A BBC journalist has been “stopped and assaulted” by the Israeli police, the company has mentioned.
Muhannad Tutunji, Haitham Abudiab, and the BBC Arabic crew have been making their technique to a resort in Tel Aviv on Thursday once they have been dragged from their automobile by the police, based on BBC Information.
Through the cease of their automobile, marked with purple “TV” tapethe information web site reported that the pair confirmed their press identification playing cards.
Mr Tutunji mentioned whereas filming the incident, his telephone was taken and thrown to the ground. He additionally claims he was hit on the neck.
On Friday, a BBC spokesperson mentioned: “One in every of our BBC Information Arabic groups deployed in Tel Aviv, in a automobile clearly marked as media, was stopped and assaulted final night time by Israeli police.
“Journalists should be capable of report on the battle in Israel-Gaza freely.”
The BBC has contacted the Israeli police for remark.
During the last week, Palestinian militants Hamas have launched an incursion into Israel.
The battle has claimed not less than 3,200 lives on either side and Israel has positioned the 25-mile Gaza Strip beneath siege and subjecting it to a torrent of retaliatory air strikes.
Reuters videographer Issam Abdallah has been killed and 6 journalists – together with reporters from Reuters and Al-Jazeera – have been injured following an Israeli shell in southern Lebanon on Friday based on the AP information company.
“We’re deeply saddened to inform you that our videographer, Issam Abdallah, has been killed,” the Reuters information company mentioned in a press release.
The shelling occurred throughout an trade of fireside alongside the Lebanon-Israel border between Israeli troops and members of Lebanon’s militant Hezbollah group.
In message to BBC workers, chief govt of BBC Information and Present Affairs Deborah Turness thanked these on the bottom “for the extraordinary braveness and care you’ve proven as we inform this stunning and complicated story”.
She added: “We now have supplied our international audiences with highly effective protection and first-hand testimony of the atrocities dedicated by Hamasand the horrible struggling in Gaza.”