BBC's Inversion of Israel Strike on Gaza

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Consider seeing this article in the news.

Qassam strikes near Ashkelon kindergarten, wounding girl

This morning a Qassam rocket hit near a kindergarten in a kibbutz near Ashkelon injuring a 14-year-old girl. The girl was treated on the spot by Magen David Adom paramedics and then taken to hospital for further evaluation; two other people were treated for shock. A number of buildings in the area sustained light damage.

The Israeli Air Force fired at seven targets in Gaza earlier this morning in response to 10 mortar shells that landed in Israeli territory on Monday. An IDF spokesperson said that the air force struck three smuggling tunnels in northern Gaza and one in southern Gaza. Two members of the military wing of Hamas, the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades were reported by AFP to have been injured in the air strikes.

I presume you would understand the context for the Israel strike on Gaza much better than if you read the article as this;

Israeli air strike on Gaza as tensions rise

BBC correspondent, Jon Donnison, says there has been a recent rise in tension along the Gaza-Israel border in recent weeks.

Israeli jets have carried out air strikes in the Gaza Strip, injuring at least two Palestinian militants, doctors say.

It follows a strike on Saturday in which which killed five militants.

This was the deadliest attack since Operation Cast Lead - Israel's major offensive in Gaza almost two years ago.

BBC Gaza correspondent, Jon Donnison, says there has been a recent rise in tension along the Gaza-Israel border in recent weeks.

Israel says its latest air strikes targeted tunnels, a Hamas training centre and a weapons factory in Gaza.

The rockets fired by Palestinian militant groups into Israel rarely cause injury or damage, but they do cause widespread fear.

They are not fired by Hamas, the Islamist movement that controls Gaza, but by smaller militant groups. Nevertheless Israel says Hamas is responsible because it controls the territory.

The Israeli military says the air strikes were in retaliation for the firing of 13 rockets and mortars at Israel this week.

Israel Radio says the rocket fired by Gaza militants on Tuesday landed near a nursery school. No serious injuries were reported.

This week Israel announced it was upgrading its tank force along the Gaza border.

It is almost two years since the war in Gaza which left 1,300 Palestinians and 13 Israelis dead. Few analysts here believe another war is imminent but many believe it will happen eventually, our correspondent says.

The United Nations says that in 2010, 55 Palestinians, including 22 civilians, have been killed by Israeli military action in Gaza.

The UN says over 200 Palestinians have been injured in the same period.

In the past 18 months one person in Israel, a Thai farm worker, has been killed by a rocket fired from Gaza.

According to Israeli Defence Force figures, 180 rockets and mortars have been fired into Israel by militants in 2010.

Anybody who can't see the blatant and sickening bias in the above article, or chooses to justify it, needs a reality check.

Perhaps the BBC would rather see this kind of scenario.

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Just to further contrast the evident bias in the above BBC article, even among media sources who tend to ingratiate themselves with their majority Muslim audience, here's how Reuters have reported this incident.

Kindergarten near-miss highlights Gaza risks

By Douglas Hamilton – 12 mins ago

KIBBUTZ ZIKIM, Israel (Reuters) – A rocket fired from Gaza exploded near an Israeli kindergarten Tuesday as cross-border violence surged in the approach to the second anniversary of Israel's war in the Hamas Islamist-run enclave.
No one was hurt at the preschool but a teenage girl in a nearby building was cut by flying glass in the shower.
"We were lucky," said Ilan Goldsmith, community manager at Kibbutz Zikim, just north of the Gaza Strip. "It exploded at quarter to eight this morning, the exact time when parents are bringing their children in ... 28 children."
The Palestinian-made Qassam rocket corkscrewed into the kibbutz, he said, exploding on a path about 10 meters (30 feet) from the kindergarten and two adjacent nursery buildings for the under-three year olds.
In retaliatory strikes, Israeli aircraft hit targets in Gaza, wounding five Hamas gunmen, three of whom were listed in critical condition, Palestinian officials and medics said.
"The situation in the south is tense and fragile, and it could deteriorate if a rocket attack causes a large number of casualties," Lieutenant-General Gabi Ashkenazi, the Israeli military's chief of staff, told a parliamentary committee.
An Israeli military spokesman said at least 14 rockets had been fired from Gaza -- which is under an Israeli military blockade -- in the past two days. An Israeli air strike in Gaza Saturday killed five militants from a rocket squad, in the heaviest toll during sporadic clashes this year.
HAMAS BLAMES ISRAEL
Responsibility for Tuesday's rocket attack was claimed by a group calling itself the Army of Islam, which has the same "global jihad" ideology as the al Qaeda movement. It said it was responding "to the massacres committed by the Zionist enemy."
Hamas spurns permanent coexistence with the Jewish state, but its men have tried to curb the rocket fire from Gaza in recent years. Smaller groups continue to carry out attacks.
Hamas responded angrily to Tuesday's Israeli strikes.
"The Occupation (Israel) bears responsibility for blowing the situation up," Hamas spokesman Fawzi Barhoum said.
"It is a moral, humanitarian and national obligation to defend our people, land and sacred sites if our Zionist enemy insists on pressing ahead with its aggression."
Israeli forces killed about 1,400 Palestinians in a three-week offensive on Gaza which began on December 27, 2008, after an unofficial truce collapsed under the pressure of sustained Hamas rocket fire and Israeli counter-attacks.
The Israeli army says more than 200 missiles, rockets and mortars have been fired from Gaza this year.
"We're witnessing a certain escalation," Information Minister Yuli Edelstein told reporters last week at a briefing on Israel's program to open Gaza's Israeli-controlled crossing point at Kerem Shalom to more trade.
The capacity of the logistics hub is being expanded from 100 goods trucks a day to 250, and to 400 by next year.
Critics of Israel's three-year-old blockade say it has only made life harder for Gaza's 1.5 million Palestinians. Hamas won elections in the enclave in 2006 then drove out the rival Fatah faction, which controls the West Bank, in fighting in 2007.
Goldsmith said Zikim residents enjoyed a period of calm following the Israeli offensive which ended on January 18, 2009, but had recently been expecting a return of random rocket fire.