Standards and corrections

Every story has a source

• Each post names who reported it first and links there, under “Reported from”. A post summarises that reporting in our own words; it does not copy it.
• Claims are attributed to whoever made them: a ministry, the army, a UN agency, a witness. Where accounts differ, as with the number of people displaced in Hebron, each figure is given with its source.
• Quotes are short, word for word, and named.

Photographs

• A photograph shows the place, the person or the thing a story is about, and its caption says what it is, where and when it was taken. A photo of a town is captioned as the town, never as the event.
• No photographs of the dead or the wounded.
• Where no honest photograph exists, the story runs with the dark screen and its dots instead.

What the dots mean

• Three dots in a row, moving: the story is still being written, and is followed live.
• Three dots settled over the letter: the story is posted.
• On a story page, the dots in the header light one by one as you read.

Live coverage

Live updates carry the time they were reported and the outlet that reported them. When a live story ends, its page says so and keeps the updates in order.

Corrections

A mistake is corrected in the story itself, and a note at its foot says what was changed and when. Send corrections through the contact page.

Times

All times are Jerusalem time.