Israeli settlers level Palestinian land west of Salfit

[Jefferson23]

NABLUS (Ma'an) -- Israeli settlers from the illegal settlement of Netafim leveled private Palestinian land near the central West Bank village of Qarawat Bani Hassan under guard of Israeli soldiers, witnesses told Ma'an Sunday.

The settlers intend to expand their settlement, which was founded in 1986 on Palestinian land from the villages of Qarawat Bani Hassan and Deir Istiya in the Salfit district, local researcher Khaled Maali told Ma'an.

Over 500,000 Israeli settlers live in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem in contravention of international law.

http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=738669

[Jefferson23]

1. Israeli forces raid Jerusalem hospital, detain Palestinian in ER

JERUSALEM (Ma'an) -- Israeli forces raided a hospital in East Jerusalem late Saturday and detained a young Palestinian man, witnesses told Ma'an.

Locals said Israeli forces searched the outer square of the al-Maqasid hospital in the al-Tur neighborhood before storming the hospital's emergency room and detaining a young man who was escorting an elderly woman.

The officers beat the young man "brutally" before taking him into custody, the sources told Ma'an.

The young Palestinian's name was not immediately made available.

The Palestinian news site Safa reported that Israeli forces claimed the man had hurled a Molotov cocktail at them and fled to the hospital.

The hospital administration denounced the Israeli raid which they described as a "barbarian attack" that violated the sanctity of the hospital.

http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=738639

[oberliner]

2. Horrid reporting from Ma'an here

Revisiting the Basics of Journalism:

1. Be accurate
2. Avoid biases
3. Present multiple viewpoints/perspectives

This article contains a photo that is unidentified. What is depicting? When is it from? Does it actually relate to the article or is it a generic image from an earlier time frame?

What private Palestinian land was leveled? A home? A business? What was destroyed?

Who were the witness? Why is there no name? Would no one go on record? Was any actual reporter from Ma'an present?

Any attempt to get a statement from the Israeli soldiers who were present? How about the owners of the land? Was this a surprise or had this been planned?

They just don't seem interested sometimes in even doing basic journalism over there.

It's frustrating because they are one of the only Palestinian news sources in English available online. I wish they would make an effort to raise the bar just a bit

[Jefferson23]

3. Hey, what do you want, they're Palestinians. n/t