15 August 2008
Amnesty International has described as scandalous the Israeli army's account of firing a tank shell that killed Reuters cameraman Fadel Shana as a "sound" decision. The army reached the conclusion as part of a so-called investigation into the killing of the journalist and three other unarmed ( Read more... )

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In the Israeli military, injuring a handcuffed Palestinian is 'conduct unbecoming' a soldier -- but less so than tying cardboard wings to an antenna.

By Etgar Keret

August 13, 2008

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What did Israel know about 911?

It's all Reuters fault! They even admit it! Never mind Reuters was taken over after 9/11 by Thomson Corporation .

On his father’s passing, Kenneth Thomson assumed the hereditary title, Baron Thomson of Fleet, and succeeded his father as chair of what was then a media empire made up of extensive newspaper and ( Read more... )

Pentagon: Shooting of Reuters journalist in Iraq justified

By LOLITA C. BALDOR - 53 minutes ago

WASHINGTON (AP) - The 2005 shooting death of a Reuters journalist in the midst of a firefight in Baghdad was justified because U.S. soldiers believed the camera protruding from an unmarked car was a rocket propelled grenade, the Pentagon's internal ( Read more... )

Army probe of Reuters death tainted - US inspector
16 Jun 2008 22:07:35 GMT
Source: Reuters
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By Kristin Roberts

WASHINGTON, June 16 (Reuters) - U.S. soldiers who killed a Reuters journalist in Iraq acted within military rules, but the Army's probe of the incident was tainted by its failure to preserve evidence, a Pentagon ( Read more... )

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Journalists Protest Israeli Actions in Gaza

Journalists Campaign for Answers After April Killing of Reuters Cameraman by Israel Defense Forces

By SARA SORCHER

JERUSALEM, June 16, 2008 -

Journalists in the Gaza Strip symbolically and literally laid down their cameras Monday, refusing to cover any Israel Defense Forces military operations taking ( Read more... )

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Israel sanctions construction of 40,000 housing units in occupied Jerusalem
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Added: June 15, 2008

This documentary on the deliberate killing and intimidation of journalists in conflict zones, examines how international reporters became targets.

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Reuters demands explanation from Israel for death of cameramen

In the fourth of five films from Gaza, multimedia reporter Clancy Chassay meets Samir who lost his brother and two footballing friends during Israeli rocket and shell attacks on their playing fields

Clancy Chassay

guardian.co.uk,
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