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Guardian under fire over Gaza war reports

August 6, 2009 13:25

ByMarcus Dysch, Marcus Dysch

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The Guardian has clashed with a leading media monitoring group over its investigation into reports of war crime allegations during the conflicts in Gaza and Sri Lanka.

Just Journalism analysed five broadsheet newspapers’ reports of fighting between the IDF and Hamas, and between Sri Lankan government forces and Tamil Tiger separatists.

It found that the issue of whether war crimes had been committed was raised against Israel at “an emphatically higher rate” than against Sri Lanka.

It said that the Guardian had reported allegations against the IDF substantially more often than against Sri Lanka.