Israeli officials take down AP live shot of Gaza, US urges them to reverse block

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US urges Israel to reverse decision to seize AP equipment and block live Gaza footage, officials say
apnews.com

Original headline "Israeli officials seize AP equipment, citing new media law"

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I can't imagine what it must be like to be so morally bankrupt.

Clearly, they know that what they're doing in Gaza is evil, and they know that the only hope they have of evading the entirely justified condemnation of the rest of the world is to hide it.

History will not judge them kindly. No matter what they do, they're not going to be able to hide the evidence of their evil forever.

"The only democracy in the Middle East", Israel supporters say...

Ironically, Hitler would be proud.

Israel just needs some lebensraum but the lugenpresse keeps getting in the way.

New headline as of 3:12pm "Israeli communications minister orders return of seized camera equipment to AP"

losers

Ha! What a joke.

Here the link, but info mostly seems the same: https://apnews.com/article/live-transmission-israel-associated-press-57e8f662907334ba3599156276381190

[Update: whoops. no need. it was only an article update by them.]

Israel’s communications minister, Shlomo Karhi, said the defense ministry will undertake a review of news outlets’ positioning of live video of Gaza. Officials never told the AP the positioning of its live camera was an issue when they took it down earlier in the day.

Weak back pedaling