Jerusalem – The Israeli Foreign Ministry filed a formal complaint to the BBC about its reporting on the violence in the south Thursday.
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A BBC headline stated “Gaza air strikes ‘kill woman and child’ after rockets hit Israel,” quoting the Hamas-run Gaza Health Ministry. The article’s subheadline said “militants… fired dozens of rockets,” when the count had gone up to over 150. Its tweet leading to the article reads: “Israeli air strikes ‘kill woman and toddler.’
Foreign Ministry Spokesman Emmanuel Nahshon responded on twitter: “Your title is deliberately misleading!!! Israel reacted following the launching of over 100 rockets at Southern Israel , targeting and injuring civilians. Change it immediately!!!”
An hour later, with the article unchanged, Nahshon tweeted that he is making a formal complaint.
“This title is a deliberate misrepresentation of reality (that’s the polite equivalent of ‘this is a LIE’, if you don’t get it),” Nahshon wrote. “Israelis were targeted by Hamas and IDF acts to protect them. Change it IMMEDIATELY!!!”
The BBC later changed its online headline to “Gaza air strikes ‘kill woman and child’ after rockets hit,” but left the tweet up.
The Israeli Embassy to the UK filed a formal complaint to the BBC.
“The headline is back-to-front,” embassy spokesman Udi Avivi wrote. “Hamas struck Israel before Israel responded with air strikes. Therefore, I would ask for the headline to be corrected according to the order in which the events occurred.”
As for the tweet, Avivi pointed out that “Hamas fired over 70 missiles into Israel, injuring 23 people. Dozens of villages were targeted. Thousands of families spent the night in bomb shelters.”
“Disappointingly, none of these facts are deemed relevant for BBC World on Twitter,” he added.
Nahshon told The Jerusalem Post: “We demand that they change the tweet, even if that means deleting it and putting up a new one,” he said.
Others on twitter responded to Nahshon with more examples of similar news coverage, such as an account called “Dutch people supporting Israel,” which sent an article from Dutch news site AD, with the headline: “Three dead by Israeli attack on Gaza, pregnant woman with child one of the victims.”
Tricky yoni or whatever wacky Yoni’s new screen name is . Take heed . The media is the enemy of the Jewish people . Fake fake news . Never again will Jewish blood be cheapened by the intellectual elites of our society .
Please refer to my comment in the prior vin article articulating this concept even more leghnthly
Fake news at its best.
Israel are busy with stupid twitter nonsense,
They must make peace with the Arabs ym”s & only solution is to give back what israel stole from the Arabs in 1967 so just give them back there houses & I promise you it will be peace like 100 years ago,
Israel has so much blood on there hands… it’s so dengrous for a jew to live in israel, so many new almunos & ysomim this year alone happens only cause israel provacatins,
You can’t fight hashem, he begged not to take a land on your own before משיח comes.
as always Trump is right the news IS the enemy of the people and its all fake news.
#3 “I promise you there will be peace….” If you were dealing with semi normal people you might have a point. However, the Muslims want ALL of Israel and the Jews dead. It’s in their charter. Iran says it every day. You’re an absolute idiot if you believe what these murderers say, along with all your stupid friends. In fact, Muslims want all the infidels dead and the Muslim caliphate to rule the world. And it doesn’t matter if only 1% of Muslims want you dead and the rest don’t care. 1% of 1.5 billion = 15 million terrorists that want everyone dead. Google Jay Austin and Lauren Geoghegan and ask yourselves what threat did they pose?
How sad for the EU….slowly but surely, they are Falling Deeper into an Abyss…
Looks like CNN isn’t the only fake news organization out there.
Thee BBC had it’s heyday during WWII today the Pakistani Tribune is far more reliable !!!
Israel are busy with stupid twitter nonsense,
They must make peace with the Arabs ym”s & only solution is to give back what israel stole from the Arabs in 1967 so just give them back there houses & I promise you it will be peace like 100 years ago,
Israel has so much blood on there hands… it’s so dengrous for a jew to live in israel, so many new almunos & ysomim this year alone happens only cause israel provacatins,
You can’t fight hashem, he begged not to take a land on your own before משיח comes.