U.S. warns on travel to Israel, Palestinian areas

The United States issued a fresh travel warning for Israel and the Palestinian territories on Friday to include American journalists and aid workers after a spate of violence and political instability.

In a notice that superseded a warning issued on Jan. 17, the State Department urged U.S. citizens to be mindful of security when considering travel to Israel, to defer trips to the West Bank and avoid all travel to the Gaza Strip. Reuters

Translation: the US and Israel don't want Americans seeing - and perhaps recording - what is about to unfold in Gaza. Israelis continually violate the human rights of Palestinians: they just hate getting caught at it, and having those images spread around the world.