PRECISION ISRAELI BOMBING KILLS MORE PALESTINIAN CIVILIANS

When I wake up in the morning I turn on BBC or ITV for the news to find out what has happened over night or earlier that morning. Since the middle of last week BBC has been biased towards Israel in the current conflict with Lebanon. The BBC shows pictures from missiles as they fly towards their targets, or pictures from an aircraft showing the missile flying towards its target, and the missile blowing the target up. The targets were either a single building or a single truck, with nothing else nearby. The pictures give the impression of precision bombing.

So why this?

From http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/5193662.stm

Dozens die in fresh Lebanon raids

Israeli forces have been bombing targets in Lebanon for an eighth day, with at least 40 civilian deaths reported in the south and east.

Residents said an air strike killed 20 people in the southern village of Srifa, near Tyre. Police said at least 20 people died in other air raids.

Israel attacked Lebanon after Hezbollah fighters captured two soldiers in a cross-border raid last Wednesday.

At least 270 Lebanese - mostly civilians - have died in the conflict.

Twenty-five Israelis have died, including 13 civilians killed by Hezbollah rocket attacks.

One evening Newsnight showed the conflict from both sides. The view from Beirut showed a child almost dead with many pieces of shrapnel in her face and neck (presumably from precision bombing). The following morning that scene had been removed. Why?

So 270 Lebanese dead from precision bombing, with 25 Israelis dead from Katyushas. The precision bombing has killed over ten times the number of Israelis killed by the inaccurate Katyushas fired from a distance of 10's of Kms. And yet the BBC continues to portray the Israelis as operating a system of 'precision bombing' quoting Israeli officials expressing their desire to minimize civilian deaths.