BBC journalists held at gunpoint by Israeli police
BBC journalists held at gunpoint by Israeli police
A BBC Arabic team was driving to back to a hotel when they were stopped and dragged from their car.
Muhannad Tutunji, Haitham Abudiab and their BBC Arabic team were driving to a hotel when their car was intercepted.
They were dragged from the vehicle - marked "TV" in red tape - searched and pushed against a wall.
A BBC spokesperson said journalists "must be able to report on the conflict in Israel-Gaza freely".
Mr Tutunji and Mr Abudiab said they identified themselves as BBC journalists and showed police their press ID cards.
While attempting to film the incident, Mr Tutunji said his phone was thrown on the ground and he was struck on the neck.
"One of our BBC News Arabic teams deployed in Tel Aviv, in a vehicle clearly marked as media, was stopped and assaulted last night by Israeli police. Journalists must be able to report on the conflict in Israel-Gaza freely," a BBC spokesperson said.
The BBC has contacted Israeli police for comment.
In so many ways, this attack was Israel’s 9/11. Evidently up-to-and including harassing peaceful Arabic people doing nothing suspicious.
Yepp! Now they get carte blanche to do their desired genocide and ethnic cleansing and media intimidation/narrative supplement.
I mean, if they were looking to do a genocide I don't think they'd bother to use precision strikes, warming knocker bombs, and tell civilians to flee.
Seems to me Hamas with their rhetoric of ending Israel and killing all Jews are the genocidal part. Don't want to see what would happen if they had the military Israel has.
Make no mistake, Israel is still an apartheid state run by awful people, but this is not genocide. This is trying to minimize casualties in an urban combat situation.
Can I ask who it was that decided to make "Israel's 9/11" the official slogon of the last week?
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Because Hamas would never think to slap a sticker on a car saying TV to get though checkpoints with bags of weapons would they?
Nice whataboutism you got there, it would be a shame if that's a bad way to lead an argument.
Because Hamas would never think to slap a sticker on a car saying TV to get though checkpoints with bags of weapons would they?
This kind of talk is being used to excuse all sorts of attacks against the Press and Palestinian civilians.
Maybe Israel doesn't want any press...
This is terrifying, I'm glad the BBC published it
I'm so used to saying Nazi Germany that it feels weird to say Nazi Israel but here we are.