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Israeli Occupations Forces Attack Four Journalists

Israeli occupation forces attacked three journalist while they were covering Baleen  weekly march on Friday 13/6/2014.The cameraman of France press ,Abbas  Momni, told MADA that journalists were covering the march faraway from protesters and Israeli occupation forces. However, three Israeli soldiers  who were stationed above the apartheid wall fired  rubber bullets and sound canisters directly towards  them. One of these bullets hit his small bag where camera lenses and memory cards are put. Mr.Momni  added:"My bag was holed , two memory cards and my journalism card were broken. My colleague, the cameraman of Palestine ,Fellesteen, TV ,Shamekh  Al-Jagoup, was injured in the leg by a gas canisters , and then he was transferred from the place  by an ambulance.".

 

The cameraman of the popular committee in Baleen was injured by a gas canister in his abdomen. A number of Israeli security forces attacked the cameraman Mu' mar Awad while he was covering the clashes in Jerusalem.Mr.Awad told MADA that he was severely  blackjacked, he was taken out of the journalist group ,transferring him to a hospital to receive treatment.

 

MADA condemns those extra attacks on journalists .