The Daily Life of Kawther Salam

   ..: Background on the IDF Spokesperson's Lies :..
 
November 21, 2002

The IDF soldiers are professional killers, they are used to kill, and statements, sometimes spreading false rumors but always justifying these killings, used to be released by the IDF spokesperson after the killing, and sometimes even before the killing itself.

All the journalists working in the West Bank and Gaza Strip know that the IDF spokesperson is a big liar ... in such a position the IDF spokesperson themselves were involved in the killings.

Mr. John Hook, from the UNRWA's Jenin project was killed by an IDF soldier on Friday while he was trying to evacuate staff from the small UN compound.

The IDF spokesperson claimed that gunmen were shooting from inside the compound. The witnesses said: "Hundreds of Palestinians were throwing stones at the occupational soldiers, who then returned fire everywhere."

On March 13, 2002, the IDF soldiers killed Italian Photojournalist Raffaele Ciriello and wounded French journalist Amadeo Ricucci in the city of Ramallah in the West Bank.

Ameaeo said, he and his colleague were following Palestinian militants through the center of Ramallah, suddenly an Israeli tank appeared from around the corner and shot his friend six times without warning. There was no  shooting or fighting in the area ...

The IDF spokesperson said it wasn't clear who had killed the journalist, he said there has been fire exchange several times in the same area.


Israeli Democratic Forces (occupation army) denying journalists the right to do their work.

The Palestinian journalist Ahmar Jaberi, on assignment for a U.S. TV channel, is being held by the IDF and at the same time being kicked by a settler from the democratic vanguard in the Middle East.

Palestinian journalist Tareq Al-Kayal for a german TV station and Ihmad Al-Said for Associated Press are being prevented from taking a picture of U.N. representative Terry Larson. He was stopped by orders of Colonel Noam Tivon and prevented from checking the situation at Khaled ben Al-Walid school, which had been occupied by the IDF and converted into a military post. During this incident Palestinian journalist Nasser Al-Shukhi (AP) was arrested, Kawther was beaten by the army.

Palestinian MP Abbas Zaki, U.N. representative Terry Larson and Colonel Noam Tivon. Mr. Larson was prevented by the IDF from visiting palestinian Area H2 under israeli control.

Kawther at the Halhul border post in Hebron, where a day before a child who had been involved in a car accident died. The child was being brought to the hospital when the IDFs at this post decided to "search" the car where he was being transported. After this incident Kawther and Mazen Dana (for Reuters) were arrested for troubling Shai Sanduri, the soldier in the background, who had caused the death of the child. This was in 1997 or 1998, during the peace time.

Kawther protesting against the sexual harassment she had to endure from of IDF soldiers.