Israel accuses reporters of siding with Palestinians

For CNN Correspondent Michael Holmes, who arrived in Israel just a week ago, it was the "most extraordinary" news conference of what he said was a twenty-five year journalistic career.

Holmes, together with several other correspondents and photographers, had accompanied a group of pro-Palestinian activists who had come to Ramallah to express solidarity with Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat. "About 40 or 50 Palestinian and international peace protesters," Holmes reported, "marched down the street to one of the entranceways into the compound, walked straight past some armored personnel carriers and tanks, and walked straight toward Yasser Arafat's compound."

Holmes and the other journalists tagged along. "We followed, and as we did, Israeli troops fired warning shots. The group did not stop. They marched straight in, past Palestinian gunmen at the entrance to Yasser Arafat's office building, walked straight past the Palestinian gunmen who seemed shocked and surprised and not a little pleased to see everybody."