Family slaughtered- how did I miss this story??

[SickOnMyShoulder]

in the Daily Telegraph
How did I miss this?? A 3 month old baby and her siblings and parents murdered whilst sleeping in their home. Shocking. I don't care what your politics are, if you are human you will be disgusted.

Would not be surprised smallwhitecat, I have stopped using the BBC for news a long time ago, heavily biased on many subjects and seem to pick and choose what the viewers need to know rather than what is going on in the world. I hate their news coverage with a passion.

I read about it somewhere. Were they one of the new extremist settler families? It didn't say I don't think but I wondered if that was part of the back story in which case there might have been more reason to cover the story in more detail but if it was 'just' a particularly gruesome murder then I don't see why it was of particular interest to the UK. We seem to get rolling coverage of similar events in the US but that macarbre interest doesn't usually extend to the rest of the world.

I now feel obliged to add that I am horrified by the events and in no way condone the actions of whoever was responsible as I'm sure someone will now want to criticise me for being an unfeeling cow.

Incidentally and perhaps unrelated, but on the general topic of horrible muirders happening in other parts of the world, I was horrified by the lack of extensive coverage of the photos of the US Army 'hit squad' posing with photos of innocent dead teenagers in Afghanistan - those photos really upset me and I was surprised more news coverage didn't happen. perhaps that is the newspapers I read

The BBC did briefly cover it, but in terms of "look at these bastard settlers" rather than "family brutally murdered, found by their 12 year old sister".

I now pretty much don't bother with the BBC and other British media outlet's coverage of issues in this area, as they're inevitably innacurate and biased. It's too depressing

I don't care what someones religious or political beliefs are. Noone who does something like that deserves to be considered human.

"It was important to report on the settlements to put the murder in context"

wtf There are no excuses. NONE for committing such atrocities to children. There is no context

Not allowed to show Palestinians in a bad light, even if a few of their number are murderous nutters!

I think the fact that it wasn't mentioned shows that the BBC is actually unbiased. Why report a story from Israel - would they have reported it if it happened in China or Nigeria? No. It's a horrendous story clearly, but appalling attrocities happen all over the world and are not usually covered by our news unless thy are of world importance (eg Japan earthquake) or involve British nationals.

Just because we have a lot of Jewish people in this country it doesn't follow that the BBC has to cover stories about Israel, any more than they have to cover terrible murders in other parts of the world.

Sadly, I suspect the news would consist of nothing else if they did.

this was on the front page of BBC News today, so I think any major serial killing gets front page for the BBC Miss GB, wherever it is in the world, except apparently this one didn't. Makes you think. I don't agree with the Israel's settlement policy but it terrifies me how easy it is to cross that line from "I disagree with you" to "I disagree with you so you have no right to live", even applied to a tiny baby asleep in her parent's arms.

sorry bronze, who were you quoting then?

I found the story through the BBC site, the article the writer mentions- I regularly look through the world news region by region to find out what's going on. It was a story about using this case as justification for more building. I had to look elsewhere to find out about the story in detail. And this wasn't on the front page of the website. It was in the appropriate world region news section.

I even thought that I must have missed the initial stories about the case and that this must have been a follow up one. I looked for the links to the right showing the original story in more detail- none existed.

I love the BBC. This lack of coverage can't be anything other than deliberate. I'd really like an explanation.

Merci- from the Telegraph article in the op

The next morning, the BBC's public affairs team emailed me a response that amounted to a shrug. The story "featured prominently on our website", they said. It was important to report on the settlements to put the murder in context, they said.

The problem is that the murders happened on the 11th March at the exact same time as the Japanese quake and tsunami. BBC News (and Sky) just ran rolling news on Japan, to the exclusion of all else. The Jerusalem bombing a couple of days ago actually featured quite extensively on the BBC - 'only' one adult was killed, as opposed to an entire family, but it happened during a more normal news day.

I can't understand why someone would want to put their family in such danger and at such risk by volunteering to move to such an area.

"I can't understand why someone would want to put their family in such danger and at such risk by volunteering to move to such an area."

They think that they're doing God's work and building the land of Israel as they have been told to do.

There also seems to be a hint of an "end of days" mentality to the settlers who seem to be believing that they are preparing for their "real and final goals" and that "the end is very near".

OK, thanks for clarifying that, Badgers. I really had no idea. I try to shield my family from unecessary danger, but I can see, if it's a matter of faith, then having a diffferent perspective.

Expat, where can we go in the world to keep our kids away from danger? There have been terrorist attacks in nearly every large city in the world, including in airports and tube stops in the UK :(

"where can we go in the world to keep our kids away from danger"

The settlers in Israel are hardly just going to normal cities and airports.

They're living in settlements that are illegal under international law, they're surrounded by the people whose land they have taken and both sides have a history of violent attacks on each other.

They quite clearly decide to take their families somewhere dangerous, rather than taking their families somewhere "normal" that then becomes unexpectedly dangerous.

The settlers however do view the danger as being "necessary" if they are to do what their faith instructs them.

i have a friend who lives in gaza on a kibbutz. she weekly for months mentions the bombings she can hear on a daily basis. and all the while i am thinking, why the fuck are you living there? i can't understand it. she has twin teenage daughters and a ten year old son. her parents (christians who live in the uk) are too scared to go and visit her, as am i, i have been asked. i don't agree with her living there, think the whole thing is a mess,

I'm not surprised that this wasnt on the Beeb. In the context of what was going on at the time in the world, it wasnt 'news'. Whilst we were briefly in the US earlier this year, there were some shocking child murder and attempted murder cases being reported (and I mean really horrific). There has been no mention of any of them on the BBC.

Its nothing to do with political bias.

absolutely awful news, atrotious and your right. The politics of this is completely irrelevant BUT, palestinians ahve been murdered in cold blood. They do not recieve any lines in the national news. On youtube, tghere is an atrocious video of a army drill (israeli) which resulted in teh mother of teh family being shot dead. The children had to watch as the mtohers body was carried out. They were too shocked to cry. Are we to think or assume that atrocities like t his are so common against palestinians that its no use making a fuss about this on teh media??

what kibbutz is in Gazza? I wasn't aware of any - truly curious.