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It seems it is not just the occupied poeple of Gaza who risk their lives, the media journalists whose reports are vital are being killed.

"Fadel Shana and eight other Palestinian civilians, mostly children, were killed by a shell packed with darts in April. "

"The CPJ says at least eight journalists have been killed in the West Bank and Gaza since 2001, seven of them were killed in attacks by Israeli army."

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Irsael seems hell bent on keeping its human rights abuses and crimes against humanity hidden.

//If you get in between two warring parties, there is a chance you will get hurt//

It appears that the Israelis were very precipitate in their attack :-

""The army itself admits that they could not tell whether they were looking at a camera on a tripod or an anti-tank missile system on a tripod," Reuters Jerusalem bureau chief Alistair Macdonald told the BBC.

Although there is no record of Palestinian militants using such a system before, Mr Macdonald says, the tank used "devastating force with a weapon that is designed to kill as many people as possible" in a wide area.

In the previous half-hour Shana's car, marked with TV and Press stickers, had driven within 700 metres of the tanks, Mr Macdonald said."

anyone tell us how many journalists have been killed by Palestininas and how many have had death threats and broken limbs because some Palestinians didn't like what they reported?

How many of the perpetrators of these crimes and intimidations have been jailed or even called to answer charges.

You go into a "war" then expect anything.
Reporters have been maimed,killed etc in Iraq, Afghanistan even an Israeli reporter has been seriously injured in Georgia. (that should please you!).
So, maybe I understand you will bring up anything anti-Israeli or American.
However we are not all stupid as to think this is an isolated incidence among journalists.

////In the previous half-hour Shana's car, marked with TV and Press stickers, had driven within 700 metres of the tanks, Mr Macdonald said."//////

"Great logic. A quote that destroys the assertions"

It would not have taken great deal of logic to work out that the tripod was a journalist's camera tripod.The Israelis should have made some effort to find out instead of firing without warning and killing so many innocents.

A few years ago a civilian was shot in the UK for carrying a chair leg that the police thought was a gun.

Mistakes happen. This journalist put himself into a war zone.

Now explain this:- "Why are people SOoooooo interested in the Journalist when Palestinians were killed in this incident.

Is the journalists life more relevant than civilians???

Not to mention a Brazillian engineer on his way to work on a London tube shot 8 times at close range by Londons top policemen

Anyone on this thread that cannot accept the findings of the Israeli Army is welcome to write the word 'Press' on a board and then pace out 700 metres and see if you can make out more than bare shapes. If you pace it out at 1 metre per second it will take you nearly twelve minutes to get there.And even if you went to Specsavers you will still not be able to make out more than shapes.

Ah -- I hear someone cry. "Why did they not use binoculars ?".

The answer to that is that they were in a combat zone. Remember that pak4life has confirmed for us that Israeli soldiers had been killed. In war zones by the time someone has fired at you , you have half a second left. No time to pick up binoculars and try to establish anything.Because if you did try to do that you would be dead.

I have a sneaky suspicion that this is the eventuality that some on this thread would have preferred to have been visited upon the Israeli tank crew.


I have every sympathy with the journalist who was killed but the media must establish better communication with the military and NEVER point pointy things at soldiers.They are trained to react instantly and nothing can untrain this instinct out of them.

IMO journalists are S.O.T.E.

////Since when does "unable" mean "positive"?////


When "disassociation" means "articulation"?

My guess is that your question is one of those IQ test type conundrums.

Am I right?

Otherwise I am lost in trying to make sense of your question.