Let’s take a look at the Ynet and AP versions of the same incident:
AP:
Assailants fired on the car of a senior Palestinian security official Saturday, wounding him, a bodyguard and a girl in intensifying factional fighting in the Gaza Strip.
[five paragraphs on the current situation and facts about the start of the war between Fatah and Hamas]
Jarbouh was in critical condition. His bodyguard and the girl, a bystander, suffered moderate wounds.
In all, 17 people have been killed and scores wounded in factional fighting, including heavy gun battles in densely populated neighborhoods, since the ambush on the young children.
[Rest of story is about Abbas, Olmert, and Israel]
Ynet:
A senior member of the Palestinian Preventive Security Service (PPSS), Colonel Hassan Jarbouh, 33, was critically injured Saturday morning by gunshots fired at his car in the southern Gaza Strip town of Gaza.
Jarbouh’s bodyguard and a girl were also wounded in the incident, medical sources in the Strip reported.
The girl, 9-year-old Amal Jaber, and the 20-year-old bodyguard Ahmed Mansour, were lightly injured.
At this stage, no organization has claimed responsibility for the attack, which appears to be another incident on the backdrop of the growing tensions between Fatah and Hamas.
Earlier, Palestinians reported of exchanges of fire erupting near the office of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in Gaza City.
On Friday, a Palestinian civilian was critically injured in exchanges of fire between Fatah and Hamas operatives in Nablus. The Palestinian reported that Fatah members fired at approximately 200 Hamas activists and gunmen engaged in organizing a movement rally.
Quartet extends financial aid mechanism
A Palestinian civilian was killed Thursday, and Palestinian Foreign Minister Mahmoud al-Zahar’s bodyguard was kidnapped in exchanges of fire in the Gaza City neighborhood of Sabra.
[Rest of article is about fighting; last two paragraphs about Quartet funding for pals]
What a difference, huh? Why, it’s almost as if the AP downplays anything that might put the palestinians in a bad light, and pushes the pertinent facts so far down into the story that readers of your average local paper’s international section will never know that a nine-year-old girl was shot by palestinian terrorists during their current fighting.
Oh, wait. That’s exactly their purpose. My bad. I was expecting actual, unbiased news reporting from an organization that claims that is exactly what it does.