The Israeli army has seized press cards from 17 foreign journalists who are covering the stand-off between the army and a number of armed Palestinians, who are holed up in Bethlehem’s Church of the Nativity.
The BBC lodged a protest with the Israeli government yesterday after its Middle East correspondent, Orla Guerin, was pinned down by Israeli fire while filming a demonstration in the West Bank.
The BBC’s world news editor, Jonathan Baker, has joined the chorus of condemnation of the Israeli authorities after reporter Orla Guerin was rounded on by government troops.
Israeli troops have thrown stun grenades at a convoy of 25 foreign journalists and consficated some of their identity cards during a confrontation in the West Bank.
The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) condemns in the strongest terms Israel’s destruction today of the Palestinian Broadcasting Corporation building in the West Bank city of Ramallah.
In a 24 January 2002 letter to Minister Tzippi Livni, CPJ expressed deep concern about the Government Press Office’s (GPO) failure to renew the accreditation of Palestinian journalists.
In a 13 March 2002 letter to Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, IPI strongly condemned the Israeli army’s most recent attacks on journalists and media outlets in the city of Ramallah.
The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) is gravely concerned that Israeli forces opened fire on a hotel housing numerous journalists near the West Bank city of Ramallah.
The International Federation of Journalists today blamed a persistent “failure of discipline and disregard of international law” by the Israeli authorities for the killing of an Italian journalist and the wounding of a French colleague in the Palestinian territories today.