Last weekend marked 29 years since the first Iraqi missile attack on Israel during the Gulf War of 1991.
A review of available BBC online content relating to those five and a half weeks of attacks shows that anyone searching today for information on those events will find only minimal references to the topic.
The timeline in the BBC’s profile of Israel reads:
“1991 January – Gulf War. Iraq fires 39 Scud missiles at Israel in failed attempt to regionalise conflict. Israel refrains from responding at US request.”
An entry for January 18th 1991 in the BBC’s ‘On This Day’ archive titled “Iraqi Scud missiles hit Israel” states:
“Iraq has attacked two Israeli cities with Scud missiles, prompting fears that Israel may be drawn into the Gulf War.
Israel’s largest city, Tel Aviv, and Haifa, its main seaport, were hit in the attacks, which began at…
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