’Israeli’ Forces Attack Journalist in Occupied Al-Quds

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An RT Arabic TV crew was attacked by "Israeli" police while covering an event in Occupied Al-Quds. Although the journalists had all documents permitting them to cover the event, the police prevented them from going live.

"After a terrible time we had to pass through check points that they erected everywhere along the Old City, they asked us to move away from the Damascus gate point. They didn't do it gently, they pushed us and broke our camera," RT Arabic reporter Dalia Nammari said.

Further, the reporter added that other journalists covering the event were treated the same "brutal" way by the Zionist police.

Dalia Nammari and the cameraman Muhammad Aishu were filming the event, which they had been accredited to, when the police interfered with their work and took away the camera.

However, the crew continued to report from the scene using a smart phone and going on air live via Skype, when the police attacked them again.

Brutal attacks by "Israeli" law enforcement were "rare to be filmed, but not rare to happen," Sarit Michaelli of the so-called ""Israeli" info center for human rights" said.

On Saturday, a Palestinian journalist suffered at the hands of the Israeli army, being shot in the eye with a rubber bullet. The photojournalist was taking pictures during a march to commemorate Nakba, or Catastrophe Day, when Palestinians were displaced in the creation of the Zionist entity.

"This is a usual behavior for the "Israeli" army against journalists and against peaceful non-violent Palestinian demonstrators," Mustafa Barghouti, General Secretary of the Palestine National Initiative declared.

"During the last attack on Gaza less than a year ago the "Israeli" army killed 18 journalists including an Italian journalist in their attack on the Palestinian people. So this violation of the freedom of expression and violation of the right of journalists to cover what happens is a frequent behavior of the "Israeli" army which respects nobody," Barghouti said.

Last year, Zionist forces raided a building in Ramallah where the offices of several media outlets were located.

Accordingly, the troops broke down the doors of the offices, destroyed some of the equipment and confiscated records.

Source: News Agencies, Edited by website team