IDF soldiers evacuated residents from a neighborhood in Hebron on Friday as part of preparations to demolish the homes of the terrorists who carried out last week's attack in the city at Yehuda Junction.Staff Sergeant Ron Yonatan Roytman, aged 23, from Ashkelon, and Sergeant Yuval Shai Svilem, aged 20, from Hod Hasharon, were killed in the attack.
According to the IDF, Roytman was a squad commander, and Svilem was a combat soldier in the Ari Battalion (775), Search and Rescue Brigade. IDF sources said that the terrorists originally intended to carry out a larger attack on the heavily traveled Route 35, before realizing they would not get through the military checkpoint, deciding instead to attack the soldiers stationed there.New settlement outposts opening in Hebron Hills in response to attackOn Sunday, the Mount Hebron Regional Council announced it was establishing eight new outposts in the Hebron Hills in response to the terror attack.
Left out here: Leaves out what changes the picture
The article never says that both attackers were shot dead during the attack, as the Post itself reported. Without this, a reader believes the demolitions act against the attackers, when they fall on the homes of their families.
The council, which noted that it was fundraising to purchase security for the new outposts, said that it was establishing them “out of the deep grief and pain over the terrible attack at Yehuda Junction in which soldiers Ron Yonatan and Yuval Shai were murdered."Ariella Roitman and Danielle Greyman-Kennard contributed to this report.
The Jerusalem Post reports eight new settlement outposts in the Hebron Hills without saying they are illegal or that Hebron is in the occupied West Bank. It names and details the two Israeli soldiers, while the Palestinians in the story are never called Palestinian and appear only as unnamed residents and terrorists. It also calls the attackers terrorists in its own voice, uses evacuated for the removal of Hebron residents, and never says the attackers were killed, so the homes being demolished house their families.
Hedges the documented record
Serious
“the Mount Hebron Regional Council announced it was establishing eight new outposts in the Hebron Hills”
Why this matters
The Post reports eight new settlement outposts as a council announcement and nothing more. It never says they are illegal, and it never places Hebron in the occupied West Bank.
The impression it gives
That setting up outposts is a lawful local decision, a fitting response to grief.
The context
The ICJ has found Israel's settlements in the West Bank illegal and the occupation itself unlawful. The article never uses the words occupied, illegal or West Bank.
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)
On Sunday the Mount Hebron Regional Council said it would set up eight new outposts in the occupied West Bank, settlements the International Court of Justice has found illegal under international law.
Writes Palestinians out of their own story
Serious
“Staff Sergeant Ron Yonatan Roytman, aged 23, from Ashkelon, and Sergeant Yuval Shai Svilem, aged 20, from Hod Hasharon”
Why this matters
The Post gives the Israeli soldiers full names, ranks, ages, hometowns and units. The Palestinians in the story appear only as unnamed residents and terrorists.
The impression it gives
That the only people in this story with lives and identities are the Israeli soldiers.
The context
The attackers had names, and the families being forced out are Palestinian. The article never once uses the word Palestinian.
The headline calls the two attackers terrorists in the Post's own voice, with no attribution.
The impression it gives
That terrorism is an established, neutral description of an attack on soldiers at a checkpoint.
The context
The attack was on soldiers at a military checkpoint in occupied Hebron. The Times of Israel calls the men gunmen. The Post itself reported that the army was pushing to classify the incident as a clash rather than a terrorist attack.
The Post calls it a terror attack in its own voice when it reports the settlers' council's decision to open outposts.
The impression it gives
That the outposts answer an act of terrorism, which the outlet treats as settled fact.
The context
Other coverage calls it a shooting attack on soldiers at a checkpoint. The Post's own earlier report shows the army itself disputed calling it a terrorist attack.
“evacuated residents from a neighborhood in Hebron”
Why this matters
The Post uses evacuated, a word for moving people out of danger, for soldiers forcing families out of their homes so the houses can be demolished.
The impression it gives
That a small number of residents were moved for their own safety.
The context
The Post's earlier reports say hundreds of Palestinian families were removed, about 2,000 people, and searches found no weapons. These people were expelled from their homes by Israeli occupation forces.
The article never says that both attackers were shot dead during the attack, as the Post itself reported. Without this, a reader believes the demolitions act against the attackers, when they fall on the homes of their families.