Israelis kill five in W Bank raid

Blares the BBC headline. But five what? It's not until you read, if you read, the story that you find out this:

Three of those killed were militants of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades, who shot at Israeli soldiers during a raid.

What of the other two?

Two other young men were shot dead, including one when soldiers opened fire at group of protestors throwing stones.

But how does the BBC know this for certain in order to make such a declaration?

On Sunday, witnesses said two teenage boys from Nablus were shot dead by the Israeli army while throwing stones at Israeli vehicles.

The army said they shot the teenagers while they were planting explosives.

Well, who are these witnesses that the BBC takes their word over the Israeli army? We are not told but that doesn't stop the BBC from quoting them.

When one of the armoured vehicles broke down, Palestinian youths began pelting it with stones, witnesses said.

Ibrahim Saidi, 19, was fatally wounded when the soldiers opened fire at the group of youths, witnesses said.

The Israeli army said he had been carrying a bomb.

And on and on it goes.

Witnesses quoted by AFP news agency said Israeli troops also opened fire on Palestinian rescue workers, wounding an ambulance driver and a nurse. The army said it was investigating.

You see the BBC doesn't care as long as it fits their anti-Israeli agenda.

Is there anything the BBC is not telling us? Come on, we are talking about the BBC after all.

Here's the AP headline and story.

Israeli Army Kills Top Militant

BALATA REFUGEE CAMP, West Bank - Israeli troops on Thursday killed five Palestinians, including a top militant who said just a day earlier that he would never be caught, in the largest West Bank military operation since Israel's pullout from the Gaza Strip last summer.

The three fugitives from the Al Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades were hiding in a crawlspace above the bathroom of a Balata house when soldiers ringed the building. A gun battle ensued, and at one point, the gunmen threw an explosive device toward the soldiers. Two soldiers were wounded, one seriously.

At the time of the blast, a group of medics and journalists had assembled nearby, after being prevented by troops from entering the camp, witnesses said. One medic, Khaled Saragic, said that when a soldier standing next to a jeep heard the blast, he started firing toward medics and journalists, wounding three people.

Also, Physicians for Human Rights-Israel charged that soldiers were impeding the movement of ambulances. Late Thursday afternoon, they said, four ambulances were trapped inside the camp.

The military denied that soldiers fired indiscriminately or that ambulances were detained. However, the army said ambulances were checked because of attempts to smuggle fugitives out of the camp.

The military said it was not aware of such incidents, and said all gunfire was directed toward armed Palestinians or those throwing firebombs.

More.

The Israeli military said troops entered Balata after receiving warnings that Al Aqsa and two other militant groups in and around the West Bank city of Nablus were planning attacks against Israelis. Before the raid, soldiers in the Nablus area seized four bomb belts, said Maj. Sharon Assman, an army officer in the area. Such belts are used in suicide bombings.

The AP use the same "witnesses said" over and over like the BBC but at least the AP give you the true picture of what happened and didn't cover up for Palestinian terrorists like the BBC did.

Palestinians have been caught in the past using ambulances to smuggle arms and terrorist.
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