stern reporter threatened by Israeli soldiers

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A reporter and a photographer star were threatened by Israeli soldiers last Friday while conducting research in the West Bank. Other media had previously reported similar actions against their journalists on site. Reporter Marina Klimchuk had been accompanying Palestinian farmers harvesting olives south of the city of Hebron when Israeli soldiers from the nearby settlement of Abigail surrounded them. Two Israeli peace activists and a Palestinian farmer were detained and their cell phones destroyed.

Also towards the star-According to the reporter, the soldiers behaved aggressively, threatened her with weapons and called her a “traitor” – even though Klimchuk identified herself as an accredited press representative. As the one for the star Working photographer Yoray Liberman tried to come to Klimchuk’s aid in his car, but the gun was also pointed at him. Marina Klimchuk finally managed to leave the place. “We cannot accept that our properly accredited reporters are threatened in their work,” comments the editor-in-chief of the star the incident.

Klimchuk and Libermann researched the violence perpetrated by Jewish settlers against Palestinians in the West Bank after the Hamas terrorist attack. As the research continued, Marina Klimchuk reports that her vehicle was followed by unknown civilians. When they finally stopped and confronted the pursuers, they were told: “Today you were in places where journalists are not allowed to be.” Throughout their research, Klimchuk were outside military restricted areas in publicly accessible areas.