Reuter's Body Counts
Arutz 7 News
June 29 2001

    Katia Veintraub, 27, of the northern Shomron town of Ganim, will be buried in the Afula cemetery this afternoon. She was shot and killed by Palestinian terrorists at a junction near her home yesterday; her 4-year-old son, who was also in the car, was not hurt. Another woman from Ganim, traveling in a separate car nearby in accordance with army instructions to travel in pairs, was also shot; she is listed in moderate condition. The two vehicles were at the entrance to the local bypass road intended to provide Israeli motorists a safe travel route, but which has now become almost a "sure shot" for terrorists who realize that most cars traveling there are of Jews...

    The Reuters news agency took advantage of the murder to report that it "brought the toll to seven Israelis and eight Palestinians killed since the ceasefire took effect on June 13." Media expert Yisrael Medad notes that Reuters thus did not distinguish between those who were killed while engaged in life-threatening activity against Israeli soldiers, and the Israelis who were all murdered in cold blood while either driving to and from home or while offering help to an Arab they believed to be in distress.

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