HAMAS' "DIGNIFIED" TREATMENT OF MEDIA

Dignified Treatment, Hamas-Style (CAMERA)

Hamas men detained and roughed up journalists at a Fatah protest in Gaza today

The Associated Press reports Hamas harassed and detained local and foreign journalists today at a protest by Fatah supporters:

When several Hamas security men roughed up a Reuters TV cameraman filming the protest and tried to confiscate his camera, protesters surrounded the Hamas men, beat them to the ground and prevented the cameraman's arrest . . .

The Hamas men also detained a photographer working for Agence France Press and a cameraman for the Russian TV channel Russia Today, along with the two other reporters working for local news outlets. They also broke a TV camera belonging to the Arabic-language TV network al-Arabiya.

And that, my friends, is Hamas' own unique style of treating journalists "with dignity," as promised by Hamas spokesman Mousa Abu Marzook in the Los Angeles Times July 25, 2007.