8/26/2002 extra: Palestinian youth

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LGF reports that the Palestinian Journalists Union has put up a new rule for journalists in their region: it is now prohibited to take any pictures of Palestinian children carrying weapons or taking part in activities by militant groups. The blue text is from an Israeli newspaper:

Tawfik Abu Khousa, deputy chairman of the syndicate, said such pictures harmed the image of the Palestinian people and the credibility of Palestinian journalists.

"We have decided to forbid taking any footage of armed children, because we consider that as a clear violation of the rights of children and for negative effects these pictures have on the Palestinian people," he said.

In the statement issued by the syndicate it said footage of armed served "the interests of Israel and its propaganda against the Palestinian people."

Reporters were also banned from photographing masked men.

For a while I was posting any image of kids with guns that I found, but there were too many and it no longer made sense. Well now it does.



This demonstration was organized by Yasser Arafat’s Fatah movement, in support of Saddam Hussein.