IMC coverage is highlighted in Brazilian newspaper

I am very sorry for my poor fucking English.
I mean "coverage" instead "cover up".
IMC is not hidding anything about Palestine, definitely.

Sincerely,

Latuff

"to cover up" means to hide
"to cover (a story)" means to report on it

Coverage of events means they are writing about them.

Your English is a hell of a lot better than my Portuguese, or Spanish for that matter.

My apologies to Latuff and other speakers of Portuguese - this is a *very* rough translation. Corrections welcomed:

[News site of Palestine]

The Israeli attack also encircles the press. Palestinian radio and TV has been bombed and reporters from other countries taken prisoner.


In the midst of a naturally precarious war, the Independent Medial Center (IMC) - one of the coordinators of the worldwide anti-globalization movement - maintains an open chanel with correspondents in Bethlehem. At the moment, 35 civilian observers from France, Belgium, Italy and Switzerland are writing along with landless [landless person or Landless Movement activist?] Mario Lill a local "fount of information". Mario has become the "Peter Arnett" of the national media. As in all wars, every side has to be evaluated under filters of ideologically-contaminated disinformation. The website http://www.midiaindependente.org as of this Tuesday night is being maintained nearly in real-time.

Stories of battle and some data on the shape and climate of Palestine come from colaborators of the IMC (most of whom are in the Star Hotel, encircled by ten tanks). There are no neutral sources in struggles between groups [classes], however the eloquence of the images of the Israeli attack on a Head of State and an autonomous region speak for themselves.

The freedom of press has been banned. For three weeks Palestinian TV and radio has been airing "retaliation of the terrorism of suicide-bombers". The house-to-house searches in the refugee camp of Dehaishe, the actions of the Caravan of Action for Peace in Beit Jala (under 58 tanks) have shown the Palestinian side. It has a story on the injury of Britons Aisa Kiysue, Kunle Ibidun, Chris Dunham, the Australian, Kate Irving, and the American Said Khulil. In the group were also two Palestinian journalists, also wounded.

Radio ERA 1 of Atenas has been an important news outlet for the voice of Archbishop Meletis, who is in Ramallah. The coordinator of the non-governmental organization Doctors Without Borders, Balsami (whose first name he did not divulge), says that the Israeli soldiers are stopping his physicians from tending to victims, detaining them and siezing their medical supplies. "This has never happened in the world. Even in the Nazi occupation the Red Cross was allowed to tend to victims" he declared on the IMC site.

Five Italian journalists have been confined with militant Palestinians in the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem, including a correspondent from Italian public radio and television, RAI. In the same city, the Palestinian Majdi Benoura, camera person for the television network Al-Jazira, was wounded in the neck while working.

[Without Clothes]
In Ramallah, three camera people (from Reuters, Middle East Broadcasting, and ANN) were made to take of their clothes in an inspection by Israeli soldiers. They were intimidated for filming soldiers intercepting ambulances. Fear is natural, because of the incident a month ago when Italian photographer, Raffaelli Cirello, was killed for pointing his camera at a tank.

More than 40 journalists have been injured since the beginning of the conflict (September 2000), most by Israeli forces. In Bethlehem, Palestinian guerrillas siezed video footage from the Reuters news agency after a reporting team had followed a suspect for a long time, who ended up dead in a parking lot.

Last weekend, Anthony Shadid, of the Boston Globe, and Carlos Handal, of Nile Television, were shot in Ramallah. Their colleague Alon Tuval of the Globe says that it was not clear where the shot came from except that it came from behind them. Handal was shot in the neck by Israeli soldiers, according to his colleague Ra'ed Hilu, who was with him at the time of the accident. Hilu affirmed that the car was well marked with large "TV" stickers.

[Journalists protest]
The Committee for the Protection of Journalists classified the "crisis of the freedom of press" in Palestine as critical. The Committee, based in New York, warns that Israel has arrested all professionals in Ramallah. "To arrest journalists in zones of conflict is censorship", claims the statement. The entity has also expressed its concern "for the apparent desire of Israel to stop the press from following with open eyes the activities in Ramallah"