November 15th, 2012
NewsRescue– In the rising tension in Israel and the Gaza strip of Palestine, with the world waiting to see if and any Gaza retaliation after Israel launched the largest military escalation in years, killing among others, the head of the Palestinian Hamas military army, the BBC as noticed by PrisonPlanet, has again showed what can be read as its disregard for Palestinian existence when compared to its respect of Israeli life. NewsRescue strongly abhors the killing of innocents on both sides.
The BBC apparently thinks that one Israeli life is worth 5 Palestinian lives and that the 15 dead Palestinians are not even worth mentioning until the 4th paragraph. The article also describes Israelis as “people” – a term not afforded to the dead Palestinians. -PrisonPlanet
Now, view below how BBC reports on Israeli’s killed, referring to them as “people”, and raising headline and alarm at the number, 3, killed, while referring to the Palestinians in the third paragraph as mere… Palestinians, and just briefly noting them, all the way in the third paragraph.
