The journalists there knew it was coming, and much as it's sad that innocent lives are lost you'd have to admit that "TV" and "PRESS" signs on Gaza vehicles can't really offer the same level of protection they do elsewhere.
Palestinian gunmen who used a vehicle disguised as a television truck to assault an IDF position at the Kissufim crossing between Gaza and Israel on Saturday drew sharp condemnations from journalists who charged that the incident, the first of its kind, would make their jobs more dangerous than ever.
A jeep used by Islamic Jihad operatives to attack an the IDF position is seen clearly marked with "TV" and "Press" following the gunbattle on the border between Israel and Gaza.
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Slideshow: Pictures of the week Both the Foreign Press Association in Israel and the Palestinian Journalists Association have issued statements condemning the Gaza gunmen who used a vehicle with TV markings to facilitate access to the border so that they could launch an assault on military personnel stationed there.
In Saturday's attack, four gunmen drove a white jeep with press markings in English and Arabic up to the Gaza-Israel border, penetrated the border fence and assaulted a guard tower in what Islamic Jihad and the army said was a failed attempt to capture an Israeli soldier. IDF troops killed one gunman, while the others escaped.
The attackers, from Islamic Jihad and the Fatah movement of Palestinian Authority chairman Mahmoud Abbas, abandoned the jeep. AP photographs show a white armored vehicle of a type used by reporters, its windshield pocked by bullet holes, bearing red markings reading "TV" and "Press."
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