Also on Wednesday, the Israeli human rights group B’Tselem, - TopicsExpress



          

Also on Wednesday, the Israeli human rights group B’Tselem, which monitors conditions in the Palestinian territories, said that the state radio network had refused to broadcast a public service announcement in which the names of Palestinian children killed in the Gaza offensive were read aloud. Sarit Michaeli, a spokeswoman for the group, said in an email that “Israeli media avoids reporting anything other than” the number of Palestinians killed in Gaza. To humanize the victims, she wrote, “we approached Israeli Radio in order to buy ads listing the names of these children. The radio refused us, claiming that these adverts were ‘politically controversial.’ But the refusal to give these dead children names is not a neutral act. It is a way of silencing public debate in Israeli society about the terrible civilian death toll in Gaza.”
Posted on: Thu, 24 Jul 2014 06:58:16 +0000

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