BBC Back to Old Tricks?

I haven't been media-watching as ferociously as I had been in the past but this caught my eye for two reasons:-

Israelis kill W Bank 'militant'

Muhammad Ahmedan was buried hours after the shooting

Israeli troops in the West Bank say they killed a Palestinian militant.

An Israeli army spokeswoman said troops had spotted an armed gunman in al-Ein camp near Nablus and opened fire.

First of all, the continued use of the term "militant" to describe an armed gunman.

Secondly, I severely doubt that Israeli troops would use the word "militant". That's putting words in someone's mouth. And that's not ethical.

If any BBC person is reading this, if you have a direct source for that use of "militant", can you let me know?

And if you keep reading the BBC story you'll find this:-

As they often do in Gaza, Israeli forces phoned the five houses beforehand to warn of the coming attacks.

An Israeli military spokeswoman said the militants' homes were hit because they were being used to store weapons and to hold "terrorist meetings".

The word "terrorist" is placed by the BBC in quotation marks but the word 'militant' is not.

They really can mix up their language, especially as they include the reason for the homes of the 'militants' to be targetted: weapons storehouses.

And even the nice, respectful behavior of warning before shooting passes unnoticed.