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11.09.08 - 14:32
Hebron / PNN – Israeli forces arrested two journalists working for the international news agency Reuters. The journalists were filming and interviewing for a story about Israeli confiscation of Palestinian land in the occupied West Bank’s southern district of Hebron.
In addition to arresting Reuters journalists Yusri Al Jamal and Mahmoun Wuzwuz, Israeli forces took several people whose land was being confiscated in Beit Ummar and Halhoul.
Al Jamal spoke with PNN via telephone from inside the Etzion Settlement bloc’s detention center. “The occupation forces came to the place where they were going to confiscate land. They watched us work for a while. We were conducting an interview with one of the residents whose land was going to be confiscated. When we finished we were walking back to our car. The occupation army told us to stop.”
The Israeli military is now telling reporters that the area is a closed military zone and none are allowed in. The soldiers confiscated tapes and equipment, and then told journalists that they were arresting residents who had given interviews.
http://english.pnn.ps/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=3518&Itemid=1
They are behaving in this "the only democracy in the Mid East" just like security polices in North Korea where ordinary citizens will get arrested if they speak with journalists! Great "democracy"!
:angryred:
Hebron / PNN – Israeli forces arrested two journalists working for the international news agency Reuters. The journalists were filming and interviewing for a story about Israeli confiscation of Palestinian land in the occupied West Bank’s southern district of Hebron.
In addition to arresting Reuters journalists Yusri Al Jamal and Mahmoun Wuzwuz, Israeli forces took several people whose land was being confiscated in Beit Ummar and Halhoul.
Al Jamal spoke with PNN via telephone from inside the Etzion Settlement bloc’s detention center. “The occupation forces came to the place where they were going to confiscate land. They watched us work for a while. We were conducting an interview with one of the residents whose land was going to be confiscated. When we finished we were walking back to our car. The occupation army told us to stop.”
The Israeli military is now telling reporters that the area is a closed military zone and none are allowed in. The soldiers confiscated tapes and equipment, and then told journalists that they were arresting residents who had given interviews.
http://english.pnn.ps/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=3518&Itemid=1
They are behaving in this "the only democracy in the Mid East" just like security polices in North Korea where ordinary citizens will get arrested if they speak with journalists! Great "democracy"!
:angryred: