The New York Times · 26 April 1984

CP-1984-050

ISRAELIS PUBLISH HIJACKING PHOTO

Print, This One Not Banned by Government, Shows Man Being Led From Bus

By DAVID K. SHIPLER

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JERUSALEM, April 25 — A leftist Israeli magazine, Haolam Hazeh, today became the first news organization here to publish a photograph of a man being led away alive from the hijacked bus in the Gaza Strip two weeks ago. The photograph is of extremely poor quality, too blurry for the faces to be identified.

It is a different picture, apparently showing a different man, from a key photograph taken by another publication, the newspaper Hadashot. The military censor has barred publication of the other, clearer photograph. Both photographs were taken after Israeli troops stormed the hijacked bus just before dawn on April 13.

The authorities said two hijackers were killed and the other two died on the way to the hospital. The barred Hadashot picture clearly shows a handcuffed man who has been identified by relatives and neighbors in the Gaza Strip as Majdi Abu-Jumaa, one of the four hijackers. No wounds are visible in the photograph.

The picture has led to questions in Israel about the possibility that one of the terrorists was killed by security forces after being captured. By contrast, the man in the photograph published today in Haolam Hazeh has not been identified. He is shown between groups of soldiers who appear to be holding or dragging him.

His head is bent forward and it cannot be determined whether he is wounded. At least two other Israeli photographers are understood to have photographed this unidentified man. One of them, Shmuel Rachmani, of the newspaper Maariv, said his picture, taken from the front, was of excellent quality and could easily be used to identify the man.

Israel Warns Correspondent JERUSALEM, April 25 (UPI) — The Israeli authorities complained to The New York Times correspondent in Israel Tuesday that he had violated military censorship in his coverage of a bus hijacking by Palestinian guerrillas. An announcement from the Government Press Office said that David K.

Shipler, bureau chief of The New York Times in Jerusalem, met with Morton Dolinsky, director of the Government office, at Mr. Dolinsky’s request. Mr. Shipler has reported growing indications that one of the hijackers was captured alive and then killed. The announcement said Mr.

Shipler “was informed that he had been in violation of military censorship, and the rules of censorship were reviewed with him.”

How this transcription was made

The folio strip gives the page and the edition letter but no date: it reads “A14” at the left and “L” at the right. Both datelines read “JERUSALEM, April 25,” and the hijacking is dated “April 13” and “two weeks ago” in the body, so a 26 April 1984 printing is consistent with Maria’s label, but the date itself is not on the page. — Both items complete as clipped. The second item is a separate UPI story under its own subhead and dateline, included here because it is on the same cut and is about the reporter whose byline sits at the top of it. — The main headline runs to two lines and its last word is trimmed at the right edge of the cut; the visible letters are “PHOTO” and the word is almost certainly “PHOTOS” or “PHOTO,” but I will not supply the letter. The deck is set between rules below it and is clipped at the right on its first line, where “by” is partly cut.

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