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Friday, 8 April 2011

Erased from history

The BBC report 'Gaza: Israeli strikes 'kill six' despite Hamas truce' and link the story to the main news front page, coverage that the Fogel family murder did not receive.

More interesting is what recent attacks are deemed worthy of reporting:
'On Thursday, members of its (Hamas) military wing hit an Israeli school bus with an anti-tank shell, injuring two people.

Friday's deaths raise to 10 the number of Palestinians killed since Thursday, amid the worst fighting since 2009.

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Israeli artillery fire and air strikes have been heard across Gaza throughout much of the day, our correspondent says, and at least six rockets were fired into Israel, hitting an area north of the Gaza Strip, according to Israeli police.

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Israel says it is responding to the school bus attack on Thursday near the Nahal Oz kibbutz. A 16-year-old boy suffered a serious head wound and was taken to hospital for surgery.

Militants from the al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of Hamas, hit the bus with an anti-tank shell. They said it was in response to the killing of Hamas leaders last week.

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At least 10 Palestinians have been killed since Thursday and more than 40 have been injured.

Several of those killed were civilians, including a mother and her 21-year-old daughter, as well as a 55-year-old man in the southern city of Khan Younis, Palestinian medics say.

Another 50-year-old civilian who had been sitting outside his home died when he was hit by tank fire on Thursday, an official in Gaza said.

Four others were identified as leaders of the Qassam Brigades and two of Friday's victims had been members of the group, Hamas said.

Last month saw some of the worst violence since Israel launched a major offensive in Gaza in December 2008.

In one week in March, at least 10 Palestinians - including several civilians and children - were killed by Israeli attacks.

In the same period, militants in Gaza fired more than 80 rockets and mortar shells into southern Israel.'
No mention of the murdered Fogel family or even of the British citizen killed by a Palestinian terrorist bomb in Jerusalem. Why do the BBC consider only the deaths of Palestinian civilians worthy of comment not Israeli ones?

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