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Israeli troops attack photographer
An Israeli journalist has been assaulted by troops after taking photos from a Palestinian family in the West Bank city of al-Khalil (Hebron). Tess Scheflan, a photographer on assignment for the Israeli daily Haaretz, was wounded lightly in her head and taken to hospital after being assaulted by an Israeli soldier in al-Khalil on Saturday, Haaretz reported. "Tess and I were walking around in Hebron...we went into the home of a Palestinian family, taken over by soldiers at the scene. We interviewed the family, which was forced to stay in one room, spoke them, and then we left the house and walked down an alley to leave the area," Fadi Edayat, another journalist who accompanied Tess, told Yediot Ahronot. According to Edayat, soldiers then tried to snatch their cameras. "He (the soldier) attempted to grab the camera of another photographer who was there with us; he walked up to him aggressively, and grabbed him by the neck. I asked Tess to photograph him so we can file a complaint, and then he punched her in the face. She fell down to the ground and he hit her again, this time with his gun butt," Edayat added. Al-Khalil has been the scene of violence for the past week while security forces were evacuating a disputed house in the city. Posted by: Fred 2008-12-07 |
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