Meanwhile, international press groups are criticizing Palestinian militants from Islamic Jihad for storming an Israeli border checkpoint in a vehicle designed to look like a truck carrying journalists.

Simon McGregor-Wood, head of the Foreign Press Association: “This is a disaster for legitimate working journalists who work very hard with the Israeli authorities to import these vehicles so they can offer protection to journalists in hostile environments. Yesterday’s incident will undermine that whole process and will make any journalist traveling in a real armored vehicle in a conflict area worthy of the suspicion of the Israeli army or whomever else.”