On Wednesday afternoon, CNN broadcast a report on the difficulties of Palestinians in Khan Yunis as a result of the Israeli security forces closure of the main road linking two halves of the Gaza Strip. The CNN report showed the difficulties of Gaza residents in visiting medical facilities, seeing relatives, and moving produce. It included moving footage of parents and children traipsing along the dusty side roads. The CNN reporter was Rula Amin, clearly a Palestinian, and clearly sympathetic to their plight. That's all right.
Reporters are human.
People are leaving work earlier, closing their businesses earlier, to avoid traveling home during the dark. Alon Shvut has taxed its local residents to gather funding to purchase emergency medical equipment, because they cannot be sure that residents will be able to travel to hospitals during emergencies. Residents are unable to plan outings to visit children and grandchildren in the center of the country, or feel easily about inviting them out to the Gush. The same is true of shopping trips to the city's malls. If this was an isolated incident, one would not nit-pick.