Foreign Ministry spokesman Emmanuel Nahshon over the weekend called out American news network CNN and Britain's BBC for what he called their biased coverage of Friday's flare-up on the Israel-Gaza Strip border.
IDF soldier Staff Sgt. Aviv Levi, 21, was killed Friday by Palestinian sniper fire near the border, becoming the first IDF fatality on the Gaza frontier since Operation Protective Edge in 2014.
The incident triggered a massive Israeli strike on terrorist positions in the coastal enclave. Hamas, the terrorist group that rules Gaza, agreed to a cease-fire later on Friday night.
Nahshon called out CNN for failing to inform its Twitter followers that an Israeli soldier was killed by Hamas fire, opting to report that the Israeli strike followed an attempt to breach the security fence.
"No @cnni!! You got it wrong and not for the first time – an Israeli soldier was killed by #Hamas and #IDF retaliated, protecting its country and citizens against murderous terrorists. By misrepresenting the facts you manipulate against #Israel! @cnni - STOP YOUR MANIPULATION!" he tweeted.
Nahshon also called out the BBC for failing to report that an Israeli soldier was killed by terrorist fire, reporting only that he was "shot."
He further retweeted a post by Omri Ceren, an adviser to Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), who also panned the BBC, writing, "Israeli soldier 'dies from gunshot' is how the BBC reports on a Hamas terrorist shooting and killing an Israeli soldier. This is the new version of headlines about terrorist car rammings that say Israelis 'hit by car.'"
