UK Media Still With "Militants"

Reporting the murder near Moshav Mata is The Independent:-

Suspicion for the attack appeared to fall on Arab militants. Micky Rosenfeld, a police spokesman, said it was probably a "terrorist attack" given the way in which the two women were tied up and stabbed. "The main line that we're looking at is that it's a nationalistically-motivated attack, but we haven't ruled out possible criminal motives," Mr Rosenfeld said.

And there's this clean-up:

Civil rights groups cautioned police against reaching hasty conclusions that the attacks were carried out by militants, warning it could prompt renewed antagonism towards Israel's Arab Palestinians with Israeli citizenship. "The police have a civic responsibility not to jump to conclusions, especially now when we are witnessing a very strong wave of racism towards Arabs in Israel," said Hasan Jabareen, executive director of the Arab Israeli organisation Adalah.

The Guardian goes one better, writing as if the Police spokesperson used the temr 'militants':

It was unclear whether the assault was a politically-motivated attack by Palestinian militants or whether it was a random criminal offence, said Micky Rosenfeld, police spokesman. "We are looking into the incident. There are different possibilities, including the possibility of a terror attack," Rosenfeld said. "There are no clear conclusions at the moment." The assault has not been claimed by any armed group.

This, though, is a militant position:-

Hamas, the Islamist movement ruling the Gaza strip, has asked the United Nations to stop exposing Palestinian children to the Holocaust during trips organised for outstanding students from Gaza, and instead concentrate on Palestinian victims.

"The UNRWA [the agency for Palestinian refugees] has to stop the visits they do, where they teach the Holocaust and where they promote solidarity with Jewish suffering created by the Nazis," said a statement from the department for refugee issues. Hamas also said that "the minds of the children are not big enough to understand the suffering of all the victims around the world", adding that "the Palestinian suffering caused by the Jewish occupiers is enough of an example".

The Telegraph avoided the issue:-

Micky Rosenfeld, a police spokesman, said the brutal nature of the attack suggested that the perpetrators could have been terrorists but added that investigators had not ruled out criminal motives. According to Miss Wilson, the two Arab men stopped them in the woods and asked for water, which neither woman had

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But did not shy away from identifying the ethnic origin of the suspected perpetrators.

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