And Now, "TV" Terror?

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As the factional violence spread, Israeli aircraft bombed a Gaza building used by Islamic Jihad, wounding two people, after gunmen from the group infiltrated into Israel at a key border crossing on Saturday using an armored vehicle marked "TV."

In a statement, the Palestinian journalists' union criticized militants for placing a "TV" insignia on the vehicle they used to approach Gaza's border with Israel.

Militants' use of media markings, the union said, could turn journalists who use armored vehicles in the Gaza Strip into targets for Israeli attack.

Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said militants had tried to "take advantage of the special sensitivity that we have in a democratic country, such as ours, to the right of the media to operate freely and independently in security-sensitive areas."

Here are two reactions:-

The Palestinian journalists' union criticized militants on Sunday for using a vehicle marked with a "TV" sign to approach Gaza's border with Israel and attack an Israeli military position across the frontier.

"The use of vehicles that carry 'Press', 'TV' or other signs ... expose journalists' lives to danger, gives the Israeli occupation a pretext to target and kill journalists and restricts their ability to perform their professional and national duties," the Palestinian Journalist Syndicate said.

"We stress our rejection of the use of media vehicles and the involvement of the press in any existing conflict, and we demand all parties stop using these methods," said the group, the sole journalists' union in the Gaza Strip and West Bank.

Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, in broadcast remarks at the start of the weekly cabinet meeting in Jerusalem, said the gunmen had tried "to take advantage of the special sensitivity that we have in a democratic country, such as ours, to the right of the media to operate freely and independently in security-sensitive areas".

The Israel-based Foreign Press Association said in a statement the use of a vehicle marked with TV insignia represented "abuse of this recognized protection for the working journalist" and was "a grave development".

Will other media associations and journalists guilds respond? And how?