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The three newscasts each chose its own angle on the continued fighting in the Gaza Strip, where the Palestinian death toll approaches 950 in 18 days. In that timespan 13 Israelis have been killed, CBS' Richard Roth told us. Roth covered the attempts of the Israel Defense Force to block Hamas' weapons supply routes. He showed us footage from the network of tunnels into the Gaza Strip from the Egyptian border town of Rafah, some as long as three-quarters of a mile. The IDF claims to have destroyed 200 of the 300 tunnels by aerial bombardment.
NBC's Richard Engel filed from Egypt, where tons of medical supplies are loaded onto trucks to be shipped into Gaza even as Israeli jets continued to bomb "just a few hundred yards away." Ceasefire talks are under way in Cairo, Engel reported, involving Saudi Arabia, with Israel joining in on Thursday. "Diplomacy is gaining momentum."
"Reporters are having real problems getting to the front line of this war," ABC's Simon McGregor-Wood (embargoed link) complained from Jerusalem. Yet lack of access has not resulted in a shortage of videotape. McGregor-Wood is offered Israeli battlefield video constantly via cellphone downloads even as his Gaza-based producer gets cellphone video offers from Hamas. Both sides post battle clips on YouTube; both sides use satellite TV news channel outlets to air soundbites in their "battle for public opinion."
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