Just a short AP item about Gaza.
Israeli Soldier Killed in Gunbattle
JERUSALEM (AP) – Hamas militants killed an Israeli soldier early Tuesday during a gunbattle in the Gaza Strip, the army and Palestinian officials said.The Israeli forces were just a few hundred yards inside Gaza when the firefight erupted, the army said. Hamas and allied militant group said their gunmen killed the soldier.
The Israeli army has been carrying out operations against militants in Gaza since June 25 when militants with ties to the ruling Hamas party captured an Israeli soldier in a cross-border raid.
Three paragraphs, a quick bias report:
In the headline: “Israeli soldier killed in Gunbattle,” we have one. Israeli soldiers are always dying passively. Who killed him? Hamas. If the situation were reversed, the headline would have been, “Israel kills Palestinian in Gaza,” and you’d have had to wait three paragraphs to find out he was a terrorist.
The “gunbattle” described in Ynet:
An initial inquiry of the incident revealed that the tracker led the force to a shed where terrorists were thought to be hiding. At least two gunmen were apparently hiding at the place and opened fire at the force from a short range. The tracker was hit in his head and the terrorists managed to escape the scene.
And the inevitable “cross-border raid” description of the account of the murder of IDF soldiers and the kidnapping of Gilad Shalit.
Three paragraphs. The AP bias is firmly entrenched.