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December 14, 2012

Israeli Soldiers Attack Journalists in Hebron 
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In Israel and the Occupied Territories, Israeli troops have attacked two
journalists with the news service Reuters as they covered the aftermath
of the fatal shooting of a Palestinian boy. Camera operators Yousri Al
Jamal and Ma'amoun Wazwaz were on their way to the Hebron military
checkpoint where Israeli troops had shot the boy dead when they were
stopped by an Israeli military vehicle. According to their account, the
Israeli soldiers punched them, forced them to strip in the street, and
then fired off a tear gas canister. Wazwaz was overcome by the tear gas
fumes and treated in a local hospital. Two other Palestinian journalists
working for local outlets were also stopped and accosted.

 

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