

Are any news reports on other countries similarly encumbered by biased explanations of the background, or is Israel always a special case?

The same news story starts rather oddly:

'Two Palestinian employees of the UK consulate general in East Jerusalem have been arrested over an alleged weapons plot, Israeli officials say.

The UK Foreign Office confirmed the arrests, allegedly linked to plans to fire a rocket at a football stadium.'

The first sentence follows the usual BBC line that Israel 'claims' or 'says' whilst Palestinian claims are taken as fact. As the UK Foreign Office have 'confirmed' the story then why include the phrase 'Israeli officials say' at all'; is it not superfluous?