ISRAEL

Independent: Web of deceit lies behind death of a traitor to many masters by Robert Fisk

To the rest of the world, the bomb that wounded two Israeli soldiers on the Lebanese-Israeli border was just another example of Hizbollah "terrorism", a provocation that showed Hizbollah had – in Israel's words – "crossed a red line". Israel warned of retaliation. But the truth was quite different, and infinitely more sensational


Independent: Robert Fisk wins award for press freedom
12 December 2002
Robert Fisk, The Independent's Middle East correspondent, was one of six journalists to win the Association of Journalists of Rome Silver Microphone award last night in Rome.

The prize – awarded to foreign correspondents for the first time in the association's 125 years – is for "European journalists who defend freedom of the press". Among other reporters honoured was Robert Ménard, president of Reporters sans Frontières, the humanitarian organisation dedicated to the protection of foreign correspondents.