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Accused of being a spy – TRT Haber reporter attacked by Israeli man (VIDEO)

The TRT Haber crew was attacked while working in Tel Aviv and accused of being spies for Hamas and Hezbollah. (Photo: Videograb)

By Palestine Chronicle Staff

The TRT Haber crew was attacked while working in Tel Aviv and accused of being spies for Hamas and Hezbollah.

A TRT Haber team was attacked in Tel Aviv on Wednesday while reporting on the aftermath of Iran's missile attack on the city on Tuesday evening.

Footage of the incident shows an Israeli cyclist harassing the television correspondent while he was working and accusing him of being a spy for the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas and the Lebanese resistance party Hezbollah.

“You are a spy. “You are a spy for Hamas and Hezbollah,” the Israeli repeatedly told the television reporter.

The reporter tried endlessly to convince the Israeli man that he worked for an accredited news agency and that he was only trying to do his job in accordance with the law and not to film military areas or other areas where filming was prohibited is, but from the man who refused to listen to reason.

“You are spreading lies, I saw you,” the Israeli cyclist told the reporter while urging him to return to Türkiye.

The television reporter frantically asked the man to leave so he could continue his work, but the Israeli showered him with curses.

Not a premiere

According to the TV channel, this is not the first time that a TRT journalist has been attacked by Israelis.

TRT said that the Israeli occupation authorities “previously deliberately hindered the work of correspondents of the TRT network, including (TRT Arabic), during their work in the Gaza border areas and within the Green Line, and threatened some of them with death.”

The Turkish Foreign Ministry in August condemned Israel's attack on Mohammad al-Zeineen, a TRT Arabi cameraman who sustained an eye injury when the Israeli occupation army shelled a car near a tent for journalists at Nasser Hospital in Khan Yunis.

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The ministry viewed the attack as “an attempt by bloodstained Israel to hide the truth.”

“We stand in solidarity with all journalists who work tirelessly to make Israel’s oppression known to the world,” the ministry wrote in a statement on X, Anadolu News Agency reported.

In early June, the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and the Palestinian Journalists Syndicate (PJS) jointly condemned the attack by right-wing illegal Israeli settlers on a Palestinian journalist and other local and foreign journalists at the June 5 “Nationalist Flag March” in the Old City of occupied Jerusalem.

“The attacks during the nationalist flag parade are despicable and must be thoroughly investigated. “The Israeli police must take further action to protect journalists, especially Palestinian journalists, ensure that perpetrators are punished and end the climate of impunity in Israel,” IFJ deputy general secretary Tim Dawson said at the time.

Systematic targeting

Since the Gaza genocide began on October 8, Israel has targeted media outlets. Al-Jazeera's ban in Israel in May, followed by the closure of its Ramallah office in the occupied West Bank in September, is another example.

Palestinian journalists in the Gaza Strip have been systematically attacked by the Israeli occupying army as the war rages.

According to the Ministry of Health in the Gaza Strip, a total of 173 Palestinian journalists have been killed and more than 190 others injured, while 87 media facilities have been destroyed since the start of Israel's genocidal war against the Gaza Strip.

This was met with widespread opposition from various international organizations that called for protection for Palestinian journalists.

Palestinian journalists killed in Gaza – RSF stages “flash protests” in 10 countries

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) organized “flash protests” in 10 countries around the world in late September to remember Palestinian journalists killed during the nearly year-long genocide in the besieged Gaza Strip.

The non-governmental organization (NGO) said in a statement on September 26 that the protests were organized to commemorate the over 130 Palestinian journalists killed by the Israeli occupation army, “of whom 32 were murdered while working.”

The “flash protests” took place throughout the day on Thursday in Germany, Brazil, Spain, the United States, Britain, France, Senegal, Switzerland, Taiwan and Tunisia.

RSF announced that the goal of the “global awareness campaign” is to “make the international public aware of the seriousness of this crisis: the alarming rate at which these journalists are being killed endangers the right to free and independent information.”

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“The massacre of journalists in Gaza must end. “The Israeli army’s elimination of journalists in Gaza – over 130 killed in less than a year – threatens to lead to a total media blackout in the blockaded enclave,” said RSF Director General Thibaut Bruttin.

“These attacks target not only the Palestinian press, but also the international public’s right to reliable, free, independent and pluralistic information from one of the most closely watched conflict zones in the world,” he added.

Bruttin concluded: “Protection for journalists in the Gaza Strip, an end to impunity and that foreign journalists be granted access to the Gaza Strip. Our right to information is at stake.”

(The Palestine Chronicle)

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