Border Patrol Fired at Reporters, Video Shows. Haaretz [Israeli newspaper] May 17, 2001 "A videotape broadcast worldwide last night of a shooting incident at the Ayosh junction during [Arab] Nakba day demonstrations clearly shows an Israeli Border policeman shooting directly at a group of reporters, wounding a French TV reporter who, if not for his flak jacket, might have been mortally wounded." Foreign Press: Israel Ignoring IDF [Israel Defense Forces] Shooting of Reporters. Haaretz [Israeli newspaper] May 25, 2001 "The Israeli government is refusing to deal with [the shooting of reporters by the Israeli army, says Howard Goller, chairman of the Foreign Press Association] ... Twenty foreign correspondents in the West Bank and Gaza have been shot at and hit with live ammunition or rubber-coated bullets since the start of the [Palestianian uprising]." Protest Letter. Israel and the Occupied Territories. Journalist Injured in Ramallah. Reporters Without Boundaries. May 15, 2001 "This is the fourth journalist to be shot and injured in 2001 during confrontations between Palestinian demonstrators and Israeli soldiers. Close to forty media professionals have been shot by Tsahal [Israeli Defense Forces] in the last three years."