REUTERS BIAS BY OMISSION

Bias by Omission
Reuters omitted some important information from its report on an Israeli missile strike on Gaza. Here is the entire Reuters report:

GAZA (Reuters) - An Israeli helicopter fired a missile into a Palestinian refugee camp in Gaza early on Saturday, killing an elderly civilian man and wounding at least three people, witnesses and medics said.

They said the missile crashed near a mosque in Khan Younis camp and that Israeli armored forces were gathering on the edge of the large urban camp, a Palestinian militant stronghold, in the southern Gaza Strip.

Khan Younis's hospital director told Reuters that a man of about 60 was killed by the missile and and three people he said were also civilians were wounded by flying shrapnel. An Israeli army spokesman said the report was being checked and had no further information for the moment.

The reported air strike followed a mortar attack by Palestinian militants on the nearby Jewish settlement of Neve Dekalim Friday that killed a 24-year-old woman.

The Islamist militant group Hamas said it had targeted Neve Dekalim, a day after three Palestinian gunmen killed three soldiers on the fringes of another settlement to the south.

The Ha'aretz report includes this key piece of information missing from the Reuters report:

The Israel Defense Forces said the air strike was aimed at four men about to launch a rocket or rocket-propelled grenade into a Jewish settlement, and that at least two of those involved in the launch were hit.

Even the BBC report, filed at the same time as the Reuters report, got this much right:

The Israeli army said its strike targeted Palestinian militants ... The Israeli army said it had targeted a group of militants preparing to fire a rocket into the Jewish settlement.