Border Police bomb disposal experts and IDF troops on Tuesday located and destroyed an explosive device that had previously been planted in the Nur Shams area, within the Ephraim Brigade's sector. It is suspected that the device was intended to target security forces operating in the area. The operation was launched following intelligence indicating the presence of an old explosive device planted in the area. Acting on the information, troops from the Ephraim Brigade, together with Judea and Samaria Border Police bomb disposal experts, arrived at the location to search for the device.
During the operation, the forces successfully located the explosive device. Border Police sappers then destroyed the device in a controlled detonation. Police stated that the destruction of the device eliminated the threat it posed to security forces operating in the area. Police also emphasized that the discovery of the device, which had been planted some time ago, highlights the importance of ongoing security operations throughout Judea and Samaria.
Arutz Sheva reports that Border Police and Israeli occupation forces found and destroyed an old explosive device near Nur Shams. In its own headline it places the event in "Samaria", ends on "Judea and Samaria", and never once says the occupied West Bank. A reader is not told the territory is under an occupation the ICJ has ruled unlawful.
Uses the occupation's words
Serious
“in Samaria”
Why this matters
The headline places the event "in Samaria", in the outlet's own voice, with no mention of the West Bank or of occupation.
The impression it gives
A reader believes the area is a recognised part of Israel called Samaria, not occupied Palestinian territory.
The context
The ICJ's July 2024 advisory opinion found Israel's occupation of the West Bank unlawful. The article never uses the words occupied or West Bank anywhere, and this outlet uses the same term in its own voice in earlier reports.
How we know
On the recordThe International Court of Justice's July 2024 advisory opinion found Israel's occupation of the West Bank and East Jerusalem unlawful.icj-cij.org (opens in a new tab)
Checked against the whole articleIt never uses the words “occupied”, “West Bank” and “occupation”.
The closing sentence repeats "Judea and Samaria" as reported speech with no quotation marks, so the term reads as the outlet's own description of the territory.
The impression it gives
A reader ends the article with the territory named only by the Israeli state's term, and the ongoing raids presented as routine policing of Israeli land.
The context
The territory is the occupied West Bank, and its occupation has been ruled unlawful by the ICJ. The article gives the reader no other name for it.
How we know
On the recordThe International Court of Justice's July 2024 advisory opinion found Israel's occupation of the West Bank and East Jerusalem unlawful.icj-cij.org (opens in a new tab)
In the headline“Explosive device detonated in Samaria”
Israeli Border Police and occupation forces said they found and destroyed an old explosive device near Nur Shams in the occupied West Bank, in a controlled detonation.