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Last update - 03:54 06/06/2008 IDF spokesman: Announce war casualties only once a day By Asaf Carmel, Haaretz Correspondent Tags: Israel, IDF  The IDF spokesman is proposing that in any future war, a single, official statement is issued each day, giving the number of soldiers and civilians killed or wounded. Spokesman Avi Benayahu will raise the suggestion, based on experience from the Second Lebanon War, at a special Press Council debate this afternoon. During the last war in Lebanon and other military operations, the censor frequently banned the media from reporting fatalities for several hours, until all the dead soldiers' family members had been notified. Advertisement But while Israeli television and radio broadcast vague reports of "heavy exchanges of fire," news of the fatalities usually leaked out via text messages, foreign media reports and Web sites. After the war, the Press Council set up a committee to draft ethical rules in war time. The committee, headed by council president Justice (ret.) Dalia Dorner, concluded that it was inappropriate to use publicly-understood codes to report that soldiers fell in battle before their families had been notified. "All the journalists we spoke to agreed that this could be avoided if all members of the media agreed to do so," the report said Bookmark to del.icio.us   Terrorist donuts U.S. Arabs irate over criticism of celebrity cook's kaffiyeh. All the way to hell Rosner's blog: It's Obama's good intentions that pro-Israel activists fear.   1.   This would not suffice for Mofaz`s ambitions... 23:54  |  Esther 06/06/08

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