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 reports a rock attack on Route 60 in its own voice as happening in "Samaria", the occupation's name for the occupied West Bank, and never tells the reader the road runs through occupied territory between settlements. It also calls the unidentified rock throwers "terrorist" in its own voice, with no source, arrest or official statement behind the label.
Uses the occupation's words
Serious
“Samaria”
Why this matters
The headline places the attack in "Samaria", the Israeli government's and settler movement's biblical name for the northern occupied West Bank.
The impression it gives
A reader takes Samaria as an ordinary Israeli region and the road as Israeli home ground.
The context
The area is the occupied West Bank, whose occupation the ICJ has found unlawful. The article never uses the words occupied or West Bank anywhere.
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”.
The outlet locates the vehicle "in Samaria, between Eli and Tapuach" and names the two places as if they were Israeli towns.
The impression it gives
A reader believes an Israeli driver was travelling between two Israeli communities inside Israel.
The context
Eli and Tapuach are settlements in the occupied West Bank, and the ICJ has found the settlements illegal under international law. The article gives the reader neither fact about where the attack took place.
How we know
On the recordThe International Court of Justice's July 2024 advisory opinion found Israel's settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem illegal under international law.icj-cij.org (opens in a new tab)
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 background paragraph about the April attack repeats "Samaria" and then names Havat Gilad and Yitzhar with no description.
The impression it gives
The repetition fixes Samaria in the reader's mind as the settled name of an Israeli area.
The context
The places named sit in the occupied West Bank. The outlet's own earlier report shows it uses the same vocabulary as standard, writing "Judea and Samaria" even when reporting US senators speaking of "the West Bank".
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)
A 20-year-old Israeli woman was lightly injured when rocks were thrown at her car on Route 60 in the occupied West Bank, between the illegal settlements of Eli and Tapuach.
Uses a loaded word
Minor
“terrorist rock-throwing attack”
Why this matters
The outlet calls the rock throwing "terrorist" in its own voice.
The impression it gives
A reader takes it as established that the rock throwers were terrorists.
The context
The article names no suspect, reports no arrest and cites no police, army or other source for the label or for anything else. The verdict is the outlet's own, attributed to nobody.
How we know
Checked against the whole articleIt never uses the words “arrested”.