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A truce cant come soon enough. In rafah, one more day of harrowing loss. Palestinians mourn for 14 members of the abu ansa family, most women and children. They were victims of israeli air strikes, according to Hospital Officials and gazas civil defence. There were about 35 people in the house, says farouk abu ansa. Most were children. There were no fighters. The house collapsed on them, three or four storeys. Imad cannot reach his son. He is still under there, he says. And My Brother In Law was killed, with his two children, born after years of ivf. And after five months of israeli bombardment, this is the new landscape of gaza. In israel, it has been five months of anguish for families of the hostages. They need to be released now. This weekend, they have been pleading again with their government to do a deal and get their loved ones home. Ofer is a very warm person. ....
To the press, and they had some very light media training, you know, just teaching them how not to get tripped up. And if you can imagine, the press are kept outside the campus in this huge line and are let in at a certain time. You have 100 journalists swarming this encampment, and you have six or seven students just trying to field all these requests, journalists fighting over them. So that was one of the things that they learned from 68, wasjust this discipline of message, making sure they say the right things and their words couldnt be twisted. I saw that some high profile journalists in america have been criticising the protesters for not speaking to media outlets. It sounds to me like it was easy for you to speak to the people whod been designated, but you couldntjust go around asking other students to talk to you. Or did you try that . I wonder what your take is on what people are saying about that. I was turned down a couple of times, but its completely understandable. Any sort ....
I imagine you may have seen the photos of the extraordinary outfits worn by many celebrities. Well talk to one journalist about the challenges of covering it. Lets start with the Campus Protests in the us. Reporting them is creating a challenge for us journalism, and were going to talk it through with journalists whove been on the ground. But before we meet them, lets remind ourselves whats been unfolding over the past month. So, these protests started at Columbia University in new york in mid april. According to a bbc tally, there have now been demonstrations at nearly 140 colleges across 45 states and washington, dc, too. According to the ap news agency, around 2,500 people have been arrested at campuses across the us. And the protesters are demanding a number of things, including that their colleges financially divest from israel. Now, in some locations, police have ....