Citing safety concerns, the Israeli military has barred foreign journalists’ access to Gaza, defying a mandate last week from the Israeli Supreme Court ordering that a small number of international journalists be allowed into Palestine. Yet despite its supposed safety concerns, Israel allowed relief organizations to deliver 80 truckloads of emergency supplies during a 3-hour cease-fire on Wednesday. Daniel Seaman, director Israel’s Press Office, asserted that opening the border would pose unnecessary danger, but also argued that Hamas would use the grisly images to wage a public relations war, commenting, “Any journalist who enters Gaza becomes a fig leaf and front for the Hamas terror organization, and I see no reason why we should help that.” After being denied access day after day, The Foreign Press Association made this statement on Tuesday: “The unprecedented denial of access to Gaza for the world’s media amounts to a severe violation of press freedom and puts the state of Israel in the company of a handful of regimes around the world which regularly keep journalists from doing their jobs.”