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Indymedia Journalists Shot at in Deheishe
by gkd
Wednesday Apr 3rd, 2002 5:51 AM
1545 3 April 2002: Indymedia journalists shot at in Ibdaa Social Center, Deheishe, Bethlehem
1545 Ibdaa Social Center, Deheishe:
A Dutch corporate media journalist with a clearly-recognizable television camera has been filming out of the top floor of Ibdaa for about 2 hours, along with Indymedia videographers and Indymedia photographers. We had been filming children playing and APCs/tanks rolling down Hebron Road.

Suddenly, we heard several sharp cracks and bullets came flying at us -- at least two of them through the wall. Electricity to the room was stopped and we could feel water dripping on us from above. We all hit the floor and stayed there for about 5 minutes. We then crept downstairs. It seems there will be no more journalism taking place from this excellent vantage point, at least not for a few hours.
by chp
Wednesday Apr 3rd, 2002 10:59 AM
I flipped on CNN and a 'Sean Riordan' of 'Independent Media' is being allowed on the air for several minutes. He's describing how the people near the Church of Nativity in Bethlehem who are in the International Solidarity movement are being evacuated because it's getting pretty bad. A group of indep. journalists surrounding him in whichever location he's in are still there though. They let him speak freely for awhile, but the interviewer has started to interrupt him with her personal editorial comments saying that 'there are two sides to every story and both sides are suffering' and that palestinian gunmen are in the church, and that they are part of a war. They have dramatic film of tanks going down narrow streets crunching cars. The way she's carrying out the interview is inappropriate in my opinion.
on MSNBC, which like CNN, was getting kicked out of Israel by the IDF, one of the reporters was actually being surprisingly harsh on a gov't official, accusing him of censorship.