Official PA news agency only mentions murdered teens in English version of news report, but leaves out murders in Arabic report
The following is the English language version of the official PA news agency WAFA's report. The Arabic paragraph that left out the mention of the murdered Israelis is inserted for comparison after its English equivalent, in italics and in brackets:
NEW YORK, July 1, 2014 (WAFA) -
"Permanent Observer of the State of Palestine to the United Nations, Ambassador Riyad Mansour, sent Tuesday identical letters to the UN Secretary-General, President of the UN Security Council (Russian Federation) and President of the General Assembly on the ongoing escalated Israeli aggression against the Palestinian people in West Bank and Gaza.
Mansour underscored that many Palestinians were either killed or injured during the Israeli bombardment of Gaza in the past two weeks, stressing that the escalation of Israeli aggression threatens to further destabilize the already fragile situation on the ground, pulling the region into more violence, which, he said, requires the attention of the international community, particularly the UN security council's attention, whose mission is to preserve international peace and security.
He said [that] as part of a collective punishment since the beginning of the Israeli military aggression in search of three allegedly abducted settlers, more than 575 Palestinians were arrested across the West Bank, while others were killed with Israeli live fire. (emphasis added by Palestinian Media Watch)
The following is the English translation of the above paragraph as WAFA reported it in Arabic. It does not mention the murdered Israeli teens at all:
["In addition, Ambassador Mansour wrote in his letter that Israel is escalating its military operations throughout the West Bank, in a deliberate attempt to stoke the tensions and conflicts on all fronts, which has led to the arrest of more than 575 residents and the deaths of several residents as Martyrs, as part of a policy of collective punishment."]
Meanwhile, Mansour expressed strong condemnation, on behalf of the Palestinian leadership, over Israel's military aggression and its collective punishment against the Palestinians, calling upon the international community and the UN Secretary Council to put an end to Israel's crimes and to hold it accountable.
He reiterated the urgency to promptly and completely lift the inhumane, illegal and immoral Israeli siege imposed on the Gaza Strip, stressing the need to ensure the protection of the Palestinian people who are under occupation, as well as to ensure respect for the law, including the fourth Geneva conventions."
On June 12, 2014, three Israeli teens, Eyal Yifrach, 19, Gilad Shaar, 16, and Naftali Frenkel, 16, were kidnapped while hitchhiking in the West Bank. Israel responded to the kidnapping by conducting house-to-house searches in Hebron and arresting hundreds of Hamas members. The boys' bodies were found by Israeli security forces near Hebron on June 30, 2014. They appeared to have been shot to death soon after the abduction.
NEW YORK, July 1, 2014 (WAFA) -
"Permanent Observer of the State of Palestine to the United Nations, Ambassador Riyad Mansour, sent Tuesday identical letters to the UN Secretary-General, President of the UN Security Council (Russian Federation) and President of the General Assembly on the ongoing escalated Israeli aggression against the Palestinian people in West Bank and Gaza.
Mansour underscored that many Palestinians were either killed or injured during the Israeli bombardment of Gaza in the past two weeks, stressing that the escalation of Israeli aggression threatens to further destabilize the already fragile situation on the ground, pulling the region into more violence, which, he said, requires the attention of the international community, particularly the UN security council's attention, whose mission is to preserve international peace and security.
He said [that] as part of a collective punishment since the beginning of the Israeli military aggression in search of three allegedly abducted settlers, more than 575 Palestinians were arrested across the West Bank, while others were killed with Israeli live fire. (emphasis added by Palestinian Media Watch)
The following is the English translation of the above paragraph as WAFA reported it in Arabic. It does not mention the murdered Israeli teens at all:
["In addition, Ambassador Mansour wrote in his letter that Israel is escalating its military operations throughout the West Bank, in a deliberate attempt to stoke the tensions and conflicts on all fronts, which has led to the arrest of more than 575 residents and the deaths of several residents as Martyrs, as part of a policy of collective punishment."]
Meanwhile, Mansour expressed strong condemnation, on behalf of the Palestinian leadership, over Israel's military aggression and its collective punishment against the Palestinians, calling upon the international community and the UN Secretary Council to put an end to Israel's crimes and to hold it accountable.
He reiterated the urgency to promptly and completely lift the inhumane, illegal and immoral Israeli siege imposed on the Gaza Strip, stressing the need to ensure the protection of the Palestinian people who are under occupation, as well as to ensure respect for the law, including the fourth Geneva conventions."
[WAFA, the official PA news agency, English website, July 1, 2014]
On June 12, 2014, three Israeli teens, Eyal Yifrach, 19, Gilad Shaar, 16, and Naftali Frenkel, 16, were kidnapped while hitchhiking in the West Bank. Israel responded to the kidnapping by conducting house-to-house searches in Hebron and arresting hundreds of Hamas members. The boys' bodies were found by Israeli security forces near Hebron on June 30, 2014. They appeared to have been shot to death soon after the abduction.
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