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| Several Israeli soldiers armed to block a Palestinian carrying his country's flag in a weekly protest in the village of Bilin on 20 October 2012. (Photo: Getty Images) |
Reporting attack in Itamar on Friday night, where two and three of their children were killed, Reuters states: "Soldiers of the Israeli occupation forces put up a barrier and is investigating the area around the settlement of Itamar, Palestinian, near the city of Nablus, for the suspect."
The phrase was later removed from the next edition of the news.
"Israeli Occupation Forces" or the abbreviation "IOF" is often used by activists to refer to the Israeli military.
News editor Alastair Macdonald, editor localized at Reuters world news in London and a former Reuters bureau chief in Jerusalem. He edited from reports from Gaza, Ramallah, Jerusalem, Damascus, and Washington.
He told the The Jerusalem Post on Sunday that he did not use the capitalized phrase or acronym.
Macdonald says the phrase is the one that tried to avoid by Reuters, "especially when capitalized or used by the acronym 'IOF,' which is a term associated with the language used by those in favor of one side of this conflict."
"We certainly did routinely refer to 'Israeli occupation of the West Bank', Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank and other permutations terms to explain to readers the political status of the region and Israeli troops mission there," he said.
Meanwhile, the BBC has been accused of burying the Itamar attack, with the focus instead on the settlement issue.
Media watchdog organization based in Jerusalem, Honest Reporting, says that most major media focus on the attack while the BBC focuses on solving the problem without special reports devoted to the attack.
Honest Reporting Abuse BBC said the incident as "shocking" and accused the news organization was "insensitive," said that when the news cycle moves, most of the media giving so much focus on the attack though as part of a settlement related news.
"But the BBC is almost buried the Fogel family massacre, once again demonstrates the obsession with the settlement issue above all other issues related to the Arab-Israeli conflict," read a statement by Honest Reporting.
"There is no specific reports of the attack displayed on the site. Instead, the story was included in a settlement story, and even then only a few lines. Yet the BBC, reported that the attack" has shocked many Palestinians. "
This is not the first time Israel has accused Reuters that act as anti-Israel. After the Gaza flotilla attack from Turkey, a blogging site, Little Green Football, sparked anger on the Internet after they accused the Reuters news service accidentally cut one detail in photos taken aboard the Mavi Marmara ship that tried to breach the blockade Israel in Gaza.
According to the blog, photos of Israel's military assault was released by the Turkish daily Hurriyet published by the Associated Press and untouched, but cut by Reuters to remove knives in the hands of an activist from one of the images, and a knife and pool of blood elsewhere.
According to the founder of Little Green Footballs, Charles Johnson, "Most people would consider that knife an important part of the context. There is great controversy over whether the activists armed or not. Cutting knife picture, the photo shows a soldier who had apparently been stabbed, seems like a very odd editorial decision. "
Source: Reuters
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