JERUSALEM (AP) — Leaders of the world’s biggest media organizations filed a protest with Israel’s prime minister Wednesday criticizing the government’s decision to ban journalists from entering the Gaza Strip for the last two weeks. The protest was the latest in a chorus of international criticism of Israel’s Gaza closure, tightened after a five-month truce began unraveling about two weeks ago in a flurry of Israeli airstrikes against militants and Palestinian rocket barrages targeting Israeli towns.—-Contact The Daily Reveille’s news staff at [email protected]
Global mdia executive protest Gaza press ban
By The Associated Press
November 19, 2008