Daily Mail: Palestinian Terrorist Shot Dead in “Retaliation” For Stabbing Soldier

On Wednesday, a female IDF soldier was seriously injured after being stabbed in the neck by a Palestinian terrorist. The attacker was shot dead at the scene. This is how the Daily Mail chose to…

Simon Plosker
October 22, 2015
12:00 am

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On Wednesday, a female IDF soldier was seriously injured after being stabbed in the neck by a Palestinian terrorist. The attacker was shot dead at the scene.

This is how the Daily Mail chose to present the story:

Shot dead “in retaliation?!”

The headline places the Palestinian at the center of the story as the victim of “clashes with Israelis.” The assertion that he was shot dead “in retaliation” falsely implies that Israeli forces took revenge in an act of malevolence rather than an act of self-defense.

In addition, the Daily Mail has it wrong regarding the condition of the Israeli victim. Contrary to a “light wound to her neck,” the female soldier was evacuated to hospital in a serious condition having received life-threatening injuries.

HonestReporting has contacted the Daily Mail requesting that the headline is corrected. Watch this space.

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Tags: Daily Mail, distorted facts, headline bias, Palestinian terrorism

Simon Plosker

With over two decades of experience in various non-governmental organizations in the UK and Israel, Simon Plosker returned to HonestReporting in October 2022 as Editorial Director having previously been part of the organization’s management team from 2005 to 2020. Prior to his first spell at HonestReporting, Simon worked in Israel for NGO Monitor, BICOM, and served for a short period in the IDF Spokesperson’s Unit. He was Managing Editor of the Geneva-based NGO United Nations Watch for two years before moving back to the frontline defending Israel from media bias. Simon has a BSoc.Sc in International Studies and Political Science from the University of Birmingham and an MSc in History of International Relations from the London School of Economics. He immigrated to Israel in 2001 from London.

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