During one of the group workshops for Israeli and Palestinian journalists in Amman, the facilitators asked us to talk about professional dilemmas. We split up into national groups and chose three people from each group to make a brief presentation about representative dilemmas each had experienced. Then we came back into one large group to listen to the stories and discuss our reactions.

One of the Palestinian journalists, a cameraman who works for an international Arab television new station, told the following story:

During the IDF invasion of the West Bank in 2002, the cameraman happened to be filming a street scene when a group of militants (Islamic Jihad? Al Aqsa Martyrs' Brigade? I can't remember which one) grabbed a teenage boy they accused of collaborating with the Israelis. They stuffed him into a car and sped off to a nearby refugee camp. The cameraman jumped into his own car and followed them. It was quite dark by then, so he managed to stay out of sight.

Once in the refugee camp, the militants stopped in an open lot. They dragged the boy, whose hands were by then tied behind his back, out of the car, forced him onto his knees and prepared to shoot him.

The cameraman was filming the entire incident from behind a pile of rubble.

The boy was crying. He begged the militants to allow him one phone call; he wanted to call his mother to tell her he loved her.

The militants refused and prepared to shoot the boy in the back of the head. Just as they aimed their guns, the crying boy screamed out, "Mom, I love you!"

Then they shot him.

So here was the dilemma the cameraman faced. If he broadcast that footage, he would have to live with the knowledge that the mother of the dead boy had seen it. She would never be able to forget the image of her crying son, pleading to be allowed to tell his mother that he loved her just before he died. She would never forget the image of those masked armed men, of seeing her son's lifeless body flop sideways to the ground.

The cameraman, who had several children and a wife to support, would also have to worry about the militants hunting him down and shooting him for broadcasting the footage.

On the other hand, if the cameraman did not broadcast the footage, he would be hiding the truth about summary executions from the public.

So what would you do? And what do you think the cameraman did?