A 20-year-old woman was lightly injured in a terrorist rock-throwing attack on an Israeli vehicle traveling on Route 60 in Samaria, between Eli and Tapuach. Palestinian Arabs threw rocks at the vehicle, one of which penetrated the windshield and struck the young woman. Magen David Adom (MDA) paramedics provided initial medical treatment at the scene before evacuating her to Beilinson Hospital in Petah Tikva with an injury to her chin. In April, a five-year-old Israeli boy was injured after a terrorist hurled rocks at a vehicle traveling on Route 60 in Samaria, between the Gilad Junction and the Yitzhar Haktana Junction.
The attack occurred as the vehicle passed near Havat Gilad, when a terrorist lying in wait on the side of the road threw rocks at the car. One of the stones struck the vehicle’s window with force, shattering it and striking the child squarely in the shoulder.
Arutz Sheva places the attack in "Samaria", the Israeli state's name for the area, and never once says the road runs through the occupied West Bank, whose occupation the ICJ has ruled unlawful. It also calls the unidentified stone throwers terrorists in its own voice and gives no source for the label.
Uses the occupation's words
Serious
“Samaria”
Why this matters
The headline names the place with the word "Samaria", the term the Israeli state uses for the northern occupied West Bank.
The impression it gives
A reader of the headline believes the attack happened in an ordinary region of Israel.
The context
The area is part of the occupied West Bank. The ICJ ruled in July 2024 that Israel's occupation of it is unlawful. The words "occupied" and "West Bank" appear nowhere in the article.
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” and “West Bank”.
In the opening sentence, the outlet places Route 60 "in Samaria" in its own voice as the only description of where the event happened.
The impression it gives
A reader believes the vehicle was on a normal Israeli road inside Israel, and nothing tells them the road runs through territory under military occupation.
The context
Route 60 at this point runs through the occupied West Bank, and the ICJ found that occupation unlawful. The article never gives the reader that location or its legal status.
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)
The outlet repeats "Samaria" for the April incident, so every place name in the article uses the occupation's vocabulary.
The impression it gives
A reader who finishes the article has never been told, even once, that these events happened in occupied territory.
The context
Both incidents took place in the occupied West Bank. The article uses "Samaria" three times and "West Bank" not once.
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)
For the April incident, the outlet calls an unidentified person a terrorist and adds that he was "lying in wait", again in its own voice with no source.
The impression it gives
A reader believes a known, premeditating terrorist was identified.
The context
The article gives no source for who threw the stones or for the claim of an ambush.