Palestinians and Jewish settlers set fire to property in tit-for-tat arson attacks in the West Bank on Monday, according to a report on Army Radio via Telegram.The incidents began with Palestinian rioters setting fire to an Israeli vehicle near Kibbutz Mitzpe Shalem, a Jewish settlement overlooking the Dead Sea. The IDF imposed a curfew in response in the West Bank village of Azzun, located in the Kalkilya Governorate. In retaliation for the attack, Jewish rioters entered an area near the village of Beita, located near Nablus, and set fire to construction equipment and vehicles in a commercial area, the report added.
Numerous arson sites were documented in the area, it added, with no arrests having been reported to date. The IDF has yet to issue a statement regarding the attacks. The incidents are part of a series of arson attacks recorded earlier this month. Last week, Arab residents of Beit Ummar reportedly set fire to an Israeli vehicle near the settler farm Gafen Ami. The attack was allegedly in response to Jewish rioters having entered the Palestinian town and setting fire to Palestinian-owned vehicles, according to Army Radio.IDF prevents stone-throwing terror incidentsIn a separate incident overnight on Monday, the military conducted an operational activity with the goal of preventing stone-throwing and terror incidents near the Palestinian village of Burqa in the West Bank, according to a statement released by the IDF.
IDF soldiers identified several Palestinians preparing to throw stones at a highway utilized by Israelis, where previous stone-throwing attacks have been recorded. Soldiers responded with gunfire, neutralizing the threat, according to the IDF's statement.
The Jerusalem Post says Monday's arson began with Palestinians burning an Israeli vehicle, while its own later sentences report an earlier attack in which settlers set fire to Palestinian-owned vehicles in Beit Ummar. It gives the soldiers' account of the shooting near Burqa partly in its own voice and ends on the military's word 'neutralizing' without saying whether anyone was hit. It calls Gafen Ami a 'settler farm' days after reporting it as an illegal outpost that troops raided.
Tells the event as something else
Minor
“The incidents began with Palestinian rioters setting fire to an Israeli vehicle”
Why this matters
The Post makes Palestinians the starting point of the arson sequence.
The impression it gives
Palestinians began the cycle and settlers were responding.
The context
The article itself says Monday's incidents are part of an earlier series. In that series settlers first entered Beit Ummar and set fire to Palestinian-owned vehicles, as the Post reported days earlier.
How we know
Elsewhere in the article“part of a series of arson attacks recorded earlier this month”
Elsewhere in the article“Jewish rioters having entered the Palestinian town and setting fire to Palestinian-owned vehicles”
“Soldiers responded with gunfire, neutralizing the threat”
Why this matters
The Post ends the article on the army's word 'neutralizing' and says nothing more about what the gunfire did to the Palestinians it was aimed at.
The impression it gives
A threat was dealt with cleanly, and nobody was harmed in any way worth reporting.
The context
Soldiers fired on people. The article never says whether anyone was hit, wounded, killed or detained, and never notes that the army gave no such detail.
How we know
Checked against the whole articleIt never uses the words “wounded”, “injured”, “killed” and “hit”.
Five days earlier the Post reported that Gefen Ami is an illegal outpost. It said rioters set out from it to burn Palestinian cars, and that troops raided it.