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BBC News coverage of terrorism in Israel – September 2019
The Israel Security Agency's report on terror attacks (Hebrew) during September 2019 shows that throughout the month a total of 140 incidents took place including 89 in Judea & Samaria, 36 in Jerusalem and inside the 'green line' and 15 in the Gaza Strip sector.
In Judea & Samaria and Jerusalem the agency recorded 105 attacks with petrol bombs, 7 attacks using pipe bombs, five arson attacks, two shooting attacks, three stabbing attacks and two stone-throwing attacks.
Incidents recorded in the Gaza Strip sector included three attacks with petrol bombs, two attacks using pipe bombs, two IED attacks, one shooting attack and five incidents of rocket fire.
Seven people were wounded in attacks throughout the month of September. Three members of the security forces were wounded by petrol bombs in Jerusalem in two separate incidents. Two civilians were wounded in a stabbing attack in Azun on September 7th. On September 20th an off-duty soldier was injured in a stone-throwing attack while driving near Ma'ale Shomron and on September 25th a civilian was wounded in a stabbing attack near Modi'in. None of those incidents was given any coverage on the BBC News website.
Neither did the BBC report the death (not included in the ISA report) of a 74-year-old woman who was seriously injured in a rocket attack on Ashkelon last November.
Just one of the five incidents of rocket attacks from the Gaza Strip during September received any mention from the BBC and that was because incoming rockets interrupted a September 10th election rally in Ashdod.
The BBC News website reported 0.7% of the terror attacks during September and since the start of the year has covered 23.6% of the attacks which have taken place and 72.7% of the terror related fatalities.
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By Hadar Sela • Posted in BBC, BBC Jerusalem Bureau, Impartiality, Omission, Public Purposes	• Tagged BBC, BBC Jerusalem Bureau, BBC News, BBC Online, Gaza Strip, Israel, Jerusalem, Judea & Samaria, Q3 2019, Rocket Attacks, terrorism
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