PARIS, Aug 28: The Palestinian Journalists’ Syndicate has issued a ban on local and foreign journalists taking pictures of children carrying weapons or wearing military uniforms.
The union, announcing the measure on Tuesday, said that such pictures were “a flagrant violation of the rights of children.”
The measure is being strongly protested by a number of international rights organizations, notably Paris-based Reporters Sans Frontieres.
RSF Secretary General Robert Menard has called the ban “a misguided way to protect children aimed at misinforming the world about the real situation in the occupied territories.”
