Journalists slam use of 'press vehicle' by Gaza militants

0 Comments | AFP, June, 2007

GAZA CITY (AFP) — The Palestinian journalists' union on Sunday slammed militants for using a jeep that allegedly had press insignia on it during a cross-border raid into Israel.

In the first such operation in nearly a year, Gaza-based militants drove a jeep to the border fence between the coastal strip and Israel, breached it and attacked an army post on the other side. The post was unmanned at the time.

A militant was killed in exchanges of fire with troops sent to the scene, in the operation carried out by the radical Islamic Jihad and Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, loosely linked to Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas's Fatah party.

The Israeli army, which did not report any injuries, said the white jeep used in the raid was plastered with "TV" and "Press"...