Palestinian Firebombers Exploit Journos as Human Shields

Here's a video of Palestinians chucking firebombs at Israeli soldiers while hiding behind reporters. It's not clear exactly where or…

Here’s a video of Palestinians chucking firebombs at Israeli soldiers while hiding behind reporters.

It’s not clear exactly where or when it was filmed, but The Commentator posted this on YouTube yesterday.

The Palestinians throwing the firebombs are clearly exploiting the reporters. You can call them “collateral damage waiting to happen.”

We all know who gets blamed if a foreign reporter covering a clash gets hurt.

Pesach Benson

A Baltimore native, Pesach was with HonestReporting from 2011 to 2020. He edited the Israel Daily News Stream and authored the e-book, Red Lines: HonestReporting’s 8 Categories of Media Bias. Before moving to Israel in 1995, he worked as a reporter for the Baltimore Jewish Times. Pesach has a B.A. in political science from the University of Maryland-Baltimore County, where he was executive editor of the campus newspaper.

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