BBC journalists held at gunpoint by Israeli police

Muhannad Tutunji, Haitham Abudiab and their BBC Arabic team were driving to a hotel when their car was intercepted.

They were dragged from the vehicle - marked “TV” in red tape - searched and pushed against a wall.

A BBC spokesperson said journalists “must be able to report on the conflict in Israel-Gaza freely”.

Mr Tutunji and Mr Abudiab said they identified themselves as BBC journalists and showed police their press ID cards.

While attempting to film the incident, Mr Tutunji said his phone was thrown on the ground and he was struck on the neck.

“One of our BBC News Arabic teams deployed in Tel Aviv, in a vehicle clearly marked as media, was stopped and assaulted last night by Israeli police. Journalists must be able to report on the conflict in Israel-Gaza freely,” a BBC spokesperson said.

The BBC has contacted Israeli police for comment.

streetfestival,
@streetfestival@lemmy.ca avatar

This is terrifying, I’m glad the BBC published it

worldwidewave,

In so many ways, this attack was Israel’s 9/11. Evidently up-to-and including harassing peaceful Arabic people doing nothing suspicious.

tallwookie,

random arabs are Israel’s version of America’s sikhs I guess?

Crikeste,

Yepp! Now they get carte blanche to do their desired genocide and ethnic cleansing and media intimidation/narrative supplement.

EvilCartyen,

I mean, if they were looking to do a genocide I don’t think they’d bother to use precision strikes, warming knocker bombs, and tell civilians to flee.

Seems to me Hamas with their rhetoric of ending Israel and killing all Jews are the genocidal part. Don’t want to see what would happen if they had the military Israel has.

Make no mistake, Israel is still an apartheid state run by awful people, but this is not genocide. This is trying to minimize casualties in an urban combat situation.

NecoArcKbinAccount,
NecoArcKbinAccount avatar

you forgot the part where they bombed the only exit out.

dill,

The IDFs playbook seems awful bad at minimizing casualties.

bunnyfc,
bunnyfc avatar

That's up to history, sadly, whether it's genocide or not. Genocide has many characteristics, it's not only killing a population by guns or other means.

The definition of genocide does not care about the means, only about the goal or result.

NuPNuA,

Genocide seems to have lost any kind of definition in the modern age, just like nazi and fascist have over the last decade when they’re thrown at everything people don’t like.

AngrilyEatingMuffins,
AngrilyEatingMuffins avatar

Oh look, it’s a fascist complaining about accurate descriptions of fascism, defending genocide

So surprising

Can the admins finally nuke these fucks from orbit

NuPNuA,

Shouldn’t you have gone to the Hexbear/Lemmygrad side when the iron wall went up?

AngrilyEatingMuffins,
AngrilyEatingMuffins avatar

Shouldn’t you make like your leader you nazi fuck?

snek,
@snek@lemmy.world avatar

use precision strikes

These strikes are so precise that they now killed about 2k Gazans and around ten of the Israeli hostages. So precise.

warming knocker bombs

They said they would not roof knock this time although it seems international human rights orgs forced them to. Knocking does squat shit if you have around 5 minutes to leave.

and tell civilians to flee.

Then they bomb them while they flee. Or in the case of internationals, tell them to get to Rafah then leave them bretthless as they discover the Rafah checkpoint is still closed despite Biden’s best efforts and an Israeli promise.

Also they told civilians to flee within 24 hours, which many have said was impossible. They created panic and chaos, killed 70 of those people fleeing, then extended the deadline and demand that the hospitals evacuate and leave which the hospitals say is impossible.

Israel is drowning in war crimes now.

NoneOfUrBusiness,

While I don't know about precision strikes, they haven't been warning civilians before striking these past few days, and in fact many times designated an evacuation destination and bombed it. And don't get me started on the white phosphorus. They're definitely not avoiding civilian deaths (I mean why would you try to avoid the deaths of "human animals"). Oh, and I don't see how holding journalists at gunpoint has anything to do with minimizing casualties.

Israel has been genocidal for a while now, but they've been going full holocaust recently.

Milan,

They do that so they can justify it afterwards. Warnings dont do anything because the people in Gaza can’t leave and Israel knows this. It’s by design after all.

NuPNuA,

They’re not being told to leave Gaza as a whole, they’re being told to leave the urban areas where Hamas are holed up to avoid civillains caught in the crossfire.

AngrilyEatingMuffins,
AngrilyEatingMuffins avatar

One million people can’t move anywhere in 48 hours with no warning. And you know it. What a lying piece of shit you are, defending genocide.

NuPNuA,

Is it impossible for you to have a conversation without swearing at the other party, you’ve responded to me twice recently and in both instances you have been thoroughly unpleasant rather than raising any opposing arguments.

AngrilyEatingMuffins,
AngrilyEatingMuffins avatar

The genocidal Nazi is trying to pretend he’s the mature one. Die in a fire.

girlfreddy,

Tone policing instead of asking a question is worse.

NuPNuA,

It’s not tone policing to expect people to be able to hold a civilised conversation. Within a few replys that poster had sworn at me several times and accused me or being a fascist and a Nazi. I gave him a chance to talk to me like an adult, he declined so I blocked him.

dependencyInjection,

Do you take issue with people having uncivilised discussions, more so than you’re willing converse on Israel’s uncivilised and what essentially is looking like war crime actions?

Why should people be civilised and when you’re defending a government, that is orders of magnitude stronger than it’s enemy, is murdering innocent people as an act of revenge.

I find your outrage at the comments egregious and abhorrent.

Milan,

I know, but where are they supposed to go? The Gaza Strip is one of the most densely populated places on earth. Hamas is everywhere in Gaza. The initial deadline of 24 hours was even more impossible. These are not accidents, Israel knows this.

snek,
@snek@lemmy.world avatar

Israel has killed full Palestinian families in Gaza. This isn’t people “caught in the crossfire”. This is Israel bringing the crossfire to their beds and homes. This is Israel’s continuing ethnic cleansing.

NuPNuA,

Because Hamas would never think to slap a sticker on a car saying TV to get though checkpoints with bags of weapons would they?

snek,
@snek@lemmy.world avatar

Because Hamas would never think to slap a sticker on a car saying TV to get though checkpoints with bags of weapons would they?

This kind of talk is being used to excuse all sorts of attacks against the Press and Palestinian civilians.

Maybe Israel doesn’t want any press…

Jumi,

Nice whataboutism you got there, it would be a shame if that’s a bad way to lead an argument.

girlfreddy,

Please point to any white journalists that have been blown up, shot or pulled from vehicles by the Israeli army and you might have an argument.

As it stands you have none.

NuPNuA,

How many white members of Hamas do you think there are?

Arrakis,

Man are you still going? Maybe you should go outside for a walk or something, you’ve been on this soapbox of anger for days now.

girlfreddy,

I ask for proof and you ask a question in response.

You don’t seem to know how to carry on a conversation.

SheeEttin,

So every brown person is automatically Hamas now?

TheOctonaut,

Can I ask who it was that decided to make “Israel’s 9/11” the official slogon of the last week?

RealFknNito,
@RealFknNito@lemmy.world avatar

I’m so used to saying Nazi Germany that it feels weird to say Nazi Israel but here we are.

queermunist,
@queermunist@lemmy.ml avatar

European settler colony.

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