Journalists Protest Israeli Investigation

Foreign journalists stationed in Israel have filed a protest against a police investigation of the French news agency Agence France-Presse, which has been accused of violating military censorship.

“The Foreign Press Assn. strongly protests the method of investigation used by the government of Israel,” the association said in a statement Sunday. The association, with about 190 members, said that Agence France-Presse reporters interrogated by the police were not given the chance “to contact an attorney, their nation’s embassy, the government press office or the Foreign Press Assn.”

Police investigated the French news service after it transmitted a story, without first submitting it a military censor, about an Arab guerrilla who flew a motorized hang-glider across the border into northern Israel. The guerrilla attacked an Israeli army outpost with an automatic rifle and grenades, killing six soldiers and wounding seven before he was slain.