As a journalist, Emad’s daily work is to write the reports of airstrikes, of killings and arrests. Over the years he has also been at odds with the Palestinian Authority and recently with the Hamas government, keeping the Maan office running through a combination of political savvy and sheer tenacity.
Like other journalists, Emad will continue his reporting throughout the current escalation. When a ceasefire is eventually achieved, and the international press, who converged on Gaza this weekend, have vacated, it is he and the other Palestinian reporters and photographers who will remain. Sunday’s airstrikes were another reminder that it is local journalists (Iraqis, Syrians, Palestinians) who face the greatest risk of injury or death.
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At least one of the two buildings held a command post, which fully justifies Israel's targeting of the building. A military facility does not become immune to attack when civilians happen to walk into it.
http://www.thecommentator.com/article/2085/islamic_jihad_proves_israel_right_in_targeting_media_facility
#1 Posted by Tang, CJR on Mon 19 Nov 2012 at 11:25 AM
*laughing* That site is so blatantly Zionist that the article refutes itself.
#2 Posted by Daniel Xavier, CJR on Mon 19 Nov 2012 at 12:44 PM
Couple of things .... ANYONE in a combat zone knowingly takes the risk of buying the farm. Just because you are a reporter doesnt give you some magical shield or righteous energy to protect you from bullets.
With that said, you neglected to mention that a top Islamic Jihad member was killed. (what was he doing there?)
Monday’s strike in downtown Gaza City was part of a widening 6-day-old offensive meant to quell Hamas rocket fire. It’s the second strike on the building in two days. The Hamas TV station, Al Aqsa, is located on the top floor. Islamic Jihad has sent a text message to reporters saying that Ramez Harb was killed in the strike Monday. Harb is a leading figure in their militant wing, the Al Quds Brigades.
http://news.nationalpost.com/2012/11/19/israeli-airstrike-on-gaza-media-centre-kills-top-terror-leader/
You lay with dogs you get fleas ... or in this case a hellfire missile.
#3 Posted by Mike H, CJR on Mon 19 Nov 2012 at 10:21 PM
I hope the ruthless killing of Israel comes to end.The truth cannot be suppressed no matter what.We should condemn this before Israel kills more civilians and people who are reporting these casualities.
#4 Posted by sara, CJR on Mon 19 Nov 2012 at 11:29 PM
It seems tome that an honest accounting of the safety of journalists in this conflict would also fault Hamas leadership for stationing combat leaders in a media building. But Maisin doesn't even mention Ramez Harb, so I think any aspirations toward honesty have to be discarded.
#5 Posted by Tom T., CJR on Tue 20 Nov 2012 at 08:34 AM
How convenient for the Israeli lie machine, aka MSM, that any Palestinian in Gaza can plausibly be called a "Hamas militant." Makes it easy to "justify" the bombing of all those mosques/churches/hospitals/schools/power plants, because they were "under Hamas control" or "harboring Hamas militants."
This is no "war" and no "conflict." This is a massacre just like all the Zionist attacks on Palestinians over the past 80 years. The anti-Semitic Zionist state of Israel and its wicked apologists can disappear from this earth and no patriotic American and no self-loving Jew would be worse for wear; quite the opposite in fact.
#6 Posted by Ethical Self-loving Jew, CJR on Tue 20 Nov 2012 at 04:11 PM