Palestinian Killed in Gaza

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Israel kills Palestinian in Gaza

Saturday 21 February 2004, 15:18 Makka Time, 12:18 GMT

A Palestinian has been killed by the Israeli army near the security fence separating the Gaza Strip from Israel.

Usama Yusif al-Maghari, 33, was hit on Saturday in the chest in an area east of Al-Buraij refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip and died several hours later, Palestinian medical and security sources said on Saturday.

An army spokeswoman confirmed soldiers had fired on and hit a "suspect" Palestinian who was approaching the fence and was only metres away from it in a prohibited zone.

She was unable to say whether the man was armed.

Maghari's death brings to 3769 the number of people killed since the September 2000 outbreak of the Palestinian uprising, including 2826 Palestinians and 875 Israelis.

Cant you atleast give the man a warning?

More examples of the brutal Israeli occupation in Gaza.

She was unable to say whether the man was armed.

If he was, good riddance.


Now how about linking a source ot this article?

http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exe...D1BD79A7709.htm

Especially CNN i was disgusted by how they report the incidents about the Suicide Bombings and the attacks on the Palestinians.

Luke, I heard of that story with the little kid's arms blown off from CNN and MSNBC. They interviewed the hospital staff and after he got better, they did a special on him.

He was learning how to write with his feet. He had gifts outpouring from all nations including some from the US. They interviewed him and he was very angry that America would bomb his home he said. He was angry that they took away his parents. He said that he would forgive though, but he's young. Who knows how he'll feel after he grows older and the challenges he begins to face sets in.

Now sometimes the US media doesn't report on everything, but I believe the prejudices of the reporters creeps into their articles from time to time. Aljazeera is totally biased, and even though many times the US medias underplay events, Aljazeera and other Arab news agencies overplay them 10 times worse.

It's different to report on the war in your perspectives, but when you refer to suicide bombers and Palestinian terrorists as "freedom fighters" in your reports, there is no doubt left that it's biased. I've never seen a favorable report in any of their news articles for Israel.

I search around the web to find sites that I believe will simply report the events rather than report their perspectives. I even found an Arab news site that in my opinion, although they're clearly pro Palestinian (Arab solidarity), they tend to report things a little more level headed than many of these other sites like Aljazeera.

I remember when we first raided Iraq and took Baghdad. They were clearly against this particular war, not unlike many Americans here, but one thing they said in an article that gained some respect from me. They said that the Arab world needs to stand up and speak out against such a tyrant like Saddam. He goes on to stress how Arabs around the world supported Saddam despite the fact that Saddam was murdering thousands of Arabs & Muslims. They also said something about suicide bombers in a different article. They don't believe it's right and thinks its hurting not only themselves, but giving peace a chance.

Now don't get me wrong, they have some harsh words for the US & Israel. They are clearly pro Arab/Palestinian, but they do report with less rhetoric and extremist views like some of these other sites. I haven't been to that site in a while, but never upon reading it did I hear them call Palestinian terrorist "freedom fighters" though they do blast Israel from time to time referring to them as occupation forces.

I simply try to see the news for what it is and make a judgment. I don't believe in everything the medias here report, yes they can be biased, but in trying to prove how biased the west is, I believe Arab medias over compensate when reporting news about that area. I believe many of them are far worse in their bias than many of the western medias.

Seeing biased reporting is also in the eye of the beholder.
Watching and interpreting the media reports to gain an unbiased perspective is in itself flawed. Each of us is biased in our own way. We can both watch the same program and come away with completely different views. It's not just the media, it's how we interpret it with our own ability to rationalize what we see and campare it to what we think we know or believe.
Most is subject to our own morality and convictions.

There is a lot of work for humanity to make things better. It's not just us or them. It's everyone.

I totally agree with you USA, however when it comes down to inflamatory remarks, usually bias is easy to spot.

I think news agencies are responsible for a lot of sterio types. They wield great power, the power to persuade. When one has a cause, it takes little to persuade extremist to extremes.

I believe news agencies should report the news, not shape it. This should be done without interjecting opinion such as referring to violent groups as freedom fighters no matter how you view justice or injustice. This goes for all sides equally so.

Well you really cant say that Al'Jazeera is totaly biased, but yea just like a pro-israel web site, they will be biased sometimes, one reason that i like Al'Jazeera is because we get the arab channels here, and i would watch the Al'Jazeera channel and they sometimes interview Jews and ask them about the problem, and it seems to me that Al'Jazeera trys not to be just one sided. Im using a non Arab or Israeli source and yet Merkava claims that its biased ( BBC ), im not and never going to use CNN or accept them, im tired of their ****, and they can be so annoying, the way that they report things makes you go on the Israeli side, and i dont see Al'Jazeera do this, but many do think it does and they fail to show me how, but yea, its ok to say that it may be somewhat biased, since its pro-Palestinian.