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MADA: new attack on Palestinian journalists by the settlers

The Palestinian Center for Development and Media Freedoms (MADA) expresses strong condemnation of the new attack carried out by the Jewish settlers on Router’s download film

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agency cameraman Hassan Teeti and photographers Abdul Rahim Qusini, yesterday afternoon in Eraq Burin village (Nablus), while they were covering the march for the people of the village, to protest the attempts by settlers to seize hundreds of acres of their land.

 Teeti, who is also a correspondent for Al Jazeera television said that they were covering the march of the people of the village when he was attacked by three settlers, one of them tried to grab the camera, which led to his suffering a slight wound in his right hand, and another one attacked Qusini, while one Israeli occupation soldier attacked his assistant Ashraf Abu Shawish, as the soldiers demanded them to move away from the place.
 
The settlers used to attack Palestinians and their property, and journalists for several decades, in last October they attacked five cameramen and photographers in the Hebron area.