The IDF just bombed a media center used by international media

[Lars77]

http://www.fpa.org.il/?categoryId=73840

The Foreign Press Association is concerned at the attacks by the Israeli IDF on buildings housing journalists in Gaza last night.

The IDF stated this morning that “The sites that we targeted overnight were all positively identified by precise intelligence over the course of months.”

One building houses or has been used by the following FPA members: British news organisations Sky News, and Sky News Arabia, MBC TV ,Al Arabiya, ORF and other European broadcasters.

The other one the Shawa Husseiri building house: ARD TV. Eight journalists working for various organizations were injured.

[1monster]

1. Hasn't this sort of thing happened before? Seems Israel doesn't want any

news not filtered by them to get out...

[R. Daneel Olivaw]

23. Dead Palestinians can be ignored when there is no media

to report it, but dead journalists? Bad idea.

[oberliner]

30. Yes, everyone sure is ignoring the deaths of Palestinians

Almost no coverage at all compared to say the hundreds who have been killed in Sudan this year.

[R. Daneel Olivaw]

31. That's a good foot soldier.

Try and change the narrative away from the painful truth.

[DollarBillHines]

26. Yep. Remember when we killed the al-Jazeera reporters in their hotel room?

Our tanks shelled the very room they were in.

I think we also pegged a few on rooftops.

[teddy51]

2. Now thats defence at it, s best, keep up the great work IDF.

[kayecy]

3. Killing innocents with impunity.

18.00HRS GMT. The BBC reports Gaza deaths now 67

"At least 21 people are reported to have been killed in Gaza by Israeli bombardments so far on Sunday. Of the total, at least nine were children and at least four were women, Gaza health officials said."


Neither Europe nor the USA appear to be concerned that on the edge of Europe there is a western democracy killing innocents with impunity.

[Egalitarian Thug]

4. Israeli SOP. One of the most important objectives is to control perception.

They have murdered third-party observers and reporters for decades with impunity.

[leftyohiolib]

5. what was the name of that us ship isreal attacked and about which nothing was done

[Lars77]

6. It was called the Mavi Marmara, it was a Turkish ship. A good friend of mine was on board.

One of the people on board was an American citizen, his name was Furkan Doğan and he was 18 years old.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/jun/04/gaza-flotilla-attack-autopsy-results

Dogan was murdered with a shot in the back of the head execution style while lying face down on deck, after already being shot.



If an arab nation boarded a vessel in international waters and executed an American citizen, i am sure the US government would be fine with that too.

[leftyohiolib]

9. thanks memory foggy on that incident thought it was an u.s. ship

[oberliner]

12. That poster has it wrong

You are thinking of the USS Liberty.

[DollarBillHines]

27. That one saw the bottom of the rug, straight-away.

The USS Liberty debacle should have been addressed, not run away from.

[oberliner]

11. That's not what the poster is talking about

Nice try though.

[Lars77]

15. I didn't think about the US liberty, you're right. What do you supposed i tried though?

As i said, a good friend of mine was on the Mavi Marmara. Of course i thought of that.

[oberliner]

16. You tried to guess what he meant

But you made a mistake. I'm sorry you lost a friend on the Mavi Marmara.

[Lars77]

18. Fair enough. Just to clearify, my friend was ok. He had an interesting experience in an israeli jail

He is a white Norwegian guy, atheist. He was basically on the ship because he puts his money where is mouth is, he is a hardcore humanitarian.

In the jail, the israelis could not understand why he was there and spent about two days accusing him of having secretly converted to Islam, that was the only fathomable reason for him wanting to deliver school books and pencils to Gaza.

One of the guards got to know him a bit and told him he thought Norway was a nice country and that he would like to move there. But he said he probably couldn't. When my friend asked why, he said because he would probably be killed as a Jew in Norway.

That made me realise to what level some people are brainwashed on both sides.

[oberliner]

22. Thanks for sharing that

Very interesting!

[leveymg]

10. USS Liberty, a USN electronic surveillance ship shot up during the '67 War.

[Lars77]

7. There is a facebook page one can follow for images from inside Gaza

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Team-Palestina/198580813517826?ref=stream


I'm sure some of our fellow DU'ers will point out that it's totally biased and awful but basically this is a photo/video stream coming out of Gaza so obviously that's what is on there.

If anyone has a similar page for Israeli victims feel free to post it here, im not even kidding.

[leveymg]

8. If it emits electronic signals, IDF treats it as a target. Shoot first, ID the target later. Or,

maybe they IDed the target first . . .

[oberliner]

13. Right

It's amazing that anyone is left alive in Gaza after these indiscriminate attacks what with it being so densely populated and all.

[Lars77]

14. IDF confirmed they knew foreign journalists were there

"The Israeli military confirmed to the BBC that it knew foreign journalists were in at least one of the two media buildings it struck in Gaza, but said they were not the target."

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-20383001

[leveymg]

20. Reminds me of the US "targeting mistake" in Baghdad at the Palestine Hotel in April '03.

[azurnoir]

17. hmmmm we had this thread yesterday

http://www.democraticunderground.com/113421607

[Lars77]

19. I don't actually doubt Hamas would do that, but the source is bogus.

[oberliner]

24. The source is the Israeli government

You consider them bogus?

[Lars77]

25. Hardly unbiased. Do you trust Hamas as a source?

[oberliner]

28. I trust the Palestinian Authority government

That would be the equivalent in this case.

Hamas would be the equivalent of, say, Kach or Kahane Chai.

[bemildred]

21. LOL. A little encouragement for those reluctant to leave. nt

[Cicada]

29. We bombed Al-jazeerah in Baghdad, Israel figured it could too

We silenced unwanted press in Baghdad by blowing up Al-jazeerah, killing two. So Israel knows it can murder journalists too and get away with it.

[harmonicon]

32. That's the spirit!

It can't be covered if you kill everyone who could cover it.

[Ken Burch]

33. Inexcusable.

No possible justification for this can be made.

Journalists are just journalists, for God's sake.

[ProgressiveProfessor]

34. Per the AP, the head of Islamic Jihad was killed in that strike

At this point whether it was yet another case of human shield tactics is unknown.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1014310544