>Since the morning, a massive propaganda campaign is mounted in the Israeli
>governmental media covering the army's invasion and re-occupation of the
>Palestinian city of Tul Karm and its adjacent refugee camps. Prime time TV
>audiences were treated to footage of well-behaved soldiers, following strict
>orders to avoid harm to the civilian population.
>Such was in particular the tendency of the reportage - if that is the correct
>term - by Ron Ben Yishai, First Channel TV correspondent who was chosen by
>the
>IDF spokesman to accompany the forces enetering Tul-Karm. In his
>reportage, in the Nine
>O'clock News Ben Yishai made a short reference to "armed Palestinians
>trying to escape in
>ambulances" - a very criptic reference for ordinary Israelis with no
>access to alternative
>sources of information. Ben Yishai apparently knew about what we heard
>from Palestinian
>contacts - the army's shooting at Palestinian ambulances, in two seperate
>incidents at
>Tulkarm today, in each case killing medical crew members and wounding others.
>At this moment, the Tel-Aviv-based Physicians for Human Rights are trying
>to get the
>military to let the surviving ambulance crews - and the other wounded
>Palestinians, to whom the ambulances were trying to get in the first place -
>evacuated to a hospital where they could get urgently-needed medical help.