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Issam Tilawi 'serious violation'
Harrie van Dam - 27.09.2002 01:09
RWB: Israeli killing of reporter 'serious violation' of Geneva Conventions.
Reporters group criticizes Israel for the death of Palestinian journalist.
The Israeli military said Thursday that a Palestinian reporter shot and killed several days earlier in the West Bank town of Ramallah was among the demonstrators who clashed with soldiers, breaking a military curfew.
The international watchdog group Reporters Without Borders charged that Israel might have been in "serious violation" of international law over the death of Issam Tilawi Saturday night. The group said he was apparently shot by an Israeli army sniper.
Tilawi, a reporter for Palestinian Radio, was wearing a jacket marked "Press" when he was shot in the head while covering a demonstration in the center of Ramallah on Sept. 21, the group said in a statement. Reporters Without Borders works to protect journalists.
"Israeli army troops benefit from a feeling of almost total immunity," wrote Reporters Without Borders secretary general Robert Menard in a letter to Israeli Defense Minister Binyamin Ben-Eliezer. "Meanwhile, Palestinian journalists risk their lives every day by doing their job with very little proper equipment."
The organization said the killing appeared to be a "serious violation" of the Geneva Conventions, governing rule over occupied territories.
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| supplements | | | ha ha ha | John Veldhuis - 27.09.2002 11:44
"We remind the Israeli army that, like all the world's armies, it is bound by the Geneva Conventions to protect civilians, which include journalists."
Ja, dat helpt bij een leger, dat, elke keer als het de llegaal bezette gebieden binnentrekt, toegesproken wordt met "als het even kan geen oorlogsmisdaden plegen alsjeblieft, of je moet het stiekem doen"...
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