agricola
a genuine importer of owls
not that shooting journalists seems to be problematic for the IDF estimated to have killed 126 Palestinian media workers in four months.
The idf can guarantee it will shoot fleeing hostages let alone foreign (and indeed Palestinian) journos
Indeed, and of course this is something that Bowen knows from personal experience:
The pivotal moment in his career - "in my life", he corrects - was the Israeli tank attack on the Mercedes car in which he and two colleagues were travelling through southern Lebanon in 2000. At the moment of the attack, Bowen and his cameramen Malek Kanaan were a short distance away doing a piece to camera. Their fixer and driver Abed Takkoush had remained in the vehicle to make a phone call to his son.
With the car in flames, the tank's machine gun prevented Bowen from going to his friend's aid. "I felt like a coward," he writes. "I decided I could not save him and that I had to save myself. The ending was not happy. Life is not a film."