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As Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu prepares to visit the United States, the long-ignored Israeli-Palestinian conflict is finally resurfacing on the networks' news agenda. After a spasm of coverage last summer (here, here and here), Israel's construction of settlements on occupied territory is attracting attention once more. NBC's Andrea Mitchell covered the announcement of a real estate project in the Arab neighborhoods of East Jerusalem during the visit of Vice President Joe Biden. When Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton decried the development, NBC's Mitchell and ABC's Martha Raddatz reported on that spat. Now NBC's Tom Aspell tells us about street protests in Hebron and a police crackdown on Moslem worship in Jerusalem: "The Israelis have restricted access to the holy places inside the walls of Old Jerusalem. Those under the age of 50 must pray outside."
The day's coolest Palestinian pictures were filed by ABC's Simon McGregor-Wood from the smuggling tunnels that supply the Gaza Strip while Israel enforces an overland blockade. "They say they can get the people of Gaza anything they want from Egypt," McGregor-Wood reported as he was lowered underground by rope, sitting on a makeshift swing. He showed us a shipment of chocolate cookies and "on this night, a special delivery, six sheep, a bit dazed and confused but OK. They did say they could get anything."
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