(RSF/IFEX) – In a letter to Israeli Minister of the Interior Eli Yishai, RSF protested the attack on Palestinian journalists Hossam Abou Alan, Mazen Dana and Nael Shiyoukhi, which was committed by Israeli settlers in Hebron. Robert Ménard, RSF’s secretary-general, called on the minister “to ensure that an inquiry is immediately opened into the incident […]
(RSF/IFEX) – In a letter to Israeli Minister of the Interior Eli Yishai, RSF protested the attack on Palestinian journalists Hossam Abou Alan, Mazen Dana and Nael Shiyoukhi, which was committed by Israeli settlers in Hebron. Robert Ménard, RSF’s secretary-general, called on the minister “to ensure that an inquiry is immediately opened into the incident and that measures are taken against the assailants.” RSF recalled that in July 2000, five other Palestinian journalists were beaten up by Israeli settlers in Hebron.
On 10 March 2001, according to information obtained by RSF, Agence France-Press photographer Abou Alan, Reuters TV cameraman Dana, and Reuters TV sound technician Shiyoukhi were covering the Jewish carnival in Hebron when they were attacked by Jewish settlers. The journalists were only slightly injured.
On 15 July, Amar Jabari, cameraman for the American television station ABC News, Loury Abou Aitel, photographer with Reuters agency, Mazen Dana, cameraman with the same agency, Naji Dana, cameraman with the French channel TF1, and Kaweser Salam, journalist with the Palestinian daily “Al Hayat al-Jadida”, were beaten up by settlers, while reporting on a protest in Hebron (see IFEX alert of 9 March 2001). Several journalists had to be hospitalised.
