The Misplaced Focus of The Guardian and New York Times

UPDATE: The New York Times has an updated article, and  The Guardian has published an AP story that both reflect the death of Shlomit Krigman.

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As of this writing, it has been several hours since Shlomit Krigman, a 24 year old Israeli woman, passed away after being stabbed in a Palestinian terrorist attack. The headlines in the Guardian and New York Times remain unchanged.

The Guardian:

The New York Times:

Even if both headlines are soon updated to reflect the tragic development, the question remains, why do the original headlines focus on the attackers rather than the victims?

Israeli women assaulted in terror attack would be a more accurate headline.

In fact, today the Guardian has a headline for a story on an attack in Sweden that does just this:

Why the difference in how the subject is treated? Is an Israeli victim of terror not worthy of the same coverage as a Swedish woman?

Were these just errors made in the haste to quickly publish a story? Possibly, but if haste is such a factor, one could reasonably expect the headlines and articles to have been updated already. When coupled with the consistent focus by both papers on the attackers rather than the victims of the latest wave of Palestinian terror, it appears that this style is the preferred approach by both papers.