"A missile just hit a car driving behind the car NYT fixer was in in #Gaza."

[WilliamPitt]

"A missile just hit a car driving behind the car NYT fixer was in in #Gaza. Driver of targeted car was killed, our people OK. TOO CLOSE."

https://twitter.com/rudoren/status/270921897791864832

[geomon666]

1. When did it become ok to kill journalists?

Just wondering here.

[malaise]

2. Just don't kill Western journalists

[glacierbay]

3. Was it a Journalist?

I'm reading it as the car behind the car carrying the journalists.

[COLGATE4]

4. Don't let little things like facts

get in the way of a good old-fashioned bash Israel thread.

[Taverner]

10. Wait, you forgot to call someone an anti-semite...

I know that's coming up soon...

[COLGATE4]

20. If the shoe fits...

[Taverner]

21. Yeah, because if you don't march Lock-Step behind the IDF and Likud...then you must be!

[geomon666]

5. The tweets say cameramen were killed

And the car was marked as a TV crew.

[glacierbay]

6. Ok

that I didn't know.

[WinkyDink]

7. At least since 2003: Two cameramen killed as US shell hits hotel

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/1427056/Two-cameramen-killed-as-US-shell-hits-hotel.html

By Adrien Jaulmes in Baghdad
12:01AM BST 09 Apr 2003
An American tank fired a single round into the 15th floor of a hotel packed with foreign journalists yesterday, killing two cameramen.

Facing intense criticism, the Pentagon said snipers had been firing on troops from the Hotel Palestine. But journalists said they had not heard any gunshots.

[geomon666]

8. Yeah I remember that lie about the snipers in the hotel. n/t

[WinkyDink]

19. Bush/Cheney/Rummy simply wanted to kill the press there.

[nadinbrzezinski]

9. Actually I should know better

Deleting the other two posts

[Taverner]

11. But it appears as if the IDF is targeting journalists

And then calling them terrorists after they die...

[Taverner]

13. The IDF targeted the Russia Today and Al Jazerra news ops

no strategic value to the buildings, but the IDF blew them up anyway

[dixiegrrrrl]

15. Death apparently has magical qualities

what before was a wedding party or a family of 12 in a mud walled hut or a roomful of journalists or a school of children or a hospital of patients become
"militants" after they are bombed.
Not just limited to American drone attacks, I should point out. God knows there are too many examples from Bosnia to Libya to Iraq to Syria, etc etc etc etc ad nauseum.

[Taverner]

16. Yep. Pretty much.

[librechik]

17. a missile landing in Gaza? do you mean it was fired by Israelis? UPDATE

yes, it was, and 2 Palestinian cameramen were killed.

[JoDog]

18. I wonder if

these were some of the folks who Hamas prevented from leaving Gaza last week.