Hamas gunmen destroyed Reuters footage of a Khan Yunis demonstration on Thursday, but you wouldn’t know it from the wire service. Fortunately, the Palestinian Center for Human Rights is more concerned about Reuters’ freedom than Reuters itself:
The demonstration then moved towards Khan Yunis refugee camp. Some the demonstrators stopped on the way to the camp in order for factions to present their statements. However, the majority of the demonstrators moved towards the refugee camp. They stopped near the house of Mustafa al-Satari, a member of Fatah movement, opposite to Nasser Hospital, who died from a disease. A number of boys threw stones at members of the Executive Force guarding the hospital and said slogans against Hamas. Members of the Executive Force fired into the air, and enforcements were brought to the area. Members of the Executive Force chased and dispersed the demonstrators. No casualties were reported.
Member of the Executive Force detained 3 journalists who were covering the demonstration and forced them to delete video footages and photographs from their cameras. The journalists are:
1) Rami Hasan Abu Shammala, a cameraman of Ramattan;
2) Ibrahim Abu Mustafa, a Reuters reporter; and
3) Bassam Mas’oud, a Reuters reported.One of the journalists told PCHR that members of the Executive Force took them to the office of the force inside the hospital and forced them to delete video footages that showed members of the force fining into the air to disperse the demonstrations. They also warned and the threatened the journalists not to publish any of those footages.
We’re hardly surprised Reuters didn’t report its own intimidation. After all, the comment that best sums up the MSM’s moral ambiguities, “one man’s terrorist is another man’s freedom fighter,” was expressed by their very own Stephen Jukes.
(Hat tip: Elder of Ziyon)
