A truce was declared, so naturally PIJ launched more rockets and Israel withheld fire. That’s a truce in the Arab world: They get to continue to try to kill Israelis, and Israel doesn’t react. This is also, of course, a “truce” as defined by the media.
Israel-Gaza violence ebbs as truce takes effect
Israel halted its airstrikes against Gaza Strip militants early Tuesday and rocket fire from the Palestinian territory ebbed as a cease-fire ending four days of clashes appeared to be taking effect.
This is what is considered a truce:
Six mortars fired by Palestinian terrorists in Gaza at around noon Tuesday landed in open areas within the Negev’s Eshkol Regional Council. One of the shells exploded inside a local community, but there were no reports of injury or damage.
The AP doesn’t see fit to put that in its lead. When do you find out that the “militants” are still firing rockets? Eight paragraphs down. Remember that only the first three to five paragraphs make it into the “World News” section of your local newspapers.
The military said it carried out no airstrikes after the cease-fire took hold. Rosenfeld said eight rockets and mortars were fired at Israel after that deadline, causing no injuries.
You do, however, find out whose fault it was in paragraph five:
Months of quiet along the Gaza-Israel border were shattered on Friday with Israel’s killing of a militant commander in Gaza whom it accused of plotting to attack Israelis.
Terrorists fired 222 rockets into Israel, and here’s how the AP describes their effect:
At least 24 Palestinians, including at least four civilians, died in the cross-border fighting that followed, with the cause of another civilian’s death in dispute. There were no Israeli fatalities, but the lives of 1 million people living in southern Israel were disrupted by frequent sirens warning them to take cover from incoming rockets.
You got that? Schools have been closed since Sunday. People aren’t going to work. And they’re sleeping in bomb-proof rooms, and making sure that they stay no more than a few seconds away from shelter. And what is it? A “disruption.” Here, have a look at the “disruption” of Israeli lives, and see how much the AP minimizes what it’s like to live under the threat of death by missiles from Gaza.
Reuters has never found an Israel story it couldn’t slant against the Jewish state. But even Reuters is more factual than the AP about the “truce“. Of course they maximize “militant” deaths and don’t tell you that 20 of the 24 were terrorists until the eight paragraph, but at least they’re honest about the “truce”.
Israel-Gaza truce taking hold
An Egyptian-brokered truce between Israel and militant groups in the Gaza Strip began to take hold on Tuesday after four days of violence in which 25 Palestinians were killed and 200 rockets were fired at Israel.The number of Palestinian rocket attacks dropped sharply after the ceasefire went into effect overnight, and no major towns in southern Israel were targeted. The Israeli military said six projectiles had hit, causing no casualties, and that there had been no Israeli air strikes in the Gaza Strip.
Previous ceasefire deals after earlier rounds of fighting have often got off to a slow start, with guns gradually falling silent within a day or two.
Just in case you were wondering, the AP’s use of the word “ebb” is probably what their editors use to justify their portrayal of the truce as a truce: It means “a point or condition of decline”. So yes, violence is declining. Firing six mortars instead of dozens is a decline. But it is not a sign of a “cease-fire taking effect.”
Your anti-Israel media, once more.
Arab definition of “cease fire”:- Israel ceases, we fire.