Citizen Power

The Israeli government is turning into the very thing that they are supposedly fighting against. They are not just targeting civilians inside the Gaza strip in this war of aggression, they are also targeting the UN and reporters and even warehouses of food aid. They prevented foreign journalists from entering Gaza, and now they are seemingly trying to finish off the ones who are there! (The United States military did the same thing at the start of the Iraq war, killing foreign journalists and even seeming to target them.) When will someone stop the Israeli terrorism? It doesn’t matter if someone is using a suicide bomb or a high-tech plane dropping bombs, — killing people and terrorizing them with threat of harm or death in order to manipulate them politically is terrorism, and that’s what Israel is currently doing. In this case, it’s to completely control an entire 1.5 million people in the teriory of the Gaza strip. These are clearly people who will not be controlled. And ironically, it’s the media that is failing to point out that Hamas was democratically elected and should have been negotiated with, not attacked.

“Israeli military asked to explain how Gaza media building came to be hit by explosion

15 January 2009– Reporters Without Borders calls on the Israeli military to investigate and explain exactly how a 16-storey building in Gaza City that houses several news organisations including Reuters came to be hit by an explosion this morning.

An Abu Dhabi TV journalist and a Reuters cameraman were injured in the blast that shook the Al-Shurouq Tower. It was not immediately known whether the explosion was the result of a missile or a shell fired by a tank.

Reuters said an Israeli army spokesman contacted the news agency’s Jerusalem bureau shortly before the explosion to verify the location of its Gaza bureau. Reuters had informed the Israeli army of the exact location at the start of the war and was assured by the Israelis on several occasions that it would not be a target.

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