AFP reports that two Palestinian journalists were injured in yesterday’s IDF ambush of an Islamic Jihad crew preparing to fire a Qassam rocket. The following AP photo makes us wonder if the injured reporters were at the scene before the IDF made its presence known:
A Palestinian militant lies dead next to a homemade rocket prepared to be fired into Israel after he was killed by Israeli army gunfire in the town of Beit Lahiya in the northern Gaza Strip early Tuesday May 30, 2006. An Israel Air Force helicopter fired also a missile after the gunfight. At least three militants were killed and four other people were injured during the two attacks, Palestinian security and hospital officials said. (AP Photo/Hatem Moussa)
The media has a history of fuzzy ethics on dubious “photo-ops” (see past incidents in Gaza, the West Bank, as well as Iraq). Were the reporters on scene simply covering a firefight, or were they perhaps being used for terror photo-op that went awry?
