Reporting the News A Bit Backwards

Here's a story from BBC News and my comments in italics:

Hamas barrage as Gaza under fire

This not a clear headline. What is Hamas barraging? Why? Were they responding to an Israeli initiative?

Israeli aircraft have fired missiles at targets in the northern Gaza Strip, injuring two Palestinian militants.

Seems like Israel initiated.

Militants fired rockets into Israel on Friday. One person in the town of Sderot was injured by shrapnel.

Oh. The Arabs started.

On Thursday, the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees said it had no more food to distribute in the Gaza Strip, because of the Israeli blockade.

That's bad behavior for Israel.

Israel says it will not re-open border crossings unless Palestinian militants stop firing rockets from Gaza. Militants say the mortar and rocket fire is their response to what they say is Israeli aggression against Gaza.

John Ging, of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (Unrwa), said on Thursday that handouts for 750,000 Gazans would have to be suspended until Saturday at the earliest, and called Gaza's economic situation "a disaster".

So, all the Arabs have to do is to stop firing Qassams and they'll be no humanitarain disaster.

On Wednesday, Israeli troops killed four Palestinian militants from the Hamas movement, which has controlled Gaza since it wrested power from the Fatah-dominated Palestinian Authority in June 2007. Witnesses said fighting broke out on the Gaza border after Israeli armoured vehicles crossed into the territory near Khan Younis.

Ah, so Israel did start.

The army said its soldiers were trying to stop militants plant a bomb near the security fence surrounding the strip.

Ooops. No, they were trying to stop terror. But maybe it's the "occupation" that's causing these "militants" to be militant?

Israel occupied Gaza in 1967, but pulled military forces and Jewish settlers out in the summer of 2005.

I guess not.

Access to the territory remains under the control of Israel's military, as does its airspace and territorial waters.

So, only Israel is responsible for the blockade?

Egypt controls the southern entrance to Gaza at Rafah, and goes along with the policy of isolating the Hamas movement, which Israel and its allies brand a terrorist group.

Oh, so Egypt, too, is a baddie.

The current round of clashes and rocket fire began on 5 November when Israeli troops entered Gaza to destroy what Israel said was a tunnel dug by militants to abduct its troops.

And look at that. Hamas started on Nov. 5.

A truce between the two sides declared on 19 June had largely held. Both sides have accused the other of violating the truce, but maintain that they remain committed to it.