On September 16th the IDF announced that a rocket had been found the previous week in the village of Kfar Ni’ma, north-west of Ramallah. On September 19th footage was released of the launch of that rocket and on the same day, Israeli security forces announced the arrests of members of the terror squad responsible for the launch in the Ramallah area.
“The Israeli military said Friday it had caught a Palestinian terror cell in the Ramallah area of the West Bank that had been building rockets intended to be launched at Israeli targets. […]
Overnight, IDF soldiers, Shin Bet officers, and members of the police counter-terror Yamam unit reached a building in the area to detain members of the cell, the military said.
The IDF said the forces opened fire on the building, including with shoulder-launched missiles, and three suspects emerged who were then detained and handed over to the Shin Bet for questioning.
Inside the building, the military said troops found dozens of rocket parts, including two completed rockets that did not yet have a warhead. The soldiers also found dozens of explosive devices and explosive material, alongside other evidence tying the cell members to the efforts to build and launch rockets. […]
At another location in the Ramallah area, the military said soldiers found a lathe used to build the rocket parts.”
On the night of September 23rd, the IDF found an additional rocket near Tulkarem.
Although efforts to establish rocket cells in Judea and Samaria are not new and incidents of rocket fire from that area have taken place in the past, it was particularly notable that the BBC News website ignored those events completely, even though they became known during a week in which it published at least fifteen reports relating to the topic of recognition of a Palestinian state – including by the UK.
Even more remarkable is the fact that two of the BBC’s reports were filed from places under Palestinian Authority control: Jenin (where Hamas rocket production has taken place in the past) and Ramallah.