The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) on Tuesday morning forced journalists working for Palestine satellite channel in the West Bank province of Jenin to delete video footage from a camera in their possession as they were making a report at Barta’a checkpoint.
Local sources told the Palestinian Information Center (PIC) that a television crew from the channel was covering the daily measures and restrictions pursued against Palestinian workmen seeking to enter the 1948 occupied lands through Barta’a checkpoint.
They added that the soldiers detained cameraman Sakher Zawatya and correspondent Mohamed Badarneh and questioned them in a small room for over an hour before releasing them later.
The Israeli army claimed that taking photographs is forbidden in the area which they described as a military zone.
